Frieze

Carroll Dunham (Artist) & James Rondeau (President and Eloise W. Martin Director, Art Institute of Chicago) in conversation.

What place does contemporary art have in historical museums – and vice versa? An international panel of museum curators and directors will consider both the opportunities and pitfalls of mixing up the art of different eras.

Philippe Parreno (artist) & Nancy Spector (Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Brooklyn Museum) in conversation.

Lee 'Scratch' Perry is a legendary musician and producer, and is widely regarded as one of the godfathers of reggae and dub.

What can art do in times of emergency? We invite all Frieze London visitors to this special summit to debate the question.

How do artists use the fluidity of identity and performative languages to navigate in larger social and institutional structures?

Omar Kholeif, Fatima al Qadiri, Pablo León del la Barra and Adelita Husni-Bey debate the role of borders – and how the arts can traverse them – in our current political climate.

What has changed since the year that frieze magazine was born in London in 1991? How far has the contemporary art world come since the decade of the YBAs, and what was it really like to be on the ground in London at the time?

Artists will debate the social and communal aspects of borders.

Moderated by writer Louisa Buck, Nathalie de Gunzburg and James Meyer discuss their interest in art from 1960 to the present.

Los Angeles-based novelist, television writer, philanthropist and collector Maria Arena Bell shares her journey as a collector with writer and The Art Newspaper contributing editor Louisa Buck.

Jill Snyder (MOCA Cleveland), Terrie Sultan (Parrish Museum) and Heidi Zuckerman (Aspen Art Museum) discuss their experiences commissioning spaces.

Jacob Proctor, an advisor to the Frame & Focus sections for young galleries at Frieze New York, collector Marty Eisenberg, curator Anne Ellegood and advisor Rob Teeters discuss their experience of navigating and collecting works from young talents.

Joanne McNeil chairs a panel discussion considering new and emerging issues related to the ownership, circulation, copyright, and authenticity of forms and images.

Art-historian and critic Hal Foster and poet and novelist Ben Lerner discuss the use of artifice versus reality in recent art and fiction, and their hatred of poetry and painting.

frieze co-editor Dan Fox speaks to Turner-prize winning artist Mark Leckey about his life, work and love of music.

Artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan and musician Holly Herndon discuss their shared interests in sound and surveillance.

Do curators have to be art historians? Jens Hoffmann, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Michelle Grabner, Emiliano Valdés and Beatrice von Bismark discuss.

Omar Kholeif chairs a panel discussion with three artists whose practices subvert and problematize entrenched notions of how the body is mediated through human-made technologies.

Script by Mario Garcia Torres (artist, Mexico City) & Aaron Schuster (Fellow, ICI, Berlin); performed by Stephen Campbell Moore (actor, London) at Frieze London 2007