Brian Dillon
UR-NOW The Ruins of the Contemporary artists' and curator's talk

Sea Cadets Hall
14:30-16:00 Saturday 19 June

Brian Dillon will discuss the ideas and issues raised in the film programme with a number of the artists, including Bernd Behr and Tom Dale. 'The UR-NOW' is a selection of film works that deal with different sorts of ‘anachronism’. At the same time, it may be said that these works circle round the timeframe conjured by the category of the ruin. This event, on the Biennale’s opening day, will introduce the film programme as a whole, before moving on to a discussion between the Dillon, Behr and Dale about ruins, time, failure and comedy, and how these ideas reflect on their own practices.

Brian Dillon is AHRC Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Kent, where he is working on a research project entitled Ruins of the 20th Century. He is the author of Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives(Penguin, 2009), which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize andIn the Dark Room(Penguin, 2005), which won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. He is UK editor ofCabinetand his writing appears regularly in theGuardian, theLondon Review of Books,Artforum,frieze,Tate Etc. andArt Review. He is on the faculty of the London Consortium and has taught or lectured at Trinity College Dublin, Goldsmiths, the Royal College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. His novel,Sanctuary, will be published by Sternberg Press in 2010.