Three Uses of the Knife. International workshop on art writing and criticism. Day 3 

Friday, 6th November
Auditorium of the National Gallery of Art, Konstitucijos Ave. 22 

"Three Uses of the Knife" is a series of bi-weekly meetings with experienced writers, editors, critics and thinkers. It is intended for young writers in the beginning of their careers, for young editorial initiatives, for artists interested in writing and publishing, as well as for the speakers, who were invited to revisit the genres, forms, functions and strategies of contemporary art writing and criticism. The title of the series is borrowed from David Mamet's book "Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama".

The third meeting takes place at the NDG Auditorium Friday 6 November. Please note that location has been changed recently as the event was intended to take place at the Reading Room of the Contemporary Art Centre instead.  

Programme:

10.00-12.30
Will Holder conducts a workshop (on the relation between text and the labour of watching, reading and listening) with works by John Baldessari, Chris Mann, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Gertrude Stein and Alvin 'Youngblood' Hart, Sharon Jones, amongst others.

12.30
Lunch

13.30
Video conference from Istanbul with writer and filmmaker Jalal Toufic. 

2.30-17.00
Will Holder presents a programme (on the relation between text and the labour of the viewer, reader and listener) of works by Robert Ashley, Samuel Beckett, Umberto Eco, Jan Maus and Adam Pendleton, amongst others.

Will Holder is editor of F.R.DAVID, a journal concerned with the position of reading and writing in the arts (published twice-yearly by de Appel, Amsterdam). He co-curated Talk Show at the ICA in May 2009, an exhibition and season of events concerning speech; is currently editing and designing a biography of American composer Robert Ashley in the form of operatic notation (together with Alex Waterman); and rewriting William Morris' "News from Nowhere (An epoch of rest)" (1876) into a guide for design education and practise set in 2135.

Please find more information about the events and their participants here.
Please register for the events you will be attending; you will find a registration form at www.3-uses-of-the-knife.lt/en or at the venue of each event just before the programme begins.

Admission is free. All talks are in English.