The Copyists

One day Symposium at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. Recent acts of republication are the starting point for this symposium, which brings together artists, writers, curators and publishers. Contributors include, Michael Bracewell, David Campany, Sarah Dobai, Tom McCarthy and Jo Melvin. The Copyists aimed to reflect on contemporary artistic & curatorial practices relationship to re-enactment, authorship and re-appropriation These concerns, highlighted by the current prevalence of artists’ use and re-use of existing cultural material, were addressed in conversations, papers and presentations from the following: Michael Bracewell who has written on the re-make in artist’s publishing and popular music . http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/editions_of_you_1/ Tom McCarthy’s whose novel Remainder (2007) addressed the hunger for the real, memory and re-enactment. He has recently written on realism and representation in literature in The London Review of Books: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n24/tom-mccarthy/writing-machines David Campany (University of Westminster) has written widely on photography and film. Recent titles include: Walker Evans: The Magazine Work, Jeff Wall Picture for Women, Photography and Cinema (Reaktion Books) and The Cinematic (Whitechapel Documents Series). http://davidcampany.com Jo Melvin – CCW Reader and now Professor has been investigating the interconnections between the archives of artists’, critics, museums, galleries and magazines from the 1960s to the present day since the early 90s. Through her work with Studio International, Flanagan and other artists she has researched artists publishing as a radical gesture. www.arts.ac.uk/research/research-staff/a-z/dr-jo-melvin/ Arnaud Desjardin (The Everyday Press) Intellectual Property and the Cady Noland Project. http://www.tenderbooks.co.uk/post/101922998009/the-everyday-press-present-a-debt-that-can-never Sarah Dobai's republication of Gogol's The Overcoat (Four Corners Books 2015) in a presen