A conversation between James Lingwood and Christin Müller
Located on the third floor of the Economou Collection, Sleep (2015) is a collage of images of sleeping people collected from the internet by artist Steven Shearer. Using this work as a starting point, renowned British curator James Lingwood will engage in a conversation with German curator of photography Christin Müller about "found photography," focusing on issues of archiving, appropriation, framing, and the redefinition of messages in an era of open image circulation via the internet and social networks.
James Lingwood was until recently the codirector with Michael Morris of Artangel, London. Since 1991, Lingwood and Morris have commissioned and produced a series of notable site-specific works, including the Turner Prize-winning construction House (1993) by Rachel Whiteread; Michael Landy’s installation in a former boutique on Oxford Street in London, Break Down (2001); Gregor Schneider’s Die Familie Schneider (2004); Francis Alÿs’s Seven Walks (2005); Roni Horn’s installation in rural Iceland, Vatnasafn/Library of Water (2007); and Roger Hiorns’s Seizure (2008). In addition to his work with Artangel, Lingwood has curated exhibitions for national and international arts institutions including Juan Muñoz’s Double Bind (2001) in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall and Douglas Gordon’s What Have I Done (2002) at the Hayward Gallery in London. He has also organized major survey exhibitions with Vija Celmins, Julião Sarmento, Thomas Struth, and Thomas Schütte.
Christin Müller is an independent curator of photography. She has collaborated on projects with German organizations such as ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), Stuttgart, Berlin; Wüstenrot Stiftung, Ludwigsburg; Museum Folkwang, Essen; neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), Berlin; C/O Berlin; and the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie in addition to the Museum Rietberg and the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. She is also a writer who has held several teaching appointments, the most recent of which have been at the Leipzig University and the Hochschule Hannover, University of Applied Sciences and Arts. She is a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the German Photographic Association (DGPh), the German Association for Art History (Verband Deutscher Kunsthistoriker), nGbK, and VG Wort.