This Wednesday, May 13, Art Papers Live! will host Ute Meta Bauer for her lecture, “Scripted Spaces: The Exhibition as an Architecture of Discourse.”

Ute Meta Bauer is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Visual Arts Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. From 1996 to 2006, she was a Professor of Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. For over two decades, she has curated exhibitions with a focus on transdisciplinary formats linked to feminist and socio-political contexts.

Bauer was the Artistic Director of the 3rd berlin biennial for contemporary art in 2004 and a co-curator of Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany, 2002. Her curatorial credits also include section “?/NowHere” at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, 1996; “Architectures of Discourse,” Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, 2001; “First Story—Women Building/New Narratives for the 21st Century,” European Cultural Capital Porto, Porto, Portugal, 2001; “Mobile_Transborder Archive” commissioned by curator Osvaldo Sánchez for inSite 05, San Diego, CA / Tijuana, Mexico, 2005; and “What’s left? What remains?—SITAC VI,” Simposio Internacional de Teoria Sobre Arte Contemporáneo, Centro Cultural Universario Tlatelolco, Mexico City, 2008.

She is currently at work on “Theatrical Fields. Theatricality as feminist practice in time-based art,” a research project that will be shown in 2010 at LABoral Center for the Arts and Industrial Creation, Gijon, Spain, and WKV, Stuttgart, Germany.

Bauer has also served as the director of various institutions such as Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and the Office for Contemporary Art Norway. She is currently a member of the Governing Board of n.b.k. Berlin; the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Bauhaus Foundation Dessau, Germany; and LABoral, Gijon, Spain.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the High Museum of Art and its “Friends of Contemporary Art.” The lecture will be hosted at Hill Auditorium at the High Museum of Art from 7-8:30PM. It is free and open to the public.H