The late, great art critic Peter Schjeldahl used to refer to The Cloud of Unknowing, a fourteenth-century mystic tract, as one of his models for encountering art. According to Schjeldahl, the text proposed a method for willfully releasing all preconceptions and entering into a state of contemplation that might—hopefully—end in insight. Can criticism help us exit from the cloud? Join art critics and historians Cameron Hurst, Victoria Perin and Rex Butler for a discussion about criticism at the fair. Butler, Hurst, and Perin will chat about works on display at the Exhibition Centre.

Featuring:
Cameron Hurst (Memo, The Paris End)
Victoria Perin (Memo, Keeper Print Room)
Rex Butler (Memo, Monash University)

To attend this conversation, please ensure you’ve purchased your Melbourne Art Fair ticket.

The CONVERSATIONS program is curated by Melbourne Art Fair and presented by Guardian Australia. Panel arranged by Ella Howells.