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HomeEventsCalgaryPanel Discussion: Have We Failed Contemporary Art?

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Panel Discussion Have We Failed Contemporary Art?

Thursday, October 8, 2026
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Esker Foundation · Calgary
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Moderated by Babak Golkar. Panellists: Sky Goodden, Haema Sivanesan, and Monika Szewczyk.This new annual initiative of talks and panels emerges out of an ongoing attempt to grapple with the state of contemporary art and the conditions shaping its reception today. Demands placed on contemporary art—for directness, spectacle, or a reduction to economic functionality—will be central to these conversations.This series is interested in thinking through how these pressures inflect not only the production of contemporary art, but also its circulation, interpretation, and institutional framing. Has contemporary art failed us, or have we failed contemporary art?

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