Our 2011 opening debate, addresses the festival's theme, 'awake in the universe' head on. What gives art the ability to raise us from emotional and intellectual slumbers and where is its edge currently to be found? Controversial art historian Julian Stallabrass, artist Susan Hiller fresh from her retrospective at the Tate earlier this year, and postmodern painter and psychoanalyst Bracha Ettinger debate how art and creativity make us alive.
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