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Brian O鈥橠oherty, Tino Sehgal, Sturtevant, Lynne Tillman, Marina Warner and John Waters are all part of the line-up of international artists, filmmakers, curators and cultural commentators taking part in Frieze Talks 2012. Frieze Talks is a daily programme of keynote lectures, panel debates and discussions that take place in the auditorium at Frieze London. It is presented by Frieze Foundation and programmed by the editors of frieze magazine: Dan Fox, J枚rg Heiser and Jennifer Higgie.

The diverse programme includes Sturtevant in conversation with John Waters on the subject of 鈥榮tupidity鈥�; Tino Sehgal will talk about his relationship to conceptualism, choreography and the art object with J枚rg Heiser; and Kasper K枚nig, co-founder of Sculpture Projects Munster and director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne since 2000, discusses with Jochen Volz, newly appointed as Head of Programmes at the Serpentine Gallery, London and a contributing editor to frieze, his ?ve decades of curating.

Frieze Talks 2012 also includes three panel discussions focusing on current debates in contemporary art and theory. Led by writers Isobel Harbison, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie and Brian Dillon, topics include: 鈥楧eeply Super?cial鈥�, an analysis of the aesthetic and economic phenomenon of the stock image as source material for art; 鈥楤eing Dif?cult鈥�, looking at how refusal can de?ne responsibility within the context of the Middle East; and 鈥楢ttention! Criticism and its Distractions鈥�, which will consider what kinds of concentration are at work in art criticism today. Panel participants include: Lauren Cornell, Orit Gat, Hassan Khan, Vasif Kortun, Oliver Laric, Alexander Provan and Marina Warner, Martin Westwood and Akram Zaatari.

Keynote lectures will be given by artist, critic and novelist Brian O鈥橠oherty, who will discuss the evolution of his ideas and the role of creativity and research in this work, and critic and novelist Lynne Tillman, who will speak about the under-examined relationship between imagination and criticism.