Salon discussion: The Private Salon

August’s debate interrogated the re-emergence and effectiveness of the Salon as a mode of private discourse. Miss B led a discussion on the significance of the ‘private salon’: asking whether it was evidence of increasingly visible social networks, or a dynamic closed forum in which to develop discourse and share ideas.

Participants were Miss B (chair), Sebastian Craig (i-cabin), Russell Martin (artist and Artquest Programme Coordinator), Jen Thatcher (curator, writer, and Director of Talks at ICA), Markus Miessen (writer and architect) and Bettina Pousttchi (artist).