Cultural production today is dominated by images and sounds of the past. This panel, chaired by frieze's Dan Fox, asks: Is nostalgia always necessarily conservative and retrogressive, or can it be harnessed as a progressive force?

Chaired by Ralph Rugoff (Director, Hayward Gallery, London), the panel of academics and artists questions whether market forces have created an emphasis on product over process.  Does the current art school curriculum reflect our times, and should it?

In conjunction with her exhibitions at IKON, Birmingham and Frith Street Gallery, London, artist Fiona Banner discusses her most recent projects surrounding images of conflict, as well as the longstanding publishing activities of her Vanity Press imprint, with design writer and curator Emily King.

• Fiona Banner (artist)
• Emily King (writer & curator)

Since the early 1960s, Franz Erhard Walther has explored the possibilities of objects and images that prompt viewers to do something other than just look. An inspirational to John Bock as a student at Hamburg's Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Bock's work - in the spirit of Walther's - transforms action, speech and everyday materials into complex installations. The two artists discuss the potential of doing things with - and amongst - art.

How is modernism received outside of the West? Three leading global writers and curators explore how artists have employed and adapted modernism to reflect local and national particularities, in a panel chaired by frieze Contributing Editor Shanay Jhaveri.

Veteran artist Yoko Ono presents a keynote lecture demonstrating the continued importance of the performative practices and engagement with audiences that she has pursued since the 1960s.

Since the 1970s, pioneering writer, editor and academic Sylvère Lotringer has been at the forefront of "French Theory" in the US. In this rare keynote lecutre, he reflects on the relationship between art and theory today.

Since the 1980s, when buzzwords like ‘semiotics' were prevalent in the art world, theory has played an important role in the interpretation, and making, of art. Yet, after all these years, has contemporary art really influenced the way philosophers think? This panel asks: is theory still relevant to today's artists?

Working between craft, art and technology, esteemed designer Hella Jongerius speaks to Eugenia Bell about the evolution of her distinctive and innovative practice.

Since the mid-1960s, Meredith Monk has been a pioneer of interdisciplinary performance and of what is now called ‘extended vocal technique'. Among her many accolades are a MacArthur ‘Genius' Award and a Grammy nomination for her 2008 album, impermanence. Beginning with a typically visionary exploration of the human voice, Monk explores her concurrent creation of multifaceted music-theater works, films and installations.