Maria Hlavajova Tuesday, April 1, 2014 78:30pm Kellen Auditorium, The New School 66 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10011 FREE In the Times of Interregnum If it is possible to think of our time as a time of interregnummuch in line with how political thinker Antonio Gramsci spoke of the period characterized by a great variety of morbid symptoms, as a crisis that consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be bornwhat, then, is our art to do? Everywhere, we see extant hegemonies losing their grip as we part from the legacy of the modern under the pressures of new contemporary realities. As we hover over the end of one era, unable to grasp the not yet, how can wewith and through arttrace from here the prospective itineraries pointing towards what we once used to call the future? In order to address these questions, in her Curator’s Perspective talk Maria Hlavajova will speculatively draw upon her research within two interrelated projects she has engaged with, FORMER WEST and Future Vocabularies. The former aims at developing a critical understanding of the legacy of the radical resistance to power in 1989 in order to reevaluate the global present and speculate about global futures. The latter attempts to act out concrete propositions that explore the shifts in our existing conceptual vocabulary within artistic, intellectual, and activist practices. This event is organized in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. It is free and open to the public. To attend please RSVP to rsvp@curatorsintl.org with MARIA in the subject line.
The Curators Perspective is a free, itinerant public discussion series ICI developed as a way for international curators to share their research and experiences with audiences in New York. These talks provide ICI the opportunity to assemble documentation on and disseminate information about a wide variety of international perspectives on art today. In 2014, audiences will hear perspectives on art, culture, and exhibition-making from curators based in Seoul, Doha, Utrecht, and Glasgow. Practitioners will talk about what theyre most interested in at the moment, including the artists and the sociopolitical contexts that are shaping practices now. The Curators Perspective series has been made possible, in part, by grants from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and by generous contributions from the ICI Board of Trustees and ICI Access Fund.
