Event overview
Culture & Finance Capital - Visual Cultures Public Programme Autumn 2016
Dhanveer Singh Brar (Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London)
Thursday 27 October, 5.00-7.00pm
Richard Hoggart Building, Room 342
Chair: Louis Moreno
Released in 2014, the album Ghettoville represents a major point in the constellation of electronic music Darren Cunningham has released under the Actress “image”. In Ghettoville Actress takes the abstraction engine that is black electronic dance music and fuses it with the ecology of poverty in his local South London. The work could be said to construct a sonic palette that rewires the racialized logic of debt, and extends and troubles the (black) social indebtedness found in Stefano Harney and Fred Moten’s thought. This lecture will attempt to track Actress' complication and intensification of the dynamics of racial capitalism through the phono-material grain of this album.
Dhanveer Singh Brar is a scholar of Black Studies, as it intersects with Cultural Studies and Critical Theory. The research he undertakes covers theorizations of black diasporic culture from the mid-twentieth century to the present, the history of the black radical tradition, and the politics of black critical thought. He has published in journals such as Social Text, Darkmatter and Cesura // Acceso and is a founding member of the London based Black Study Group.
Culture & Finance Capital
The nature of contemporary capitalism has radically altered in the last forty years: financial activity dominates over production, speculative investment is commonplace, indebtedness is a globalising condition, austerity targets the most vulnerable. These developments have not only changed the economic system, they have produced a new culture with widening inequality reshaping the social landscape of education, housing and public space. In this programme we shall explore the intricacies of the phenomenon called 'financialisation': surveying the way the credit system relates to everyday life, and hearing how artists, curators and activists are confronting finance from within the site of culture.
Series organisers: Louis Moreno & Tom Trevatt
The events are free. No booking is required. All are welcome!
Plus ‘Visual Cultures As Opportunity’ book launch (RHB 342, 7:00-8.30pm)
Following the lecture, there will be a drinks reception celebrating the publication of Helge Mooshammer & Peter Mörtenböck’s new book Visual Cultures as Opportunity (Sternberg Press 2016).
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Dates & times
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27 Oct 2016 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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