Event overview
How do ‘Advanced Practices’ in the arts explore, invent and restage knowledge formats?
With Irit Rogoff, Bridget Crone, Adnan Madani, Joni Zhu, Ofri Cnaani and Francesca Lazzarini.
‘Advanced Practices’ - also the title of Visual Cultures’ newest PhD programme - emerged in response to the research turn in the arts. Here, artistic activity is propelled by exploring, inventing and restaging knowledge formats. This new modality follows on from our earlier focus on Curatorial/Knowledge that perceived the curatorial as the creation of events of knowledge, rather than displays of art works. Subsequently, the immense turn to research in the arts and to epistemic invention across the humanities and social sciences, has required an expansion of that original framework. Thus, in Advanced Practices we ask: ‘how can artistic practices rewrite the relations between different bodies of knowledge that rarely meet, and how can we engage these by working with them rather than studying them?’.
Our work in Advanced Practices joins numerous initiatives exploring new research paradigms, foremost the ‘European Forum for Advanced Practices’ with which our department is closely involved.
This event is associated with our ‘Curating and Institutional Practice’ research cluster.
Biographies
Irit Rogoff is a writer, educator, curator and organizer. She is Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London, a department she founded in 2004. Rogoff works at the meeting ground between contemporary practices, politics and philosophy. Her current work is on new practices of knowledge production and their impact on modes of research, under the title of “Becoming Research” (forthcoming).
Bridget Crone is a curator and writer. Focussing on the body in material and speculative terms, her work explores questions of “liveness” and the image in relation to performance theory/ practice, and the changing relations of body, technology and ecology.
Adnan Madani is an artist, writer and curator interested in contemporary subjectivities in relation to philosophies of globalization, religious/secular life and intercultural encounter. His focus is on the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, Wittgenstein, Talal Asad and the ethics of esoteric Islam as developed by Massignon. Other areas of specialisation include contemporary South Asian art and popular urban cultures in Pakistan.
Ofri Cnaani, Francesca Lazzarini, and Joni Zhu work professionally in the art world and are PhD researchers on the Visual Cultures' Advanced Practices PhD Programme. (See the Eventbrite listing for further biographical details.)
Image: Liere Vergara, Dispositifes of touching, Morocco, 2017. Reproduced with permission.
This event is part of the Visual Cultures Public Programme: Spring 2021.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Feb 2021 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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