Event overview
Visual Cultures Guest Lecture Series - ALEXANDER GARCIA DUTTMANN
This talk considers the difficulty of participation in art. When thematised, such participation seems to trigger a kind of undoing of the work, for its two aspects are difficult to reconcile. The one who relates to an artwork, or participates in it, must forget that it is an artwork; yet he must also remember the fact that it is an artwork, something produced by an artist. We do both each time we relate to an artwork. But can we do both at the same time? This question will be addressed with reference to a little-known film by Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni: "Preface: The Screen Test" (1964). The (short) film will be screened before the talk and the discussion.
Alexander García Düttmann teaches philosophy at Goldsmiths. Recent publications include: "Philosophy of Exaggeration" (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2004; London and New York: Continuum 2007), "Visconti: Insights Into Flesh and Blood" (Berlin: Kadmos 2006; Stanford: Stanford University Press 2008) and "Derrida and I" (Bielefeld: Transcript 2008).
Dates & times
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2 Oct 2008 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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