Event overview
As part of the Visual Cultures Guest Lecture Series, Helmut Draxler, cultural theorist, curator and professor at the Marz Academy in Stuttgrat, will be delivering a lecture entitled 'What does political art want?'
"What does political art want?"
The talk focuses on the intentionality and the different kinds of perspectives on political art starting from 2, maybe even 3 kinds of "fallacies": the "intentional fallacy", as described by New Criticism in the 1950s; the "necessary fiction of intentionality" of every political actor, as described by Viennese philosopher Oliver Marchart, combined maybe with Lacan's great paradox, that you should always stay true to your desire, but of course your desire is not yours. From there on I will interrogate artistic practices which understand themselves as political if they remain on the level of good intentions or how they manage to address those fallacies
HELMUT DRAXLER
Cultural theorist, curator and professor at the Marz Academy in Stuttgrat. Draxler was head of the Munich Kunstverein during its most innovative exhibition and project period in the 1990s and headed the research project on "Film and Biopolitics" at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. He is the author of "Hazardous Substances" on the relationship between criticism and Art , Berlin 2008, "Shandyism - Authorship as Genre" (Exhibition and Book)Vienna 2008 and "The power of context (Over / with Fareed Armaly)", b-books, Berlin, 2006.
Dates & times
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12 Nov 2009 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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