Event overview
The Open University is a functioning outdoor lecture theatre constructed in a roadside refuse skip, as well as an ad hoc lecture series of variable proportions, presented in situ therein, on the subject of what is and what is not trash. The University’s wooden furnishings can be installed in any skip, and include parquet flooring, a lectern and stepped seating.
As the creator, curator, and hostess of this forum, Marcia Farquhar extends a standing invitation to a range of experts and would-be experts from a variety of cultural and academic fields, including music (both popular and classical), psychology, theology and cultural theory. This invitation is intended to solicit lecture contributions on as wide a range of subjects as possible, within the leading theme of what is, what should be and what should never be considered trash.
How trash is culturally defined and defended, inclusive of a respect for kitsch, is a well worn subject, but ever more urgent is the question of how to refuse certain conditions around this classification; how a Post Modern ironic acceptance of 'everything' is increasingly an open invitation to apolitical and right wing forces.
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Dates & times
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27 Oct 2011 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | |
28 Oct 2011 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | |
29 Oct 2011 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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