Event overview
Permissions: The Way We Work Now Visual Cultures Public Programme Spring 2016
Kader Attia grew up in both Algeria and the suburbs of Paris and uses this experience as a starting point to develop a dynamic practice that reflects on aesthetics and ethics of cultural difference. He explores the wide-ranging repercussions of Western modern cultural hegemony and colonialism on non-Western cultures, investigating identity politics of historical and colonial eras, from Tradition to Modernity, in the light of our globalized world, of which he creates a genealogy. For several years, his research has focused on the concept of Repair, as a constant of which the modern Western Mind and the traditional extra-Occidental thought have always had an opposite vision. From Culture to Nature, from gender to architecture, from science to philosophy, any system of life is an infinite process of repair.
Recent and coming exhibitions include "Reason's Oxymorons" at the 66th Berlinale; “The Injuries are Here” a solo show at the Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts de Lausanne; “Culture, Another Nature Repaired”, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp; ‘Contre Nature’, Beirut Art Center; ‘Contested Terrains’, Tate Modern; Biennale of Dakar; dOCUMENTA(13); ‘Performing Histories (1)’ at MoMA, New York.
As boundaries dissolve between teaching, researching and articulating concerns, as definitions of practice expand and mutate – we wish to pay attention to the permissions granted us by such changes. How do we currently define our subjects and methods as invention and necessity join forces within our work? As we self institute and self authorize in the face of new formats of research, study and practice - how do our permissions come about, are they immanent to fields of study or authorised by the urgent issues of the day?
As the department of Visual Cultures turns 10, we are looking at how new entry points for engagement have emerged, new Cartographies are being drawn and new practices have claimed legitimacy as the direct outcome of knowledge production.
This terms’ public programme brings together members of the Visual Cultures department, invited guests and former students in order to map out the changing orders of creative knowledges.
Series curated by: Irit Rogoff, Manuel Ramos and Susan Schuppli.
The event is free and no booking is required. All welcome.
Dates & times
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14 Jan 2016 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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