e-flux journal lecture at Cooper Union
e-flux journal Irit RogoffParticipation - A User's Guide
March 8th, 6:30
Rose Auditorium
Cooper Union School of Art
41 Cooper Square
New York, NY 10003
Logo for summit for non-aligned initiatives in education culture, Berlin 2007
Participation - A User's Guide
March 8th, 6:30
Rose Auditorium
Cooper Union School of Art
41 Cooper Square
New York, NY 10003
e-flux is pleased to announce the second in a special series of lectures at the Cooper Union School of Art, organized in cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Seminar. This lecture by Irit Rogoff coincides with a special guest edited issue of e-flux journal entitled Education Actualized. Admission is free.
This presentation tries to veer away from the inclusive prescription that characterizes the so called 'participatory turn' in contemporary art -- in which protocols were created to invite subjects into projects and spaces. Instead the presentation asks: What does it mean to take part in a culture beyond the roles that social habit allows? If participation is not directed from above by artists, curators and institutions - how then does it come about?
By looking to the work of Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben and Jean- Luc Nancy, the interests of community and collectivity in art can be fleshed out through the concept of 'singularity' rather than that of identity. Such engagements with the blurring of lines between makers, viewers, objects and spaces has required the development of an alternative vocabulary to capture the shifting relations between art and its meanings.
Irit Rogoff is a theorist, curator, and organizer who writes at the intersections of the critical, the political, and contemporary arts practices. Rogoff is a professor at Goldsmiths College, London University, in the department of Visual Cultures, which she founded in 2002. Her work across a series of new "think tank" Ph.D. programs at Goldsmiths (Research Architecture, Curatorial/Knowledge) is focusing on the possibility of locating, moving, and exchanging knowledges across professional practices, self-generated forums, academic institutions, and individual enthusiasms. Her publications include Museum Culture (1997), Terra Infirma - Geography's Visual Culture(2001), A.C.A.D.E.M.Y (2006),Unbounded - Limits Possibilities (2008), and the forthcoming Looking Away - Participating Singularities, Ontological Communities (2009). Curatorial work includes De-Regulation with the work of Kutlug Ataman (2005-8), A.C.A.D.E.M.Y(2006), and Summit - Non Aligned Initiatives in Education Culture (2007).
e-flux journal is edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood and Anton Vidokle.
http://www.e-flux.com/journal
The Interdisciplinary Seminar was designed twelve years ago to contribute a regular and sustaining discussion on artistic practice for the students of The School of Art at The Cooper Union and the creative community that surrounds them. The Interdisciplinary Seminar is organized by Doug Ashford and Saskia Bos. http://cuids.org/
This presentation tries to veer away from the inclusive prescription that characterizes the so called 'participatory turn' in contemporary art -- in which protocols were created to invite subjects into projects and spaces. Instead the presentation asks: What does it mean to take part in a culture beyond the roles that social habit allows? If participation is not directed from above by artists, curators and institutions - how then does it come about?
By looking to the work of Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben and Jean- Luc Nancy, the interests of community and collectivity in art can be fleshed out through the concept of 'singularity' rather than that of identity. Such engagements with the blurring of lines between makers, viewers, objects and spaces has required the development of an alternative vocabulary to capture the shifting relations between art and its meanings.
Irit Rogoff is a theorist, curator, and organizer who writes at the intersections of the critical, the political, and contemporary arts practices. Rogoff is a professor at Goldsmiths College, London University, in the department of Visual Cultures, which she founded in 2002. Her work across a series of new "think tank" Ph.D. programs at Goldsmiths (Research Architecture, Curatorial/Knowledge) is focusing on the possibility of locating, moving, and exchanging knowledges across professional practices, self-generated forums, academic institutions, and individual enthusiasms. Her publications include Museum Culture (1997), Terra Infirma - Geography's Visual Culture(2001), A.C.A.D.E.M.Y (2006),Unbounded - Limits Possibilities (2008), and the forthcoming Looking Away - Participating Singularities, Ontological Communities (2009). Curatorial work includes De-Regulation with the work of Kutlug Ataman (2005-8), A.C.A.D.E.M.Y(2006), and Summit - Non Aligned Initiatives in Education Culture (2007).
e-flux journal is edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood and Anton Vidokle.
http://www.e-flux.com/journal
The Interdisciplinary Seminar was designed twelve years ago to contribute a regular and sustaining discussion on artistic practice for the students of The School of Art at The Cooper Union and the creative community that surrounds them. The Interdisciplinary Seminar is organized by Doug Ashford and Saskia Bos. http://cuids.org/
