"On Certainty" Exhibition
Bose Pacia
This event has ended.
On Certainty includes a group show, a new issue of the magazine Shifter (co-edited by the participating artists), and a series of public dialogues with economists, neurologists, physicists and writers. The participants contemplate the notion of certainty and its sibling, uncertainty: How and why do we constitute a unified self from which to speak and construe meaning in this world? When we say, "I know..." with certainty, what do we mean?
The title of the show, lifted from Ludwig Wittgenstein's posthumously published book, signals our attempt not only to investigate knowledge and factuality, but furthermore, to interrogate the statement "I saw it with my own eyes." What is the position of the witness (who represents an event) and the authentic subject (who represents a group) in knowledge production?
The interdisciplinary programming of the lecture series reflects the curatorial desire to use the gallery as an intellectual commons. As Edward Said has said, specialization sometimes "means losing sight of the raw effort of constructing either art or knowledge," and by opening up an interdisciplinary conversation we hope to investigate the "choices and decisions" that produce these knowledges, and their certainties.
PRESENTATIONS:
*Presentations will be held at 3pm on the following Saturdays at Bose Pacia.
March 14
Seismosis: A Performance*
Christopher Stackhouse and John Keene (CS: Writer/ Artist; JK: Associate Professor of English & African American Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston.)
March 21
Guess and Check is Valid Math*
Christopher Perkins (Researcher, STAR Detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York.)
March 28
Uncertainty, Confidence and Crises*
Arjun Jayadev (Asst. Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Boston.)
April 4
Readings by Poets, Followed by Discussion*
Organized by Christopher Stackhouse
April 11
Rewiring the Soul: Technologies of the Truth*
Lawrence Liang (Founding Member, Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore)
April 18
The Neuroscience of Language and Certainty*
Kenneth Perrine, followed by discussion with Arani Bose
(KP: clinical neuropsychologist, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center; AB: Gallerist, Director of Stroke Research, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City.)
Curated by Sreshta Premnath.
[Image: Kiran Subbaiah, "Use_Me.Exe" (2004) Computer Program (Pseudo-Virus for Windows on CD) 20 MB]
Media
Schedule
from March 13, 2009 to April 18, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-03-13 from 18:00 to 20:00