"States of Emergency: Objects as Agency circa 1970" Symposium
Guggenheim Museum
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Organized by David Joselit, Carnegie Professor, Yale University and Alexandra Munroe, Samsung Senior Curator of Asian Art
Gathering together art historians, artists, and curators, this daylong symposium asks how the proclamation of the "end" of the art object, a statement that was made in a startling number of locations around the world ca. 1970, demonstrated the end of both aesthetic and political modernity, and the advent of a decentered globalism characterized more by crisis than by revolution. Speakers include Stefano Chiodi, Romy Golan, Nicolas Guagnini, Amelia G. Jones, Branden Joseph, Lee Ufan, and Mika Yoshitake. Reception immediately follows.
Program
Objects as Political Agency
Mika Yoshitake (Tokyo) on Mono-ha: Structures of Disappearance Joan Kee (Ann Arbor) and Lee Ufan (Kamakura & Paris) in conversation
Agency of The Everyday
Romy Golan (New York) on Italy in 1970: The Missing Structure Stefano Chiodi (Milan) and Luigi Ontani (Rome) in conversation
Agency in Action
Amelia Jones (Montreal) on Art as Material Trace Tania Bruguera (New York & Havana), Luis Camnitzer (New York), and Nicolas Guagnini (New York) in conversation Branden Joseph (New York) on Biomusic
Writing a Global History of Art, circa 1970
David Joselit and Alexandra Munroe on The Possibilities of Comparative Discourse
[Image: Lee Ufan "Relatum" (formerly "Phenomenon and Perception A") (1969/2011) Photo by Kristopher McKay]
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Schedule
September 16, 2011 from 12:00