"Dark Nights of the Universe" Exhibition

Recess

poster for "Dark Nights of the Universe" Exhibition

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Recess, in conjunction with The Public School New York, Presents: A four-night theoretical exploration of mysticism in dialogue with Du noir univers, a text by François Laruelle.

Night I: Eugene Thacker – Remote: The Forgetting of the World
Clodagh Emoe – Mystical Anarchism. Screening and discussion. Introduced by Simon Critchley.

Night II: Daniel Colucciello Barber – Whylessness: The Universe is Deaf and Blind.

Night III: Nicola Masciandaro – Secret: No Light Has Ever Seen the Black Universe

Night IV: Alexander Galloway – Rocket: Present at Every Point of the Remote

Classes will begin at 7pm. Visitors are welcome to join each day or a selection of days.

Recess will house a temporary library of relevant texts, which visitors may browse and annotate freely throughout Recess’s public hours and during the classes. The exhibition will feature visual works by Clodagh Emoe and Aaron Mette, and audio works by Eugene Thacker and Taku Unami.

Download Du noir univers. The English edition of this essay was first translated and published by Miguel Abreu as “Of Black Universe in the Human Foundations of Color” in the catalogue Hyun Soo Choi: Seven Large-Scale Paintings (New York: Thread Waxing Space, 1991): 2-4. It has been reproduced here with a few slight modifications. The original French essay, titled “Du noir univers: dans les fondations humaines de la couleur,” was published in La Décision philosophique 5 (April 1988): 107-112.

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Schedule

from April 26, 2012 to April 29, 2012
Classes will begin at 7pm

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