On the Horns of A Dilemma: Contemporary Art Between the Regional and the Transnational

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Mittwoch 17. Juni 2015
17. Juni 2015
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On the Horns of A Dilemma: Contemporary Art Between the Regional and the Transnational
- Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Hof 9

Guest lecture by Alexander Alberro
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Ort | Universität Wien, Institut für Kunstgeschichte (Department of Art History), Universitätscampus AKH Hof 9, A-1090 Wien (Entrance to Hof 9: Garnisongasse corner of Beethovengasse, Seminar Room 1 - Entrance door: 9.2)

Guest lecture supported by Kunsthistorische Gesellschaft, Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Wien. Organized by Noit Banai, Institute for Art History, University Vienna, Sabeth Buchmann, Institute for Art Throty and Cultural Studies, and Marina Grzinic, Post Conceptual Study Program, Institute for Fine Arts.

My paper centers around three fundamental questions. Is it possible to reestablish the lost link between contemporary art and a consistent art historical narrative? Second, can the art of the past quarter century be seen in structural terms – that is, is it organized around a structure? And third, are there theoretical and practical tools that could help us to comprehend both the governing principle of regional traditions, and the alleged globalization of the art world in recent years? To date, the answers given to such crucial questions have established only a limited connection between a regional or national art space on the one hand and a transnational or global art space on the other. In order to move beyond this division, I will propose that the art of the past several decades exists in a mediating space between these two poles: a parallel territory, relatively autonomous from the political domain, and dedicated as a result to questions, debates, inventions of a specifically artistic nature. Here struggles of all sorts are refracted, diluted, deformed or transformed according to an artistic logic, and in artistic forms. My hope is that working from this hypothesis, while trying to envisage all its theoretical and practical consequences, an understanding of art that is at once regional and transnational can be developed: in other words, a concept that could give a unified account of, say, the development of recent art forms, or the aesthetics of the artworks, and their connection to the political, economic and social world. ?Alexander Alberro, Barnard College/Columbia University

CV: Alexander Alberro, Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University in New York City. He is the author and editor of a number of books on contemporary art, including Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists Writings (2009); Art After Conceptual Art (2007); and Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (2004). His current book project is ?Abstraction in Reverse,? a study of the emergence and development of abstract art in Latin America. He is also at work on a volume that explores new forms of art and spectatorship that have crystallized in the past two decades

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