Rare Earth presents Boris Groys: Art and Truth

Lecture
May 14, 2015, 7pm, TBA21?Augarten
Free Entrance

In the frame of the Rare Earth exhibition and its upcoming publication, the renowned philosopher and art theorist Boris Groys will cogitate about what he considers as central question to be asked about art in the conditions of the contemporary: is art capable of being a medium of truth?

Groys’ publications, among others are: The Total Art of Stalinism. Russian Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond. Verso. London-New York 2011. Art Power. MIT Press. Cambridge Ma. 2008 The Communist Postscript, Verso, London-New York, 2010 Going Public. Sternberg Press. Berlin- New York 2010 An Introduction to Antiphilosophy (translated from German by David Fernbach). Verso. London – New York 2011 Under Suspicion. A Phenomenology of Media. Columbia University Press 2012. On the New. Verso, 2014.