Lecture, Conversation

20 April 2017, 19.00

Reflection on Knowability

Irit Rogoff at the 3rd Former West research congress in Vienna, 2012

As part of the exhibition To Seminar, BAK organizes a series of performances, talks, and public meetings inquiring how learning about, with, and through art can become a collective practice of thinking and acting out imaginaries alternative to those of the crises-ridden contemporary.

On Thursday 20 April 2017 BAK organizes Reflection on Knowability, a lecture by Irit Rogoff, followed by a conversation moderated by Kitty Zijlmans. Knowledge is always framed and sanctioned. There are regimes of knowledge, such as disciplines, and there are conditions of knowledge, such as geopolitics. As greater permissions enter the field of knowledge in the wake of emergent, complex practices, so do reflections on “knowability”—whether it can survive collapsing frameworks, whether it is actually the desired effect of research, and whether a shaken belief in “knowability” stands in the way of consciousness.

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07 March–02 June 2024

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Chapter one: exhibition

The exhibition foregrounds the artist’s collaborative approach to bringing together ecological, feminist, and decolonial knowledges and practices that put forward ideologies of usufruct, unhinging property-relations from the idiom of individuated possession and toward forms of common userships between humans and other-than-humans.

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