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Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht Conservatorium, Utrecht
HKU Utrechts Conservatorium, Mariaplaats, Utrecht, Nederland

 Congress

29 September 2012

Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht Conservatorium, Utrecht  

3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress, Part Two

Irit Rogoff, Bassam El Baroni, Delaine Le Bas, Mihnea Mircan, Marion von Osten, Rasha Salti, Jonas Staal, Stephen Wright, David Riff, What, How & for Whom/WHW

A detailed program and all video recordings of contributions presented during the 3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress, Part Two: Beyond What Was Contemporary Art, are available here.

Following the deliberations during Part One titled Beyond What Was Contemporary Art (April 2012, Vienna), Part Two of the 3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress takes place on 29 September 2012 and bases its discussions on a question ushered in—somewhat unexpectedly—by theorist and curator Irit Rogoff in her closing keynote address for Part One: “What on earth do they mean when they say art?” Admittedly a question that is as difficult as it is intriguing, it seems to be a critical one to pose and also to begin to answer as the hegemonic formations that held the imagination of the future hostage for the last twenty-odd years are being dismantled. The chasm opening up before us is yet to be filled through a negotiation of meanings and (im)possibilities. At stake is the redefinition of the space of art beyond what we came to know as both product of—and propaganda for—neoliberal capitalism.

Speakers include: Bassam El Baroni (curator and art critic, Alexandria), Delaine Le Bas (artist, various locations, Europe), Mihnea Mircan (curator and writer, Antwerp), Marion von Osten (artist and cultural researcher, Berlin), Rasha Salti (curator and writer, Beirut), Jonas Staal (artist, Rotterdam), and Stephen Wright (theorist, writer, curator, and researcher; Paris). Moderated by David Riff (writer, artist, and curator, Berlin/Moscow).

Venue: Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, Mariaplaats 27, Utrecht.

Part Two of the 3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress follows the opening of the exhibition How Much Fascism? at BAK, curated by What, How & for Whom/WHW.

The 3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress, Part Two is developed by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and co-curated by What, How and for Whom/WHW and the FORMER WEST curatorial team. The 3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress, Part Two is realized in collaboration with Utrecht School of the Arts. It is generously supported by the Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam and the EU Culture Programme, Brussels.

For more information regarding the FORMER WEST project, please see here.

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