nanaxlava.blogg.se

Simon O’SULLIVAN is Reader in Art Theory and Practice in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

He lectures in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has written for many publications, including New Humanist, The Guardian Film Quarterly, The Wire, Sight and Sound and Frieze. Mark FISHER is the author of Capitalist Realism (Zero 2009) and Ghosts of My Life (Zero 2014). She is an editor at New York-based magazine The New Inquiry and currently lives in Berlin. She was a studio participant on the Whitney ISP 2013-14 and graduated from the MFA in Art Writingat Goldsmiths in 2013. Her work has recently been shown at 155 Freeman/Triple Canopy(NYC), MoMAW (Warsaw), W139 (Amsterdam) and Sala Luis Miro Quesada Garland (Lima), among other places. She runs a website together with Ben Watson: Hannah BLACK is an artist and writer. Derelicts: Thought Worms from the Wreckage was published by Unkant in 2014. Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art, and the Chemical Industry (Reaktion) appeared in 2005. In 2002 she published Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory, and the Avant Garde (Verso). She has also written a biography of Benjamin (Reaktion, 2007). Her first book was Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism (Pluto, 2000). It is not known why it was written or how it came to be viewed as an accurate geography book.Įsther LESLIE is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck,University of London, UK. The book is not a narrative, and the descriptions are usually of medicines, animals, and geological features.It was referred to as a bestiary, but also has been regarded as an accurate record used widely for research. The exact author(s) of the book and the time it was written are still undetermined. Versions of the text have existed since the 4th century BC. Shan Hai Jing is the earliest cultural and geographical record in China. The event will be live streamed in Shanghai, organised by British Council in Shanghai, and will be adapted into a film by Shen Xin. Shoulders of Giants is supported by Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA), Birmingham City University,and Faceshift funded by Chronus Art Centre. Invited speakers include Esther Leslie, Hannah Black, Mark Fisher, and Simon O’Sullivan. The event will consider the implications of such positioning and its potential to redirect and reorganize power relations through what happens and as it happens – to how such strategies transcend perceived limitations. It will position theoretical and artistic practices as practice of action, and therefore looks at how the dispositions of each practitioner are appropriated in various modes in order to produce subjectivity, to communicate change and to form solidarity. The event seeks to investigate the strategies that artists, theorists and critics employ to deal with mechanisms of power – such as oppression and censorship, surveillance and punishment, unemployment and estranged labour – that are inherent in daily politics to highlight the many desires that are afloat where power multiplies, unfolds, fluctuates, and diminishes to render visible the physical and psychological affects that they have. The invited speakers will animate creatures derived from (Also known as The Classics of Mountains and Seas, C4th BC) as they speak, discuss and conduct Q&A.

Shoulders of Giants appropriates and extends the model of a symposium through animation, performance and projection. Venue: Senate Room, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU LondonĬhronus Art Center (CAC) and Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) jointly present Shoulders of Giants, a research project initiated by SHEN Xin who is recently awarded the “CAC Fellowship for Chinese Artist 2015”. Speakers: Esther Leslie, Hannah Black, Mark Fisher, Simon O’Sullivan