Event overview
The Visual Cultures Public Programme Autumn 2013 begins with a talk by Professor John Roberts (Wolverhampton University).
Art, Politics and the Topological Turn
The topological turn in art since the late 1970s, and particular since Fredric Jameson’s respatialization of art praxis as “cognitive mapping” as a politicized response to postmodernism, has produced a topological spirit, as art moves to both reconnect with the historic avant-garde (a topological loop) and to incorporate non-artistic spaces and places into art’s means and relations of production. This is why in the early years of this process of transformation there was a strong emphasis upon art’s occupancy of new spatial thresholds in order to test and redefine not only the limits and possibilities of art’s 'proper' borders, but also what the new spatial content might accomplish or presage politically. Today, though this re-spatialization is in crisis as these new forms of occupancy are narrowed or foreclosed. This talk looks at this process, in the light of new forms of praxis in art.
John Roberts is Prof. Art & Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton and the author of a number books including The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade (Verso 2007) and The Necessity of Errors (Verso, 2011). His Photography and Its Violations (Columbia University Press) and Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde (Verso) are to be published next year.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 3 Oct 2013 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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