Event overview
Aesthetic Objectivity: Department of Visual Cultures Public Programme Spring 2014
Franck Leibovici - towards a forensic poetry (a documental ecology)
What if writing was not anymore the expression of ideas but to had be considered as an activity? What if documents were not a support for information but an "intellectual technology" and a set of actions? How to un-freeze artefacts and perform documents? That's the kind of questions we'll try to raise, through the study of some writing practices.
Franck Leibovici is a poet and artist. He is the author of quelques storyboards (2003), 9+11 (ubu.com, 2005), des documents poétiques (al dante "forbidden beach", 2007), portraits chinois (al dante, 2007), letters from jerusalem (spam, 2012), (some forms of life) - an ecology of artistic practices (questions théoriques / les laboratoires d'aubervilliers, 2012), filibuster! (a duration piece)(jeu de paume, 2013). For a number of years he developed a mini-opera for non musicians, as a tool of redescription for "low intensity conflicts”. This series of performances and installations, based on notation systems stemming from experimental music or dance, science studies, or conversation analysis, are, however, not related to any form of "live art".
Aesthetic Objectivity
The computational turn, or what might be called the algorithmic paradigm of calculation and modelling, has produced a new ethics that emerges out of bandwidth and code. This database-ethics has changed both the spaces in which action occurs and ways it is acted upon.
Increasingly, our primary access into the spaces of contemporary conflict is through remote sensing technologies and mobile phone uploads. For over four decades now, earth observation satellites have captured and transmitted data-streams allowing us to chart the long-term changes occurring within dynamic planetary systems, demonstrating the ruinous effects of deforestation, environmental pollutants, resource extraction, and climate change. CCTV video surveillance has also turned witnessing by mechanical means into a prevalent and normalised feature of every-day life. The Visual Cultures Public Programme for Spring 2014 aims to shed light on the kinds of spatial, aesthetic, and political transformations being produced by these changes.
The near real-time mediation of all contemporary events needs to be understood and examined not simply as a ‘progressive’ consequence of a technical evolution made possible by enhanced microprocessors, but as inaugurating a radical new form of aesthetic objectivity. How, asks this series, might we modify the aesthetic registers by which such objectivities are produced and activate new means critique and mobilise new modes of resistance?
Chair: Susan Schuppli
Free, no booking required ... all welcome
Dates & times
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| 23 Jan 2014 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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