RSVP 05. / Cultural Struggles and the Criticality of Withdrawal
RSVP 05. / Cultural Struggles and the Criticality of Withdrawal
24.04.2014, 7pm
Trafo House of Contemporary House – Konra Klub
Recent iterations of the Istanbul Biennial, the Sydney Biennial, Manifesta in St. Petersburg or even the Bucharest Biennial saw an impressive deployment of oppositional forces questioning the ethical, political, and economic functions that these events serve. They inscribe themselves in a growing international movement of resistance against the restructuring of the art field according to the logic of the alliance between financial and corporate capital and repressive politics. The questions raised within these temporary fields of solidarity among cultural workers (artists, curators, researchers, writers, activists) appear to exceed the realm of art and the art institution as such; or, in other words, the problematic and the legacy of institutional critique is rather incorporated in a broader investigation of the manners in which what we understand through the concept of art, political awareness, struggles for social, political and economic justice, and activism can concatenate each other in a common struggle. In his lecture Vlad Morariu attempts to understand the concrete and symbolic roles of withdrawal and refusal of participation within these events. He will be interested in pursuing precisely these questions: What chains of legitimation do withdrawal and non-participation invoke? Where do their resources and power stem from and what are their limits? Is there an outside of the establishment that one withdraws to and, if the answer is positive, what tools are there available to conceptualize it?
Vlad Morariu in his lecture will also refer to vessel curatorial collective's Giant Step. Reflections and Essays on Institutional Critique, a collection of essays that follow a project which investigated the significance and possible ways of appropriating the heritage of institutional critique in the marginal areas of the Western art world.
Vlad Morariu (b. 1983) is a Romanian theoretician, curator and art critic based in London. He is educated in philosophy and is currently finishing his PhD research titled Institutional Critique. A Philosophical Investigation of its Conditions and Possibilities at Loughborough University School of the Arts. He published texts and interviews in collective editions such as Atlas of Transformation, JRP-Ringier, 2010; and Crisis, Rupture and Anxiety, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. He is a collaborator of the Idea Art + Society magazine since 2007 and of the platform ArtLeaks since 2012.
Supported by: National Cultural Fund of Hungary
24.04.2014, 7pm
Trafo House of Contemporary House – Konra Klub
Recent iterations of the Istanbul Biennial, the Sydney Biennial, Manifesta in St. Petersburg or even the Bucharest Biennial saw an impressive deployment of oppositional forces questioning the ethical, political, and economic functions that these events serve. They inscribe themselves in a growing international movement of resistance against the restructuring of the art field according to the logic of the alliance between financial and corporate capital and repressive politics. The questions raised within these temporary fields of solidarity among cultural workers (artists, curators, researchers, writers, activists) appear to exceed the realm of art and the art institution as such; or, in other words, the problematic and the legacy of institutional critique is rather incorporated in a broader investigation of the manners in which what we understand through the concept of art, political awareness, struggles for social, political and economic justice, and activism can concatenate each other in a common struggle. In his lecture Vlad Morariu attempts to understand the concrete and symbolic roles of withdrawal and refusal of participation within these events. He will be interested in pursuing precisely these questions: What chains of legitimation do withdrawal and non-participation invoke? Where do their resources and power stem from and what are their limits? Is there an outside of the establishment that one withdraws to and, if the answer is positive, what tools are there available to conceptualize it?
Vlad Morariu in his lecture will also refer to vessel curatorial collective's Giant Step. Reflections and Essays on Institutional Critique, a collection of essays that follow a project which investigated the significance and possible ways of appropriating the heritage of institutional critique in the marginal areas of the Western art world.
Vlad Morariu (b. 1983) is a Romanian theoretician, curator and art critic based in London. He is educated in philosophy and is currently finishing his PhD research titled Institutional Critique. A Philosophical Investigation of its Conditions and Possibilities at Loughborough University School of the Arts. He published texts and interviews in collective editions such as Atlas of Transformation, JRP-Ringier, 2010; and Crisis, Rupture and Anxiety, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. He is a collaborator of the Idea Art + Society magazine since 2007 and of the platform ArtLeaks since 2012.
Supported by: National Cultural Fund of Hungary
