In collaboration with IKK - Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, AHC invites you for a public lecture by Professor Peter Osborne on Thursday 20 February.
What does it mean to experience an artwork as at once 'contemporary' and 'historical'; as historical in the mode of its contemporaneity? And how do its spatial relations affect the character of its contemporaneity? That is, how is our understanding of the dialectic of site and non-site that constitutes the spatial aspect of the artwork to be extended to include the full range of its geo-political - and thereby fully historical - conditions? And how do particular curatorial discourses and modes of presentation both disclose and cover over, or disavow, such historical meanings.
This talk will reflect on these general-theoretical questions via discussion of the contrasting instances of (i) curatorial-political discourses at the 60th Venice Biennale, 'Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere' (2024) and (ii) the situation of art in response to the war in Ukraine.
The talk is followed by a discussion between Osborne and Mikkel Bolt, Professor in Political Aesthetics at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies.
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INFO
Peter Osborne: Contemporary Art as Historical Art
Public lecture
20 February 2025, at 5-7PM
Art Hub Copenhagen
Thoravej 29
2400 Copenhagen NV
Free entrance, but please register here to secure a seat.
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About Peter Osborne
Peter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and founding Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London. He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Paris 8 (2012, 2014, 2019), the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2015-16) and Yale University School of Art (2017). His books include The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde (1995; 2011), Philosophy in Cultural Theory (2000), Conceptual Art (2002), Marx (2004), Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art (2013), The Postconceptual Condition (2018) and Crisis as Form (2022). He has contributed to a wide range of art and cultural theory journals - including Afterall, Artforum, Art History, Cultural Studies, New German Critique, New Left Review, October, Oxford Art Journal, Telos, Texte zur Kunst - and catalogues for art institutions - including Manifesta 5, Tate Modern, Biennale of Sydney, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Office of Contemporary Art Norway, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Oslo, Reina Sofia Madrid, and MMK Frankfurt.
What does it mean to experience an artwork as at once 'contemporary' and 'historical'; as historical in the mode of its contemporaneity? And how do its spatial relations affect the character of its contemporaneity? That is, how is our understanding of the dialectic of site and non-site that constitutes the spatial aspect of the artwork to be extended to include the full range of its geo-political - and thereby fully historical - conditions? And how do particular curatorial discourses and modes of presentation both disclose and cover over, or disavow, such historical meanings.
This talk will reflect on these general-theoretical questions via discussion of the contrasting instances of (i) curatorial-political discourses at the 60th Venice Biennale, 'Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere' (2024) and (ii) the situation of art in response to the war in Ukraine.
The talk is followed by a discussion between Osborne and Mikkel Bolt, Professor in Political Aesthetics at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies.
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INFO
Peter Osborne: Contemporary Art as Historical Art
Public lecture
20 February 2025, at 5-7PM
Art Hub Copenhagen
Thoravej 29
2400 Copenhagen NV
Free entrance, but please register here to secure a seat.
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About Peter Osborne
Peter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and founding Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London. He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Paris 8 (2012, 2014, 2019), the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2015-16) and Yale University School of Art (2017). His books include The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde (1995; 2011), Philosophy in Cultural Theory (2000), Conceptual Art (2002), Marx (2004), Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art (2013), The Postconceptual Condition (2018) and Crisis as Form (2022). He has contributed to a wide range of art and cultural theory journals - including Afterall, Artforum, Art History, Cultural Studies, New German Critique, New Left Review, October, Oxford Art Journal, Telos, Texte zur Kunst - and catalogues for art institutions - including Manifesta 5, Tate Modern, Biennale of Sydney, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Office of Contemporary Art Norway, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Oslo, Reina Sofia Madrid, and MMK Frankfurt.
