Thursday, Feb. 24
Thursday, March 17
Thursday, April 7
Join the CalArts MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics for the Spring Lecture Series “Dominance and Revolution: the image, the struggle and the use of force”
The School of Critical Studies presents the Aesthetics & Politics Lecture Series: Dominance & Revolution. We are delighted to welcome Professor Katerina Kolozova, Institute of Social Science and Humanities, Skopje, N. Macedonia, with respondent Alice Rekab, artist, researcher and educator based in Dublin, Ireland, to kick off the series on Thursday, Feb. 24.
Themes of dominance and revolution are not so popular today. The idea of a comprehensive re-orientation of our world is claimed to be impossible, and the notion that there is a visible concentration of power that might be called dominant has been eviscerated by neo-liberal global capital as much as by the disaggregating mechanics of critical theory which has preferred to speak about horizontal forms of power as opposed to verticality.
Here we can ask about the role and force of the image in this project, the validity of speaking about the class struggle, the role of critique and reason for class consciousness, as well as race and equality; and notwithstanding the question of a politics that can re-think the human, the subject and the ‘we.” When today, these universal elements are extirpated in the subliminal negativity of identity politics’ neo-expressivism, as well as in critiques from the right and the left, we can ask what it is to understand, communicate and picture the political, one that can delve into the complex of negativity and constructive affirmation?
We are delighted to welcome Professor Katerina Kolozova, Institute of Social Science and Humanities, Skopje, N. Macedonia, with respondent Alice Rekab, artist, researcher and educator based in Dublin, Ireland, to kick off our series on February 24th 2022. This will be followed by Gean Moreno, Director of the Knight Foundation Art and Research Center at ICA Miami, with respondent Jaleh Mansoor, Associate Professor, Dept of Art, Visual Art and Theory, UBC, Canada on March 17th; and finally Tony Bogues, Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory at Brown University, with respondent James Trafford, Reader in Philosophy and Design at the University of the Creative Arts, UK, on April 7.
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