Night School Public Seminar 12: Jan Verwoert

Night School Public Seminar 12: Jan Verwoert
New Museum, 235 Bowery

Friday, February 27, 7pm
Saturday, February 28, 3pm
Sunday, February 29, 4pm

What is the future of medium-specific practices after Conceptualism?
What is the future of Conceptual art after the 1990s?

How have the basic conditions of art practice changed and what words and models could we use to open up the potentials at the heart of these developments in art after Conceptualism?

The talk will start off addressing the conditions of contemporary practice. The idea is to invent a new language that would acknowledge a shared sense of crisis and doubt, yet fight the senseless paranoia over legitimation that too much bad-faith criticism today exploits in the wake of second-generation institutional critique together, through discussions that describe potentials. In other words: In response to the concerns of contemporary art practice, how could a critical vocabulary be developed that would break the spell of the oedipal infatuation with the laws of (institutional) legitimacy—and instead help to transform criticism into a truly gay science based on a shared sense of appreciation and irreverence?

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