What is the Good of Work?: Oct 17

Talk with Marysia Lewandowska and Peter Fleming
Saturday, October 17, 4pm
Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building
5 East 3rd Street (at Bowery)

What is the good of work? How and why did the future change from the sixties and seventies vision of a leisure society to an exhausting life of increasingly purposeless work? What are the implications of the shift from a Fordist model of production to a post-Fordist one? Why is work valorized in contemporary society? What happened to the critique of labor and its radical potential from the Middle Ages up through the strategies of the Situationists and others? As unemployment becomes an increasing reality, how might we think of unemployment as an artistic and philosophical category?

These questions will be examined during four events at the Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building in the East Village. Each event will involve two guests–one artist and one cultural producer of another kind. Marysia Lewandowska and Peter Fleming will be the guests at the first event on October 17. Wyoming Evenings is organized by the Goethe-Institut New York and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and curated by Maria Lind and Simon Critchley.

Events to follow in this series:
Saturday, December 5 (2009): Marion von Osten and Tom McCarthy
Saturday, January 30 (2010): Liam Gillick and Gianni Vattimo
Saturday, March 13 (2010): Carles Guerra and Michael Hardt

Tickets ($10) for this event can be purchased at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/82568 Series tickets ($35) for all four events can be purchased at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/82573

http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/kue/bku/en5032925v.htm