Talk: 31 Oct, 6-7.30pm
Think Tank: 1 Nov 6pm-8pm
This is the exhibition lecture/ museum, and an exhibition/ a lecture/ museum is many things
Active Archive - Slow Institution continues with a series of seminars and events led by international artists, curators and critics.
My lecture and the following think tank session are immersed in the writings of Jerzy Ludwiński (1930–2000), a Polish art theoretician and critic who, in the early 1970s, observed that the transformation of art was linked to its assumption of entirely new forms; an observation which the critical language of his time was unable to do justice. Ludwiński compared the development of art to glue (“embracing everything and pouring itself into everything”), serving as a link between different fields of intellectual, scientific and social activities.
Should museums of the future come to resemble a greenhouse (an art environment which will provide a protected space for the growth of new (post)artistic practices), it is possible that such a museum would be activated and negotiated by the people, its programme formed through a process of constant negotiation. Such a museum would not undergo a material disintegration, but would rather become an interface in the ongoing mediation between the people who practice, utilise, play with, consider, and discuss art.
Sebastian Cichocki
Please RSVP to livia@projectartscentre.ie to receive programme information.
