This lecture-series (conceptualized by Isabelle Graw) revolves
around the question of artistic skills in a digital world. What do they
actually consist of? While it always mattered how an artist performs
herself since the Modern Age, it seems that the „Auftritt des Künstlers“
(Beatrice von Bismarck), namely, her public staging of herself, has
become increasingly important in a Media Society. Has the modeling of
her „personality“ turned into a skill that is required from her? Or
should one rather argue that artistic practices still represent other
competences, attitudes and ways of life that question the ideal of an
entrepreneurial self? What have traditional skills been replaced by?
It
seems that the deskilling of the arts that is usually associated with
the „Duchamp-effect“ and post war practices allowed for a reskilling
that is currently quite popular in the artworld. Is it a historical
necessity that deskilling entails reskilling? Historically speaking,
„deskilling“ was a male privilege in the 1950´s and 1960´s. Many male
artists opted for anti-subjective aleatory procedures that rejected
skills, whereas women artists practiced another form of deskilling in
the 1970´s by reintroducing formerly devaluated, „female skills“ into
their work. Could one argue, at least in retrospect, that it is
precisely these lower or soft skills associated with the sphere of
reproduction that are have risen to the status of a valuable resource in
the New Economy?
Dates:
Lucy McKenzie (12. April)
Benjamin Buchloh (22. Juni)
Beatrice von Bismarck (23. Juni)
Julia Gelshorn (12. Juli)
Vortrag
Lucy McKenzie: Civilised Woman: skill, image and agency in the 1920s and the present.
Dienstag, 12. April 2016, 19 Uhr, Aula
Lucy
McKenzie is a Scottish-born, Belgium-based artist, whose work could
formally be described as collaborative and interdisciplinary. Crudely
formulated, the artist is interested in how to learn, un-learn and
extend structures. Recurring undercurrents in McKenzie's practice can
thus be recognized as appropriation, self-appropriation and mastery of
craft, manifested through trompe 'oeil paintings, mystery writing,
interior and fashion design.
McKenzie (*1977, Glasgow)
graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art & Design in
Dundee in 1999. From 2007 to 2008 she studied decorative painting at Van
Der Kelen Logelain in Brussels. She formed the interior design company
Atelier E.B. with Edinburgh-based designer Beca Lipscombe and
illustrator Bernie Reid. Solo shows have been held at the Stedelijk
Museum, Amsterdam (2013), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008) and
the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2004). McKenzie was a guest professor at
the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie in 2011–13.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
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