Cᴏᴍᴘᴀɴɪᴏɴᴀʙʟᴇ Oʙᴊᴇᴄᴛs, Cᴏᴍᴘᴀɴɪᴏɴᴀʙʟᴇ CᴏɴsᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇHow might we write the dramas and predicaments of conscience into our ethnographies and histories of Southeast Asian art? Things—artworks—mingle with us in our lifeworlds and in our ethical accounts of ourselves. In preparing written portraits of painter A. D. Pirous and other figures from Indonesia’s earliest cohort of postcolonial artists (1945-2000), I have been drawn to them as artists-of-conscience who seek out narratives that bring their subjectivity, their artwork, and their publics into companionable alignment. Picturing conscience (and failures of conscience) as a shaping force in the way artists practice their craft and dwell in their lifeworlds opens up fresh possibilities for taking measure of art world pursuits and their political and historical specificity. It invites an interest in episodic ethnography and art history, and obliges us to work both with and against the grain of the artists’ own account of themselves.
Ken George (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Professor of Anthropology Emeritus in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University, having served previously at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harvard University, and as Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies (2005-2008). Ken’s ethnographic and art historical research in Asia began with a decade of work on the cultural politics of ritual violence in highland Sulawesi, Indonesia. He subsequently conducted a long-term collaborative project on contemporary Islamic art and art publics across Southeast Asia. His research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (USA), and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Ken’s books include the prize-winning Showing Signs of Violence: The Cultural Politics of a Twentieth-Century Headhunting Ritual (1996); Spirited Politics: Religion and Public Life in Contemporary Southeast Asia (2005, co-editor); and Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld (2010). His current research with Kirin Narayan exploring the intermingling of religion and technology in India has been supported by the American Institute of Indian Studies, the USIEF Fulbright Program, and an Australian Research Council Discovery Project Award.
Centre Pompidou
Cette série inaugurale de webinaires sur l’art moderne et contemporain de l’Asie du Sud-Est se propose d’éclairer l’importance de la monographie d’artiste dans la pratique de l’histoire de l’art.
Du 10 mars 2023 au 10 mars 2023
Le Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap) et la Bibliothèque Kandinsky du Musée national d’art moderne/CCI, Centre Pompidou sont heureux de vous inviter au lancement et la signature de l’ouvrage Dix éditeurs de livres
d'artistes par eux-mêmes (1960-1980) d’Anne Mœglin-Delcroix publié par les éditions Incertain Sens. À cette occasion, l’auteure échangera avec l’éditrice Aurélie Noury, Annalisa Rimmaudo, attachée de conservation aux collections contemporaines du Musée national
d’art moderne et collaboratrice du projet d’édition, et le photographe et artiste Hubert Renard. Préparée par Annalisa Rimmaudo, une sélection de livres d’artistes issue des collections de la Bibliothèque Kandinsky sera disponible pour la consultation.
Du 15 mars 2023 au 15 mars 2023
La Bibliothèque Kandinsky du Musée national d’art moderne/CCI, Centre Pompidou est heureuse de vous inviter à la présentation de l’ouvrage History Matters / Konstellation Benjamin qui vient de paraître aux éditions Spector Books à Leipzig.
Avec Bernard Blistène, Arno Gisinger et Friederike Wappler.
Modération : Mica Gherghescu, Bibliothèque Kandinsky et Florian Ebner, Cabinet de photographie du Centre Pompidou
Du 22 mars 2023 au 22 mars 2023
L’histoire des catalogues raisonnés n’est qu’au début de son écriture, peut-être parce que sa fonction ne cesse d’évoluer. Gagnant des qualités de scientificité, s’éloignant de plus en plus du beau livre et du coffee table book, le catalogue raisonné en vient aujourd’hui à développer d’autres fonctions, parfois inattendues, mais résolument au cœur de ce qui construit aujourd’hui le monde de l’art.
Séance #1 : Une courte histoire des catalogues raisonnés : avec Rainer Michael Mason, Denyse Durand-Ruel et la Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association
Du 24 mars 2023 au 24 mars 2023
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Dr Michelle Antoinette
Researcher of Modern & Contemporary Asian Art
Senior Lecturer, Art History and Theory Program
Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Art History and Curating
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