Ralph Rugoff: Scene of the Crime, Monday, June 29th, 2015 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art
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Liebe Antragstellerinnen und Antragsteller,
Liebe Assoziierte, Liebe Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden,
wir möchten Sie herzlich zur vorletzten Veranstaltung der Ringvorlesung »Forensische Ästhetik: Interdisziplinäre Betrachtungen« am Montag, den 29.06. im KW in Berlin-Mitte einladen. Ralph Rugoff wird einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Scene of the Crime" halten.
Wie bei den letzten Veranstaltungen, besteht wieder die Möglichkeit, mit dem Vortragenden im Anschluss der Veranstaltung in Berlin-Mitte essen zu gehen.
Wir freuen uns auf Ihr Kommen.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Naomie Gramlich
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Vortrag von Ralph Rugoff: Scene of the Crime
Im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung »Forensische Ästhetik: Interdisziplinäre Betrachtungen« des Graduiertenkollegs »Sichtbarkeit und Sichtbarmachung. Hybride Formen des Bildwissens«
Zeit: Montag, 29.06.2015, 18–20 Uhr
Ort: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin, Studiolo, Vorderhaus, 1. OG, http://www.kw-berlin.de
My talk will focus on the thinking behind the exhibition ‘Scene of the Crime’ that I organised in Los Angeles 1997. In the catalogue for the exhibition, I explored the idea of a ‘forensic aesthetic’ in contemporary art – an approach in which the artwork is presented as the residue or record of an earlier event, sometimes to an extent where distinctions between sculpture and performance seemed to blur. Inasmuch as it functions almost like a set of clues, conveying information about a set of prior procedures, the final work seems defined as much by an absence as by its own physicality. In general terms, this kind of art puts us in a position akin to that of the forensic anthropologist or scientist, forcing us to speculatively piece together histories that remain largely invisible to the eye. It demands a scanning gaze able to sift through the details of a scene, to shuffle fragments of information that seem only haphazardly related.
Ralph Rugoff is Director of the Hayward Gallery at the Southbank Centre, London. As a curator he has organised numerous exhibitions including The Alternative Guide to the Universe; Invisible: Art about the Unseen, 1957-2012; Jeremy Deller: Joy In People; Psycho Buildings: Artists Take On Architecture; The Painting of Modern Life; Just Pathetic and Scene of the Crime. He is also the curator of the 2015 Lyon Biennale.
»Sichtbarkeit und Sichtbarmachung. Hybride Formen des Bildwissens« DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 1539 Universität Potsdam Am Neuen Palais 10 14469 Potsdam http://www.sichtbarkeit-sichtbarmachung.de/