Aktuelles Sommer 2015
Öffentliche Ringvorlesung "Forensische Ästhetik: Interdisziplinäre Betrachtungen" des Graduiertenkollegs „Sichtbarkeit & Sichtbarmachung“ mit Ralph Rugoff
Ralph Rugoff: Scene of the Crime
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
- PsychoBuildings: Artists Take On Architecture
- The Painting of Modern Life
- Just Pathetic
- Scene of the Crime
He is also the curator of the 2015 Lyon Biennale.
Termin:
Montag, 29.06.2015
18:00 Uhr - 20:00 Uhr
Ort:
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststr. 69, 10117 Berlin
Studiolo, Vorderhaus, 1. OG
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
- PsychoBuildings: Artists Take On Architecture
- The Painting of Modern Life
- Just Pathetic
- Scene of the Crime
He is also the curator of the 2015 Lyon Biennale.
Termin:
Montag, 29.06.2015
18:00 Uhr - 20:00 Uhr
Ort:
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststr. 69, 10117 Berlin
Studiolo, Vorderhaus, 1. OG