Tuesday, 24 November coco fusco Performing Bare Life, Exploring Carceral Cultures 5.30pm, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Coco Fusco (interdisciplinary artist, writer and Director of Intermedia Initiatives, Parsons The New School for Design, New York) Coco Fusco will discuss her latest body of work in video, performance, and writing that investigates military interrogation as intercultural performance. She will also discuss her two new projects: one that looks at the "techniques of the body" that constitute daily routines in American prisons and the other, which will focus on the various Black Codes that were instituted by the US and former European colonial powers to delimit the rights of free blacks during slavery and all black peoples in the New World after slavery. Open to all, free admission Organised by Dr Julian Stallabrass (The Courtauld) and Professor Malcolm Bull (University of Oxford) This Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series on 'Globalisation and Contemporary Art' examines the way in which contemporary art has been radically transformed by globalisation. While much of the art that first came out of that transformation propagandised the virtues of globalisation, new tensions have emerged, from the 'war on terror' to the financial crisis, which have led to a strongly documentary and politicised turn in art. In this series, prominent art historians, artists and theorists will examine this striking new configuration. The series has been organised by Dr Julian Stallabrass and Professor Malcolm Bull in conjunction with their Research Forum/Andrew W Mellon Foundation M.A. Special Option in the History of Art on 'Aestheticising Politics? The Political in Globalised Contemporary Art'. The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN tel +44 207 848 2909 web http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/index.shtml -- Olga P Massanet -------------------------- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational
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