Fay Nicolson, "(In search of) The Perfect Lecture," 2010. Digital image from performance lecture, 25 minutes. Photo: Fay Nicolson.

Fay Nicolson, (In search of) The Perfect Lecture, 2010. Digital image from performance lecture, 25 minutes.
Photo: Fay Nicolson.

Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art

Between Art and Academia lecture performance

Artistic research takes emblematic form in the lecture performance—a widespread phenomenon on the international art scene of recent years. The genre has its roots in the performance and conceptual art of the 1960s, and balances on the boundary... continue reading

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Gabriel Lester’s “The Secret Life of Cities”By Judith Vrancken

The lust to be a “totalizing eye” immediately sprung to mind when walking into Gabriel Lester’s “The Secret Life of Cities.” It’s one of the key notions expressed in Michel de Certeau’s chapter “Walking in the City” that “the fiction of knowledge is related to [the] lust to be a... continue reading

“U.F.O.-NAUT JK (Július Koller) orchestrated by Rirkrit Tiravanija”By Simon Rees

Anyone who grew up in the 1970s and watched the Children’s Television Network/PBS educational series Sesame Street was subliminally prepared for the gamut of conceptualism in (contemporary) art. No character prepared one better than the “Mad Painter,” who popped up in the unlikeliest of places in his Chaplinesque bowler hat... continue reading

Henri Chopin’s “La Crevette Amoureuse”By Vincenzo Latronico

The traditional form of the novel, as we know it since the nineteenth century, seems oddly impervious to change. In comparison to the extraordinary evolutions undergone by art, very little has changed between today’s mainstream fiction and its Balzac, Austen, and James equivalents. Most of the novel’s purported evolutions have... continue reading

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Syracuse University presents The eNth Degree: MFA 2013Syracuse University

Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts presents The eNth Degree: MFA 2013 May 22–26 at 25CPW Gallery, 25 Central Park West at 62nd Street, New York City. Gallery hours are noon-8pm daily. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, May 23, 6–8pm. Exhibiting artists include Daniel Aguilera, Jennifer Chan, Ryan Crotty,... continue reading

RUPERT Program: call for applications for educational and residency programs in VilniusRUPERT

Book release: Gardar Eide Einarsson, Versuchsstation des WeltuntergangsBergen Kunsthall

PNCA’s New Hallie Ford School for Graduate Studies hosts thesis exhibitionsPacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)

College for Creative Studies seeking ProvostCollege for Creative Studies

Certificate in Visual Arts Management: Deusto Business School, NYU, Guggenheim BilbaoNew York University (NYU)

Call for applications: TransartTransart Institute

School of Visual Arts presents Crossing PlatformsSchool of Visual Arts (SVA)

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