Monday, December 10, 2018
6pm – 7:30pm
ACT Cube
David Joselit, Untranslatable: Conceptual Art since the ’90s
It is often assumed that Conceptual Art pivots on bureaucratic means of communication such as text and documentary photography, and that it performs a dematerialization of traditional media such as painting and sculpture. In this lecture, I will argue that since the ’90s, artists have focused more on Conceptual Art’s legacy of remediation, rather than its capacity to de-materialize, making it possible to develop Conceptual practices pivoting on such media as painting (as in the work of R.H. Quaytman), sculpture (exemplified by Rachel Harrison), and performance (in the oeuvre of Andrea Fraser).
[Image: Rachel Harrison, Sculpture with Boots, 2017]