Hey! Je conférence à Berkeley!!
STATE OF EMERGENCY: The Place and Function of Contemporary Art in Society
A Lecture by Evelyne Jouanno
Thursday, April 26, 2007 4 p.m.
691 Barrows Hall
University of California-Berkeley
In
the cultural debates of the last decades, if the challenge of
multiculturalism offered new alternative models of social organization,
more open to the real coexistence and exchange of cultures and human
values, how do we turn these concepts/discourses into reality?
How do we attract public attention and stimulate a more ample debate on
controversial social and political topics, easily ignored and forgotten
realities, countries that do not have visibility for historic reasons
and peoples who have been deprived of territories and identities?
What kind of new strategies must be developed to carry out this
responsibility beyond the existing institutions and market places and
their political/financial constraints?
Evelyne
Jouanno, an independent art critic and curator from Paris, has written
extensively on contemporary art and geopolitics and organized numerous
transnational art exhibitions and events. She will discuss her
project, the Emergency Biennale, a suitcase art project and
transnational traveling exhibition organized in Chechnya
(www.emergency-biennale.org), and multiculturalism in the context of
ambivalent globalisation.
Organized by the Visuality and
Alterity Working Group. Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the
Humanities and the Center for Race and Gender, UC-Berkeley.