Apr 30 2015
Lecture and Screening | Boris Groys: Immortal Bodies
Thurs | 7pm
“That is why contemporary art aims at making the corpse look increasingly corpse-like — in order to make impossible further projections of the soul onto works of art.”
-Boris Groys, The Immortal Bodies
In conjunction with Work Hard: Selections by Valentin Carron, please join us for a presentation of Boris Groys’s 2007 video lecture, Immortal Bodies. Groys will introduce the work, as well as answer questions immediately following.
Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net
Boris Groys is Professor of Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. He is the author of many books, including The Total Art of Stalinism, Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment, Art Power, The Communist Postscript, and, most recently, Going Public.