Programs
Symposium | The Anti-Museum, Part Two
Fri Sep 21 2018, 6:30—8:15pm
A Retrospective of Closed Exhibitions – Hi Red Centre “Great Panorama Exhibition (aka Closing Event),” Fri Art, 2016. Photograph: Primula Bosshard.
Encompassing panel discussions, events, music performance and lectures, The Anti-Museum – A Symposium brings together artists, musicians, writers, poets, theorists and curators to discuss the possibility of the Anti-Museum, approached through the understandings of anti-art, anti-artist, anti-exhibition, anti-design, anti-architecture, anti-technology, anti-music, anti-cinema, anti-writing, anti-culture, anti-university, anti-philosophy or anti-religion.
Program
September 20, 6:30PM
Introduction by Mathieu Copeland
Videoconference with Graciela Carnevale
September 20, 8:15PM
Henry Flynt will deliver a talk titled REVISITING MY PANORAMIC CRITIQUE OF CULTURE FIFTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, a retrospective consideration of the panoramic critique of culture he presented in Walter De Maria’s loft in February 1963. Before the talk, he will present a rock instrumental for electric violin, as yet untitled.
In conjunction with the symposium, artist Swetlana Heger takes Fri Art offline (http://www.fri-art.ch).
“This evening, I will review the panoramic critique of culture which I gave in Walter De Maria’s loft in February 1963 …”
Please rsvp to rsvp@swissinstitute.net. Please note: events at Swiss Institute are limited capacity, and entry is on a first-come, first-served basis.
With Robert Barry, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Graciela Carnevale, Henry Flynt, Kenneth Goldsmith, Swetlana Heger, Ben Morea, and Reiko Tomii.
Curated by Mathieu Copeland, in collaboration with Fri Art, Kunsthalle Fribourg, Switzerland.
Published by Fri Art & Koenig Books – London, with KW – Berlin, The Anti-Museum comprises of 794 pages of interviews, statements, manifestos, and over sixty essays, completed with historical reprints and a dense iconography dedicated to all forms of the “anti.”
The Anti-Museum – A Symposium is dedicated to the memory of Jean Toche (1932 – 2018), whose uncompromising stance relentlessly affirmed the absolute necessity of radicality in art.
