[Reader-list] Fwd: Invitation to workshop on "Icons- Spectacle and Affect" - a mistake

[Tasveer Ghar]

Dear friends,
There was an error in the programme sent earlier. The first lecture is
on 17 February 2010 and not in 2007 as mentioned below.

Thanks

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From: Tasveer Ghar <tasveerghar at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:34:31 +0530
Subject: Invitation to workshop on "Icons- Spectacle and Affect"
To: Sarai reader list <reader-list at sarai.net>

"In connection with an international workshop on Icons- Spectacle and Affect,
The Transcultural Visuality Learning group at the Cluster of
Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, University of
Heidelberg
The Max Planck Insitute Partnergoup at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU
and
The Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
cordially invite you to attend the two lectures by distinguished art historians.
Please come and spread the word! (Entry is for free.)

Dario Gamboni
 “Recycling Neolithic Urns and Vinyl Records:
Transcultural Aspects of Iconoclash”


17 February 2007, at 7pm, at the Max Mueller Bhawan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi
Marg, New Delhi.

The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (b. Beijing 1957) achieved visibility
when, having returned to his country after twelve years in the US, he
began breaking and recycling Chinese antiquities in the mid-1990s. In
1998, the US artist Dario Robleto (b. San Antonio 1972) started
grinding and melting vinyl records and other mass-produced and organic
materials to produce sculptures accompanied by detailed listings of
their ingredients.

While Ai is generally hailed as an iconoclast and Robleto could be
defined as an iconophile, both share a crucial yet ambivalent, even at
times paradoxical relation to the materials they use. This lecture
will examine this relationship and ask what role the transcultural
aspects of the two artists’ lives and works have played in their
respective contributions to present-day “iconoclash”

Dario Gamboni is Professor of the History of Art and Architecture
(Modern and Contemporary), University of Geneva and author of The
Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French
Revolution, and Potential Images: Ambiguity and Indeterminacy in
Modern Art.


and

Tapati Guha Thakurta

“Durga Puja Tours and Travels. Vignettes from a Contemporary Urban Festival”

19 February 2010, at 7pm, Max Mueller Bhawan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg,
New Delhi.

Every autumn season the city of Calcutta undergoes a temporary
spectacular visual metamorphosis for the week-long annual celebration
of the Durga Puja festival. The city of the festival, the talk will
show, becomes a liminal site for popular travel, heritage touring, and
art and craft consumption, with implications that take us beyond the
micro time and place of the Pujas.

The talk’s focus will be on a new genre of 'art' and 'theme'
productions that have recently come to dominate the face of this
festival and given it the identity of a public art event. It will
track the proliferation through different neighbourhoods of the city
of broadly three types of tableaux - architectural and archaeological
and replicas, craft and folk art villages, and a third type that calls
itself 'conceptual' or 'installation art' - to see how the local and
the global, the vernacular and the corporate enmesh within these
trends. It will also explore the way the praxis of touring and worship
have come to coexist within an exhibitionary field that remains
constitutively grounded in the performance of the ritual event.

Tapati Guha-Thakurta is Professor of History, Centre for Studies in
Social Sciences, Calcutta, and is author of The Making of a New
'Indian' Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal,
c.1850-1920 and Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in
Colonial and Postcolonial India."



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