CONF 03.03.2020

Philosophical Criticism and Contemporary Art (London, 28 Mar 20)

Institute for Philosophy London, 28.03.2020

Diarmuid Costello, University of Warwick

This conference brings together leading philosophers of art and art theorists to focus on major works of 21st century contemporary art. The aim is not to motivate general philosophical claims but to examine a single work by a particular artist in light of the broader issues of philosophical interest that it raises. The idea behind the conference is that close attention to an individual work of art can be both critically and philosophically illuminating, and that this provides one model for substantive work in aesthetics, work that is not only philosophically serious but critically and historically sensitive.

Programme:

9.30 – 10.00 Tea and coffee on arrival

10.00 – 10.15 Introduction and welcome: Jason Gaiger

10.15 – 11.30 Vid Simoniti (University of Liverpool): ‘Art Beyond Human Agency: Maja Smrekar's !brute_force (2019-20)’

11.30 – 12.45 Peter Geimer (Freie Universität, Berlin): ‘The Colours of History. On Harun Farocki’s Respite (2007)’

12.45 – 14.00 Lunch break (own arrangements)

14.00 – 15.15 Louise Hanson (Durham University): ‘Morality and Metaphysics in the Chapman Brothers' Insult to Injury (2004)’

15.15 – 16.30 Diarmuid Costello (University of Warwick) and Katrin Flikschuh (LSE): ‘Felix Eats Garri & Egusi Soup (2014-16): Zina Saro-Wiwa and the Politics of Eating’

16.30 – 17.00 Tea and coffee

17.00 – 18.15 Sherri Irvin (University of Oklahoma): ‘Making the Body Strange: Janine Antoni’s Conduit (2009) and I am fertile ground (2019)’

18.15 – 19.15 Wine reception


The conference is a collaboration between the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick and the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford. It is hosted by the Institute of Philosophy, University of London, and the London Aesthetics Forum and supported by a grant from the British Society of Aesthetics.

Conference organisers: Diarmuid Costello (Warwick) and Jason Gaiger (Oxford).

The conference is free but advanced registration is required. Full details and registration are available here: https://philosophy.sas.ac.uk/events/event/21704.

Quellennachweis:
CONF: Philosophical Criticism and Contemporary Art (London, 28 Mar 20). In: ArtHist.net, 03.03.2020. Letzter Zugriff 29.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/22760>.

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