The Power of Art
The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, New York City, New York, 10012
Saturday, July, 11, from 11am-6pm

Organized by Warren Neidich, The Power of Art Colloquium will center its
discussions on the relationship between art and power, as well as a
wider conception of the current 'value' of art. Internationally renowned
philosophers, art historians, architects, poets, cultural critics and
artists will assemble for this one-day event to address the power (or in
many cases powerlessness) that art has to produce individual, social and
cultural change, and will also investigate art's influence on cultural
aesthetics and the global economy.

Panelists include: Meena Alexander, Keller Easterling, Jonatan Habib
Engqvist, Boris Groys, David Joselit, Alexis Knowlton, Warren Neidich,
Susanne Neubauer, John Welchman, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Bruce Wexler,
and Laura Wexler.

SCHEDULE

Morning Session

Opening Remarks: 11:00-11:10

Brett Littman - Executive Director of The Drawing Center

The Power of the Image in the Formation of the Cultural Imagination

11:10-11:40 Laura Wexler, Pregnant Pictures

11:40-12:00 David Joselit, The Laws of Images

12:00-12:30 Boris Groys, Mass Culture. Phase 2

12:30-12:50 Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Long Live Degenerate Art!

12:50-1:20 Morning Panelist Discussion

Lunch 1:20-2:00

Afternoon Session

Art Poetics, Resisting Power and Powerlessness

2:00-2:30 Meena Alexander, Migrations of Sense: Traumatic Knowledge and
the Poem

2:30-2:50 Alexis Knowlton, Intention Attention

2:50-3:10 Susanne Neubauer, Some Aspects on the Value of
Non-Sustainability

3:10-3:40 John Welchman, Power, Piracy and the Bloody Flux

The Architectonics of Cultural Artifice and the Production of
Brain/Mind/Spirit

3:40-4:10 Sven-Olov Wallenstein, The Invention of Aesthetics

4:10-4:40 Keller Easterling, Dispositions

4:40-5:10 Bruce Wexler, Plasticity, Intergenerational Struggle and
Cultural Identity

5:10-5:30 Warren Neidich, Neuropower

5:00-6:00 Afternoon Panelist Discussion