With Suhail Malik and Carsten Nicolai
Tuesday, 22nd Mai 2012 at 7pm, a public lecture with Suhail Malik: The Ruling Elite Have Feelings too. "How do the wealthy as a governing class continue to maintain and enhance their social and political legitimacy through this economic and culture crisis? One strategy: asserting the language and belief in individual merit, personal worth, and autonomy from collective determination, the ruling elite position themselves on the side of the just. Yet exactly this configuration of claims is no less the central to the critical tenets of contemporary art". Suhail Malik is a writer and holds a Readership in Critical Studies at Goldsmiths, London. Wensday 23rd Mai 2012 at 7pm a public lecture with Carsten Nicolai: Display. Born 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Carsten Nicolai is a visual artist, composer and musician who lives and works in Berlin and Chemnitz. For some years now, Nicolai has released albums under the pseudonyms noto and alva noto which he has presented at live shows in national and international concert halls, clubs and museums. Carsten Nicolai will be speaking about his most recent works.