Farewell To Contemporary Art?
dal 13/12/2009 al 13/12/2009
Segnalato da
Alexander Alberro
Carrie Lambert-Beatty
Jack Bankowsky
Vanessa Joan Muller
Stefan Deines
Isabelle Graw
Daniel Birnbaum
13/12/2009
Farewell To Contemporary Art?
Staatliche Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste-Staedelschule, Frankfurt
A conference in two part.
The category Contemporary Art has risen to a label full of promise. This is true for the city of Frankfurt in particular, where the expansion of the Stadelmuseum has been justified with the need for collecting Contemporary Art. Contemporary Art is a composite term which contains a double charge: it promises art and an edgy timeline. It therefore fuses two assumptions of value. As much as Art is a term with an evaluative dimension, refering back to the idealist notion of a trans-historical truth and disinterestedness, contemporary is a slightly unspecific designator of time because it can designate what is happening at this very moment but also point to the last ten years. Speakers: Alexander Alberro, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Jack Bankowsky. Response: Vanessa Joan Muller, Stefan Deines, Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum. To be continued...