Join us Thursday March 10th, 6:30-7:30pm for a dialogue with Professor, Art Historian, and Author Mechtild Widrich as she discusses her 2014 book Performative Monuments: The Rematerialisation of Public Art. Manchester University Press, series: "Rethinking Art's Histories, 2014
Performative Monuments: The Rematerialization of Public Art
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719091636/
Widrich's BIO:
I work on the intersection of contemporary art and architecture, on performance art and its mediation, on art in public space and the question of the public sphere, on contemporary monuments, and on aesthetic theory. My current project deals with global art geographies in Washington, D.C., Bucharest, and Singapore—in particular the role of contemporary art in relationship to national or regional interests under global conditions. I am interested in the power and means of representation, in the broader institutional and political context of artistic production, in issues of "authentic" and "bodily" experience under mediated conditions, and in urban dynamics. Another interest is theory; I am currently (with Andrei Pop) translating the 1853 book Aesthetics of Ugliness by the German philosopher Karl Rosenkranz (forthcoming 2015).
For more information about Mechtild see her faculty page at SAIC.
http://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/mechtildwidrich/