A Book about Collecting and Exhibiting Conceptual Art after Conceptual Art ++++++++_++++ Publication on occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Generali Foundation, Vienna Conceptual art is a bunk... Its a felt, its feeling, its felt (Robert Smithson) Symposium on occasion of the 3rd anniversary exhibition in 2013, Against Method December 12, 2013, 5–8pm A Book about Collecting and Exhibiting Conceptual Art after Conceptual Art Eds. Sabine Folie, Georgia Holz, Ilse Lafer With texts by Sabeth Buchmann, Juli Carson, Guillaume Désanges, Helmut Draxler, Sabine Folie, Christian Höller, Eve Meltzer, Gertrud Sandqvist, Luke Skrebowski, Ian Wallace, Camiel van Winkel, and a conversation between Hal Foster and Helmut Draxler German/English, 530 pages, 430 color- and b&w-illustrations, hardcover Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne Conceptual art is a bunk... Its a felt, its feeling, its felt (Robert Smithson) The symposium takes up themes and motifs in Gertrud Sandqvists exhibition Against Method—the curator chose the title as a reference to Paul Feyerabends widely read book Against Method: Outline of an Anarchist Theory of Knowledge (1975), in which he turns against the rationalist methodology of a theory of science aiming for universal validity and casts doubt on the scientific ambition to attain knowledge through the application of exact and systematic methods. He instead proposes irrational means as the basis for experimental research. Scientists, he argues, should adapt approaches from the arts. Feyerabends critique came during the heyday of conceptual art, when artists, for their part, sought to integrate structuralism and scientific methodology into their work. The various contributions to the symposium address the interrelations between structuralism and conceptual art and elaborate on the question: to which extent did the appropriation of structuralist theories bring conceptual art to the limits of its attempts at rationalization? Eve Meltzers lecture investigates the reintegration of the human subject into conceptual works and examines how affect and system condition and complement each other. The artist Joachim Koester, meanwhile, explores the analysis of the non-rational in Sol LeWitts writings and minimalist objects. Elisabeth von Samsonow and the artist Ida-Marie Corell collaborate to stage a performance-lecture, a critical dialogue on the question of method and the production of knowledge. 5:15pm Systems We Have Loved: Lecture by Eve Meltzer, art historian 6pm Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists: Lecture by Joachim Koester, artist 6:45pm Hybrid Knowledge: Lecture-performance by Elisabeth von Samsonow, philosopher, and Ida-Marie Corell, artist 7:30pm Round-table discussion with all panelists Moderator: Gertrud Sandqvist, curator Preview: 2014 program Were I made of matter, I would color. Retrospective Ulrike Grossarth January 24–June 29, 2014 Textiles: Open Letter September 19, 2014–February 1, 2015
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