Ina Blom
On The Style Site. Art, Sociality and Media Culture
(New York: Sternberg Press), 2007

Ina Blom

On The Style Site. Art, Sociality and Media Culture (New York: Sternberg Press)

Book Launch and Discussion

A Collaboration Beetween Office for Contemporary Art Norway and Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo

Friday, 16 November, 19:00
Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Back Entrance

Refreshments will be served.

In collaboration with the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo, OCA announces a talk and book launch by Ina Blom in relation to her recently authored book, On The Style Site. Art, Sociality and Media Culture (New York: Sternberg Press). Ina Bloom is an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo. She has written extensively on modern and contemporary art and is also active as an art critic.

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While the terminology of style has all but disappeared from recent art critical and art historical discourse, artistic practice of the last decades has increasingly focused on the stylistics of the social environment, the way in which every aspect of life is emphatically formed, designed, and stylized. In On The Style Site. Art, Sociality and Media Culture, Ina Blom argues that this development calls for a new reading of the relationship between art and the "question of style", one that approaches style not just as an art historical tool or method of explanation but as a social site in which the relations between appearance and social identity are negotiated.

The artworks discussed in this book treat style as precisely such a site, and could therefore be discussed in extension of what is generally known as "site specific practices" in art. However, the style site works may open for a different interpretation of the politics of such artistic practices, as well as placing the life-art ideal of the 20^th century avant-gardes in a new light. Such reinterpretation becomes possible as the negotiations of the contemporary style site are related to the significance of style in an information economy increasingly set on capturing the forces of life itself.

Office for Contemporary Art Norway

The Office for Contemporary Art Norway is a private foundation and was founded by The Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs and The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Fall 2001. The main aim of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway is to develop collaborations in contemporary art between Norway and the international art scene. The Office for Contemporary Art Norway aims to become a profiled contributor to the discourses of contemporary art.