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96 Pages - Black & White - Published 2004
ISBN: 82-92495-01-0 ISSN: 1503-8467
The double edition, How to Look at Art-Talk, Aesthetics, Capitalism deals with the issues debated in the seminar 'How to Look at Art-Talk' at Momentum 2004, Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art. The seminar borrowed its main title from the abstract painter Ad Reinhardt and his panel How to look at Art-Talk from 1946.
The Momentum Seminar Program 2004 was a collaboration between the Office for Contemporary Art Norway and Momentum.
The subject for part one of the seminar, 'How to Look at Aesthetics', was introduced by Ina Blom (associate professor, University of Oslo, Norway). In this part, Nicolas Bourriaud (co-director, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France) and Alexander Alberro (assistant professor, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA) discussed very different but related aspects of contemporary art; Bourriaud discussed the legacy of his own terms 'relational aesthetics' and 'postproduction', while Alberro took a closer look at the heated debate on the 'return to traditional aesthetics' typical of recent art debates. Opponents were Lars Bang Larsen (art historian, Spain/Denmark) and Sara Arrhenius (director, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden).
The second part of the seminar, 'How to Look at Capitalism' was
introduced by Ute Meta Bauer (director, Offi ce for Contemporary Art
Norway, Norway/Germany). Keynote speakers Roger M. Buergel
(artistic director, Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany) and Sabeth
Buchmann (professor, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna,
Austria/Germany) both took avant-garde fi lm classics from the early
seventies as their starting point, thus locating their discourse on
art and politics in the early stages of the globalized information
society. This allowed them to discover some of the visual
archetypes to which we still relate today.
Opponents were Gertrud Sandqvist (principal, Malmö Art Academy,
Sweden) and Eivind Røssaak (associate professor, Telemark
University College; PhD candidate, University of Oslo, Norway).
CONTENTS
Jonas Ekeberg
Introduction
Part one
Ina Blom
Introduction To How To Look at Aesthetics
Nicolas Bourriaud
How to Look at Art-Talk
Lars Bang Larsen
A Short Response to Nicholas Bourriaud
Alexander Alberro
Fear Eats The Soul
Sara Arrhenius
Fatal Beauty
Part two
Ute Meta Bauer
Introduction To How To Look At Capitalism
Roger M. Buergel
An Invitation To Think About Curatorial Methods
Gertrud Sandqvist
How To Look At Capitalism + Dialogue with Buergel
Sabeth Buchmann
Illusionism Revisited
Eivind Røssaak
The Politics of Melodrama
