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FRIDAY, 24 NOVEMBER
2006 |
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CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS |
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350 SAUCHIEHALL
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GLASGOW G2 3JD |
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CCA, EMERGED and THE
GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART are thrilled to announce a special talk and book
launch by internationally renowned theorist NIKOS
PAPASTERGIADIS.
This lecture marks the launch
of the recently published book by NIKOS PAPASTERGIADIS titled
Spatial
Aesthetics: Art Place and the Everyday (2006),
which explores the new processes, contexts and relations through which
contemporary art is produced. The aim of the book is not only to map out
the interventions that artists have made in specific places, or to account
for the political consequences of their gestures, but to see how the interconnection
of these actions is part of an ongoing attempt to grasp the emerging senses
of identity and the complex forms of relations with others that occur in
everyday life. Structured around the themes of the everyday, cultural identity
and place, Spatial Aesthetics traces the complex
patterns of cultural exchange and the diverse forms of social interaction
that inspire artists.
NIKOS PAPASTERGIADIS is Associate Professor
and Researcher at The Australian Centre of The University of Melbourne.
He was educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Cambridge.
Prior to his current post, he was Head of the Centre for Ideas at the Victorian
College of Arts, lecturer in Sociology, and the recipient of the Simon
Fellowship at the University of Manchester. In 2005 he was invited to be
the guest Professor at the University of Malmo, Sweden and the York University,
Canada. Over the past 10 years he has been invited to speak at numerous
international conferences, and his essays have been widely published in
translation.
This event is in conjunction with the CCA
BOOK FAIR.
