Material for thought
Posted in art on Dec 20th, 2008
I attended a one week long course entitled ‘Introduction to curating contemporary art‘, held at the Chelsea College of Art and Design. It was a dense introduction to the history of curating, to what are the dilemmas of curators and to how practically organize an exhibition. Half of the time was spent on theoretical texts, [...]
Posted in art on Nov 29th, 2008
Check out my two new videos: ‘At the bus stop‘ and ‘Automaton‘. They form together an installation that I have called ‘Breath’, because it depicts the consciousness’s breath, its pace, its repetition. The only possible way to classify this work is art, not because I unilaterally declare its superiority, but because it fits in no [...]
Posted in philosophy on Nov 3rd, 2008
Education was under scrutiny yesterday at the Mary Ward center. The debate, introduced and chaired by Anja Steinbauer from pfa London, was indeed fundamental. What is the value of education, is it formative in the sense that it changes your nature, does it make you a better person or citizen? And how to judge if [...]
Posted in philosophy on Oct 26th, 2008
This Saturday was held the Joe McCarney Memorial Conference at the London knowledge lab. It was organized by the Marx and philosophy society in honor of one of their lost co-founder. Here is an analysis of the first speech given by Kai Nielsen ‘Emancipatory Social Science: McCarney and Levine’. I would sadly not be able [...]
Posted in art on Oct 19th, 2008
Last weekend was the weekend of the year for art admirers in London, with numerous events and fairs being held in the megalopolis. The Zoo art fair is the second most important fair after Frieze art and focuses on emerging galleries . It is held at the Royal academy of arts which gives to the [...]
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