The lecture is a compounded version of Igor's Zenzerovic most recent lecture performance “A prompt on quitting art’’. Through the confabulation of work, life and art of five artists and his own, artist will try to generate deeper theoretical implications of ‘quitting art’ as a post-conceptual art practice.
Lozano, Duchamp, Hsieh, Bas Ader, D'Arcangelo, Posenenske: all of them left art in a profound and inspiring way. The questions, language and trajectory of our line of questioning will be grounded in these five seminal expressions of ‘quitting art’. Their phantasmal non-presence in art history and their fascinating lives/works, allow us to chart multiple paths through slippery ontologies of art and a transformative politics of everyday life.
In addition, artist will present his own metanalysis of socio-economical statuses of artists around the world based on his anthropological and comparative reading of the most contemporary research literature available.
Current discourses produced by disciplines interested in contemporary conditions of quitting, amalgamate life and art in a background woven by agencies of interweaving flows and systems, yet they always presuppose an ‘outside’ of art. While feeling through binaries (life, art, work, job), we try to uncover what late-capitalist practices obscure these fluid dynamics, contrasting them with the open-endedness pursued by some artists.
How can non-art labour have such an influence on the fate of an artwork and how did it come to be that we are OK with this? There are many unseen, unsung, and 'unnecessary' battlefields artists are always engaged with, with this lecture Igor Zenzerovic wants to open up a new one. Let a new wound fester in sunlight!
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