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| [Nettime-bold] Boris Groys / The Art Judgement Show |
From: "roomade" <office@roomade.org> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:36 PM Subject: Boris Groys / The Art Judgement Show ROOMADE PRESENTS BORIS GROYS THE ART JUDGEMENT SHOW OORDELEN OVER KUNST COMMENT JUGER L'ART 21.09-01 20.10.01 ROOMADE, KOOPLIEDENSTRAAT 60-62, B 1000 BRUSSELS WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY, FROM 2PM THROUGH 7PM The Art Judgement Show is a television talk show that asks the question, 'How does one judge art?' Modelling himself on chat-show hosts such as Arabella and Oprah, the distinguished art historian and philosopher Boris Groys discusses with a group of students whether today, 'art' still has any relevance, whether it is significantly different from commercial pursuits such as advertising, design and popular music, and what criteria should be used in order to evaluate it. Although the issues this raises, relating to language, taste, art discourse and philosophy, are often relegated to a purely academic field, TV lends itself well to such culturally relevant questions. Most initiatives to adapt philosophy to the television format, however, end with trivial chats in front of an electronic fire. In The Art Judgement Show, Groys follows the opposite path, bringing fascinating philosophical conversation in an accessible form to the general public just as Socrates found his interlocutors in the market square. Boris Groys is Professor of Aesthetics and Media Theory at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe and since 2000 Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He is one of the most influential theoreticians in the fields of contemporary art and culture. He has published widely on modernism and the avant-garde and is the author of many books, including The Total Art of Stalinism (1988), On the New: Essay on Cultural Economy (1992), and Logic of the Collection (1997), he is a frequent contributor to Parkett, Artforum, Art in America and has written on such contemporary artists as Ilya Kabakov, Peter Fischil & David Weiss, Douglas Gordon, Rodney Graham, and Richard Prince. ----------------------------------------------- Boris Groys The Art Judgement Show Barbara Vanderlinden (Ed.), Zdenka Badovinac and Boris Groys 240 x 200 mm 160 pages, 132 colour and b/w images ISBN 90-71122-01-8 Available through: Benelux Roomade Koopliedenstraat 60-62 B-1000 Brussels T: +32-2-223 26 73 F: +32-2-219 12 79 E: office@roomade.org Worldwide D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers 155 Sixth Avenue NY USA - 10013 NY T: +1-212-627 1999 F: +1-212-627 9484 _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold