[-empyre-] Judith Rodenbeck at the IDC-- The Open Work: Participatory Art Since Silence

[Judith Rodenbeck]

Ah, that slipped out! A talk from 2006, when I broke my silence...

A bientot,

Judith

On 7/31/09 4:13 PM, "Christina McPhee" <christina at christinamcphee.net>
wrote:

> dear -empyre-
> 
> Our guest Judith Rodenbeck is featured here on audio.
> 
> 
> 
> The Open Work: Participatory Art Since Silence
> 
> http://www.archive.org/details/idc_judith_rodenbeck_lecture_02072006
> 
> 
> "...Yet this unwillingness to examine relational aesthetics with an
> eye on history is a defensive maneuver. As such it is one that needs
> to be taken on. This talk is an historical presentation addressed to
> some of the parameters under which the "interactive, user-friendly and
> relational" were actively explored-and critiqued--in key works of the
> 1950s and early 1960s."
> 
> 
> Tuesday, February 07
> 
> iDC Lecture by Dr. Judith Rodenbeck
> 
> (introduction by Trebor Scholz)
> 
> In the introduction to his 2002 book, Relational Aesthetics, the
> curator Nicolas Bourriaud writes that currently, "the liveliest factor
> that is played out on the chessboard of art has to do with
> interactive, user-friendly and relational concepts." Neither revival
> nor comeback, relational aesthetics, for Bourriaud, is the correct
> vanguardist response to a world saturated by mass communications. Part
> of the newness had to do, in Bourriaud's account, with asking what
> kind of art was possible after the doldrums of the 1980s, when the
> hegemony of "spectacle" seemed assured (via the alleged failures of
> May 1968), after institutional critique seemed to have run its course,
> and after any socially-engaged avant-garde had exhausted itself and
> the political patience of its adherents-and even, perhaps, the
> conditions of its possibility. "How are these apparently elusive works
> to be decoded, be they process-related or behavioral by ceasing to
> take shelter behind the sixties art history?" (Bourriaud, 7) Yet this
> unwillingness to examine relational aesthetics with an eye on history
> is a defensive maneuver. As such it is one that needs to be taken on.
> This talk is an historical presentation addressed to some of the
> parameters under which the "interactive, user-friendly and relational"
> were actively explored-and critiqued--in key works of the 1950s and
> early 1960s.
> 
> About Dr. Judith Rodenbeck:
> BA, Yale University. BFA, Massachusetts College of Art. MA, MPhil,
> PhD, Columbia University. Special interests in art since 1945 and its
> compositional strategies; intersections between modernist literature,
> philosophy, and the visual arts. Co-author and co-curator with
> Benjamin Buchloh of Experiments in the Everyday: Allan Kaprow and
> Robert Watts--events, objects, documents; contributor to catalogues
> for Work Ethic and Inside the Visible; author of articles for Grey
> Room, The Art Book, Documents, and P-Form. Recipient of fellowships,
> including Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Fellowship in American Art and
> Columbia University Mellon Fellowship for Art History.
> 
> 
> This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio
> 
> Keywords: "Bourriaud"; "participation"; "art"; "eco"; "Cage";
> "relational"; "aesthetics"
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