Artist talk by Andrea Fraser
What is at stake for participants in Contemporary Art?
Public talk by Andrea Fraser
Monday 25th of November 2013
1-3 pm
Funen Art Academy, The Auditorium
Brandts Torv 1, 4th Floor
5000 Odense
Free entrance
Andrea Fraser has been invited to the Funen Art Academy to contribute to a series of roundtable seminars that explore institutional critique in art as a micro-political anthropology. The Los Angeles-based artist will be talking about her work, which has been identified with performance, feminism, context art and institutional critique.
Andrea Fraser was a founding member of the feminist performance group The V-Girls (1986-1996), the project-based artist initiative Parasite (1997-1998) and the cooperative art gallery Orchard (2005-2008). She was also co-organizer (with Helmut Draxler) of Services, a “working-group exhibition” that toured to seven venues in Europe and the United States between 1994 and 2001. Andrea Fraser is a member of the faculty of the Whitney Independent Study Program and professor of New Genres in the Department of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The seminars, led by the artist and visiting professor Sidsel Meineche Hansen, explore micro-political anthropology as a speculative term for considering one’s relationship to oneself and the relationship between individual and society. Firstly, by examining the sensory and intellectual system of the body as the space of institutional critique, and secondly, by critically questioning the institutional structures in society constitutive of citizenship and the gender, race, and class divide. During the course of the semester, the roundtable seminars will bring together practitioners and thinkers from the fields of art, activism, political theory, philosophy, neuroscience and psychiatry whose work will provide a flexible foundation for dealing with these ideas. Informed by the cross-disciplinary presentations and discussions within the student group, the aim of the seminars is to develop an institutional critique that is situationally specific and to consider organisational forms as part of the art making process. For more information about the series: http://labourpower.co.uk/seminars/political-anthropology/
This presentation is kindly supported by The Obel Family Foundation and is part of a larger project Funen Art Academy is developing which focuses on collaborations with the US.
