The Performative Museum a Storefront for Art and Architecture Salon hosted by Hal Foster
8 May 2015 \\ 6pm
Over the last decade, art museums have restaged many performances and dances, mostly from the 1960s and 1970s. Not quite live and not quite dead, these reenactments have introduced a zombie-like time into cultural institutions.
Sometimes this hybrid temporality, neither present nor past, takes on a gray tonality, not unlike that of the old photographs on which the reenactments are often based. Like these photos, the events seem both real and unreal, documentary and fictive. Sometimes, too, the spaces that present this undead art are imagined as gray; along with the white cube for painting and sculpture and the black box for projected-image art, "gray boxes" are envisioned to maintain such work in this state of suspended animation.
These and other phenomena will be discussed. The salon is hosted by Hal Foster, author of The Art-architecture Complex, with the participation of Sarah Oppenheimer and Julian Rose.
About Storefront Salon
Storefront Salon is a monthly intimate and informal gathering at Storefront's gallery that promotes dialogue connecting art and architecture to broader contemporary issues. These facilitated discussions bring together Storefront's members and the general public to discuss and dissect the role of culture in the most recent and relevant public debates.
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