{"id":734,"date":"2013-12-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kdm.akbild.ac.at\/?p=734"},"modified":"2024-04-09T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T10:53:18","slug":"seminar-juli-carson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kdm.akbild.ac.at\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"Seminar: Juli Carson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:2px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aesthetics of Repetition: the Case for Oscar Masotta<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dezember 12, 2013 &#8211; Semperdepot 1.Stock &#8211; Medienklasse (I27)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Juli Carson<\/strong>&nbsp;will present and discuss a \u201ccase study\u201d for a practice of repetition, one conceived in Buenos Aires by Oscar Masotta amidst an onslaught of military coups that would eventually lead to the Dirty War of the 1970s and 1980s. On this Argentine field we encounter Masotta\u2019s Lacanian interpretation of the happening, a model that lays the foundation for a psychoanalytic branch of conceptualism highly relevant today for a group of international, contemporary artists interested in critical aesthetics\u2013that tripartite investigation of art, politics, and theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Masotta\u2019s times, critical aesthetics entailed simultaneously negotiating the strategies of the neo-avant-garde, a wave of military coups, and the introduction of Lacan\u2019s theorization of the subject. This combination of disciplines, historical events, and intellectual ruminations now repeats among a select group of contemporary practitioners. But this repetition is no mere duplication&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:2px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/kdm.akbild.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/masotta2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-735\" style=\"width:500px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Newspaper image from 1966 anti-happening<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:2px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"175\" src=\"https:\/\/kdm.akbild.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/masotta1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-736\" style=\"width:498px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Oscar Masotta, Para inducer al espi\u0301ritu de la imagen,<br>Instituto Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1966.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:1px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Juli Carson<\/strong>\u00a0is Associate Professor in the Department of Art at UCIrvine where she directs the Critical and Curatorial MFA Program and the University Art Galleries. Her essays on conceptual art and psychoanalysis have been published in Art Journal, Documents, October, Texte Zur Kunst and X-Tra, as well as in numerous international anthologies and catalogues. She is author of Exile of the Imaginary: Politics, Aesthetics, Love (Vienna: Generali Foundation, 2007) and The Limits of Repre- sentation: Psychoanalysis and Critical Aesthetics (Buenos Aires: Letra Viva Press, 2011). Her forthcoming book, The Concep- tual Unconscious: A Poetics of Critique will be published by PoLyPen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/kdm.akbild.ac.at\/?p=734\"><img width=\"267\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/kdm.akbild.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/masotta2.png\" class=\"featured-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>THU 12.12.2013 <\/p>\n<p>Juli Carson\u00a0will present and discuss a \u201ccase study\u201d for a practice of repetition, one conceived in Buenos Aires by Oscar Masotta amidst an onslaught of military coups that would eventually lead to the Dirty War of the 1970s and 1980s. On this Argentine field we encounter Masotta\u2019s Lacanian interpretation of the happening, a model that lays the foundation for a psychoanalytic branch of conceptualism highly relevant today for a group of international, contemporary artists interested in critical aesthetics\u2013that tripartite investigation of art, politics, and theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kdm.akbild.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kdm.akbild.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kdm.akbild.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kdm.akbild.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kdm.akbild.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kdm.akbild.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/kdm.akbild.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kdm.akbild.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kdm.akbild.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kdm.akbild.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kdm.akbild.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}