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The Film and Visual Culture Research Seminar - The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art
Dr. Shaked will present key ideas from her book 'The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art', which examines the impact of Civil Rights, Black Power, the student, feminist and the sexual-liberty movements on conceptualism and its legacies in the United States between the late 1960s and the present. She will discuss the turn to political reference in practices originally concerned with philosophically abstract ideas, and traces key strategies in contemporary art today to the reciprocal influences of conceptualism and identity politics, movements that have so far been historicized as mutually exclusive. While identity-based strategies used by artists were particular, their impact spread far beyond the individuals or communities that originated them. By turning to social issues, these artists analyzed the cultural conventions embedded in modes of reference and representation such as language, writing, photography, moving image, or installation and exhibition display.
Dr. Nizan Shaked is Professor of Contemporary Art History, Museum and Curatorial Studies at California State University Long Beach, School of Art.
Free Event, no booking required.
- Speaker
- Dr Nizan Shaked
- Hosted by
- GWW Centre for Visual Culture and the Department of Film and Visual Culture
- Venue
- Room 224, The Sir Duncan Rice Library
- Contact
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School of Language, Literature, Music & Visual Culture
University of Aberdeen
King's College
Aberdeen AB24 3UB
Scotland
United KingdomTel: +44 (0)1224 272625
Email: langlit.school@abdn.ac.uk