Series of public lectures<\/a><\/p>\nBoris Buden: Art and Critique in Curating the Past<\/strong>
\nLecture and discussion
\nFebruary 5 and 6, 2015, at 6 pm<\/strong>
\nTrubarjeva hi\u0161a literature (Stritarjeva 7, Ljubljana)
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\nLECTURE
\nThursday, February 5, 2015, at 6 pm<\/strong>
\nTrubarjeva hi\u0161a literature (Stritarjeva 7, Ljubljana)
\nThe lecture will be held in English.<\/p>\nThe crisis of art criticism can be seen as a moment of the general crises of history. In a way similar to the old social critique, which has lost its historical perspective, art criticism is also no longer interested in discursively connecting the past of today\u2019s art practices with their future. Rather, it follows art\u2019s own discursive interest in the past in general. It shares art\u2019s fascination with what has replaced the former historiography \u2013 memory, in the various modalities of its cultural articulations: archives, documents, acts of unearthing and excavating, performative reconstructions and reenactments, testimonies, etc. Twenty-five years ago, Francis Fukuyama envisioned a world in which art and philosophy have been replaced by a perpetual caretaking of the museum of human history. Has art criticism today, together with a remarkable number of contemporary artists, all too easily identified with the task of curating the past?<\/p>\n