{"id":4032,"date":"2016-11-10T15:55:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T13:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/current\/?p=4032"},"modified":"2018-09-25T14:01:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T12:01:20","slug":"fouad-asfour-unlearning-art-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/archives\/4032","title":{"rendered":"Fouad Asfour: Unlearning Art Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Together with <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.igorzabel.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory<\/a><\/b> we cordially invite you to attend the public lecture by<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fouad Asfour: Unlearning Art Writing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, 7 December 2016, 4 pm<\/strong><br \/>\n+MSUM, Maistrova 3, Ljubljana<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Tu0tnLg-fcg?rel=0\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4036 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/How-critical-is-2016-credits.jpg\" alt=\"How Critical Is the Condition of Critical Writing?\" width=\"1000\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/How-critical-is-2016-credits.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/How-critical-is-2016-credits-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/How-critical-is-2016-credits-768x329.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In December we will continue with series of public lectures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/16th-season-2016-2018\/series-of-public-lectures-how-critical-is-the-condition-of-critical-writing\"><strong><em>How Critical Is the Condition of Critical Writing?<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, a reflection on the current role and status of criticism in visual arts.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the lecture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writing on art moves between different spaces of publication and discursive fields. Art discourse around the world is struggling in complex and shifting tension between the art market, contemporary art, and exhibition practices. It necessitates a critical reflection of discourses on \u201cglobalized art\u201d as well as of the relation between art writing and art education.<\/p>\n<p>My lecture interrogates the conditions of art writing by critically reflecting upon the colonial matrix of power in art education. Using examples from contemporary art, I will argue that the <em>disobedient body <\/em>of the writer to become visible through a <em>change in voice<\/em>, through <em>linguistic guerrilla<\/em> (Moroccan writer Mohamed Khair-Eddine) and <em>linguistic terrorism<\/em> (Chicana feminist and queer theorist Gloria Anzaldua).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4033\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Fouad-Asfour.jpg\" alt=\"Fouad Asfour\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" align=\"left\" \/><strong>Fouad Asfour<\/strong>,\u00a0art writer, editor, and linguist, works in collaborative frameworks on publications, exhibitions, performances, and art exchange projects. He has worked for various art institutions and research projects, was part of the <em>documenta 12<\/em> magazines project, and is a member of the artist collective the Dead Revolutionaries Club. In 2011 he initiated the independent publishing project Pole Pole Press and is the co-founder of the self-organized student support initiative Thekgo Bursary (now in collaboration with Canon Collins Trust). He holds an MA in linguistics from Vienna University and is currently completing an MA in creative writing at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He lives between Johannesburg and Vienna. In 2008 he was a grant recipient of the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Photo: SCCA-Ljubljana archive<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4032 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Fouad-Asfour-lecture-1.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[4032]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Fouad-Asfour-lecture-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Fouad-Asfour-lecture-2.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[4032]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Fouad-Asfour-lecture-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Fouad-Asfour-lecture-3.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[4032]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Fouad-Asfour-lecture-3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Fouad-Asfour-lecture-4.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[4032]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Fouad-Asfour-lecture-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<p>This lecture is part of the programme <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/16th-season-2016-2018\/series-of-public-lectures-how-critical-is-the-condition-of-critical-writinghttp:\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/15th-season-2014-2016\/series-of-lectures-on-curatorial-and-institutional-practice\">How Critical Is the Condition of Critical Writing?<\/a><em>.<\/em> Organized by: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igorzabel.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory<\/a>, World of Art \/ SCCA\u2013Ljubljana; in collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mg-lj.si\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MG+MSUM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7606\" title=\"Svet umetnosti \/ World of Art\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/woa120.gif\" alt=\"Svet umetnosti \/ World of Art\" width=\"110\" height=\"80\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7607\" title=\"Dru\u0161tvo Igor Zabel za kulturo in teorijo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/igor_zabel_logo.png\" alt=\"Dru\u0161tvo Igor Zabel za kulturo in teorijo\" width=\"93\" height=\"58\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MGMSUM_logo.png\" alt=\"MG+MSUM\" width=\"170\" height=\"29\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Supported by: City of Ljubljana \u2013 Department for Culture, ERSTE Foundation and Goethe-Institut Ljubljana.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4034 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/logoti-predavanje-kritika2016_3.jpg\" alt=\"Supported by: City of Ljubljana \u2013 Department for Culture, ERSTE Foundation and Goethe-Institut Ljubljana\" width=\"450\" height=\"74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/logoti-predavanje-kritika2016_3.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/logoti-predavanje-kritika2016_3-300x49.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture Unlearning Art Writing by Fouad Asfour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,11,10,15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-criticism","category-lectures","category-news","category-video","category-year-16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4032"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4983,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions\/4983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}