The 2018 Sackler Lecture Series marks the 50th anniversary of 1968, a seismic year of social and political upheaval. If in Western Europe and North America, 1968 tends to be treated as synonymous with the events of May in Paris and their powerful ripple effect, this series acknowledges the diversity of experiences and artistic practices around the world that same year. In Argentina, a vanguard of artists collaborated with trade unions to put political intervention at the heart of their aesthetic programme, culminating in a landmark exhibition of solidarity with the rural poor of Tucumán. In the Eastern Bloc, all eyes were on the stunning reforms underway as part of the so-called Prague Spring. Briefly promising to deliver ‘socialism with a human face’, these were crushed by the Warsaw Pact invasion of 21 August. Our speakers – Pierre Buraglio, David Crowley, Darby English, Briony Fer, Joan Kee and Ana Longoni – will open up the art historical arena of ‘1968’ from an array of cultural, formal and geographical perspectives.
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Mon 15 Jan, 2018 Research Forum
A history of detail – or thin...
This talk addresses the crisis of scale in contemporary criticism. Taking a cue from Foucault’s remark that he wanted to write a History of Detail – a project that could be seen to emerge in…
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Mon 29 Jan, 2018 American Art
The King’s Two Bodies
‘The King’s Two Bodies’ considers a cast-metal replica of the building where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in April 1968. An object intended for manual as much as visual apprehension, the replica compels a…
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Mon 19 Feb, 2018 Sackler Lecture series
Noise and Silence in Prague, Warsaw...
In 1968 Hungarian artist Tamás Szentjóby painted bands of sulphur on the sides of a common brick to approximate the dials and switches of a portable radio. He had been inspired by stories of Czechoslovak teenagers diverting…
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Fri 9 Mar, 2018 Sackler Lecture series
Vulnerability and Real Time in the ...
1968 opened literally with a bang when North Korean commandos nearly succeeded in assassinating S. Korean president Park Chung-hee. Two days later, North Korea captured a U.S. Navy intelligence vessel, an incident that brought the…
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Mon 12 Mar, 2018 Sackler Lecture series
Vanguard and Revolution: The ’68 Ra...
PLEASE NOTE, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE ONGOING UCU INDUSTRIAL ACTION. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you. Ana Longoni is a writer, researcher of CONICET and professor in Universidad de Buenos…
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