Symposium om kunstkritik

Forskningsprojektet Kunsten som Forum er vært for det forestående symposium The promise and compulsion of art criticism’s universalism, som finder sted den 25. november på Københavns Universitet, Søndre Campus på Amager.

Ph.d. Frida Sandström, tilknyttet Kunsten som Forum, Mikkel Bolt og James Day fra Institut for Kunst- og Kulturvidenskab (IKK) samt Frederik Svensk fra Akademin Valand diskuterer kunstkritikken som praksis.
Hvordan kan kunstkritikken både være for eksperter og samtidig være tilgængelig for alle, og hvordan forholder den sig til de udfordringer, samtidens grænsesøgende kunst stiller?

Symposiet bliver afholdt på engelsk, og man kan læses mere om det her.

Arrangørerne skriver om symposiet:
“On the one hand critique, as judgment, is the proper domain of art criticism, while, on the other, the practice of judgment is operative in a host of other spheres in euro-modernity. In a period during which the boundaries of art tend to dissolve, it has become apparent that art criticism’s practice of delimiting and delineating boundaries, with its institutional lack of presupposed measures, is parallel to other border-drawing practices that constitute colonial, capitalist modernity.

The point of departure for the symposium is that this specific practice of delineating and delimiting boundaries, exercised in aesthetic judgements, finds expression in a promise immanent to the apparatus of the nation state, which is imposed directly on all social subjects. It presumes, in other words, the critical subject’s ability to speak by way of this border-drawing practice, even when it comes to pinpointing the crisis inherent to criticism itself, and which criticism in contradictory ways also strives to articulate.
From perspectives both within and outside the field of art and critical studies, the aim with the symposium is to collectively discuss the paradox immanent to art criticism and the aesthetic judgment.”

Kilde: Kunsten som Forum.