Lectures by Brian Holmes and Eric Kluitenberg and presentation 'Open' 21 on (Im)Mobility.
Programme
October 9, 2011
2 PM
Introduction Jorinde Seijdel
Open 21 (Im)mobility. Exploring the Limits of Hypermobility
2:30 PM
Lecture Brian Holmes
What Sustains a Public Sphere? Solidarity in the Post-Liberal Societies
3:15 PM
Lecture Eric Kluitenberg
The Global Im/Mobility Privilege
4 PM
End
Brian Holmes is a cultural critic living at present in Chicago. Holmes works on crisis theory and technopolitics. All his texts are obtainable free of charge
here.
For decades, the critique of neoliberalism has been a paying proposition for left-leaning artists and intellectuals. Amidst the Internet and real-estate booms, a fragile mix of enlightenment and entrepreneurial values preserved some space for theories of radical democracy. Today, financial turmoil and its hard-right political consequences have laid that ambiguity to rest. In this lecture, Brian Holmes reopens the debate about the practical basis for an aesthetics of equality. The first step toward new institutions of solidarity, he argues, is to understand one's own position on the margins.
Eric Kluitenberg is a writer and curator who focuses on culture, media and technology, living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Recent publications include Book of Imaginary Media (2006) and Delusive Spaces (essays, 2008).
The right to freedom of movement is enshrined in international systems of law and power that offer little space for individual influence or control. Our examination of the global regimes of im/mobility revealed how deeply the transnational is rooted in specific local constellations, which offer the optimal point of intervention.
Jorinde Seijdel is editor in chief of Open. Cahier on Art and the Public Domain.
Immigrant Movement International (IM International) is a five-year project initiated by artist Tania Bruguera. Its mission is to help define the immigrant as a unique, new global citizen in a post-national world and to test the concept of arte útil or 'useful art', in which artists actively implement the merger of art into society’s urgent social, political and scientific issues. Year one of Immigrant Movement International is supported by The Queens Museum of Art, located in Queens’ historic Flushing Meadows Corona Park, and CreativeTime, a public art organization that sponsors art and artists all over New York City.
