Seminars and Public Lectures by International Guests at FFA: Giovanni Aloi and Charles Esche
During November 2024, as part of the regular block doctoral teaching at FFA BUT, special seminars and lectures by international guests will take place. In the winter semester of 2024/2025, these will feature theorists and curators Giovanni Aloi and Charles Esche. In addition to seminar teaching aimed primarily at first and second-year doctoral students, the international guests will also provide personal consultations, prioritising doctoral candidates in the final stages of their dissertation writing. Lectures and discussions open to the public will be held at the House of the Lords of Kunštát (Vašulka Kitchen Brno, Dominikánská 9) on 7 and 19 November 2024.
- THURSDAY 7/11/2024
10.00–14.00, FFA BUT, room no. 325/U2
Teaching Module by Giovanni Aloi
A seminar based on text studies and case studies, with a focus on critical reflection on the Anthropocene and speculative phytopoetics. The seminar will be conducted as part of the regular block teaching for FFA doctoral candidates.
16.00, House of the Lords of Kunštát (VKB, Dominikánská 9)
Giovanni Aloi – Plant Politics: Uncontainable Vegetal Agencies
Giovanni Aloi explores the ideological foundations underpinning the relationships between humans and plants in art, illustrating how these have been shaped by colonialist, capitalist, and ecological forces. Working with plants in contemporary art signifies a move beyond objectifying tropes that have defined past philosophical approaches, to seriously and responsibly engage with cultural and ecological systems of interconnectivity. The artists featured in this lecture work with plants through diverse media and in various geographic contexts, yet they all share the ability to highlight the political agency of plants that cannot be overlooked.
- FRIDAY 8/11/2024
10.00–16.00, FFA BUT, room no. 333/U2
Block of Personal Consultations for FFA Doctoral Candidates
- TUESDAY 19/11/2024
10.00–16.00, FFA BUT, room no. 216/U2
Teaching Module by Charles Esche
A seminar based on text studies and case studies related to the curating of international exhibitions and close collaboration between curators and artists. The seminar will be conducted as part of the regular block teaching for FFA doctoral candidates.
18.00, House of the Lords of Kunštát (VKB, Dominikánská 9)
Charles Esche – Demodernising to decolonise. Art museums in the present
The talk will focus on the current research on decolonising and demodernising museums, exhibitions and collections. It will also look at some artistic practices and concrete examples that seek to unravel long western European traditions of superiority and universality. In particular, the lecture will look at the exhibition and collection policy in the Van Abbemuseum but also at examples from São Paulo Bienal, Documenta that are in search of a propositional form of art and exhibition making. Charles Esche hopes that art can sometimes be an effective way to imagine relations differently across the planet.
- WEDNESDAY 20/11/2024
10.00–14.00, FFA BUT, room no. 333/U2
Block of Personal Consultations for FFA Doctoral Candidates
More information about the guests:
Giovanni Aloi's research focuses on critical reflection on the Anthropocene, representations of nature in modern and contemporary art, climate change, and sustainability. Another significant area of Aloi's interest is the history of the art market and how economic factors influence artistic production and writing about art. He currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is the editor-in-chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture (www.antennae.org.uk). He has contributed to BBC radio programmes, worked at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Galleries, and is currently also the US correspondent for the magazine Esse. Giovanni Aloi is a co-editor of the "Art after Nature" series published by the University of Minnesota Press and the author of books including Art & Animals (2011), Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene (2018), Why Look at Plants? The Vegetal Emergence in Contemporary Art (2019), Lucian Freud – Herbarium (2019), and Posthumanism in Art and Science (2020). https://www.aloi.info
Charles Esche is the director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and also a professor at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, maintaining active contact with the academic environment. In his current interdisciplinary projects, he addresses the consequences of decolonisation and the possibilities of applying demodernisation to our thinking in the face of the decolonial challenge. In recent years, he has also focused on analysing narratives within museum collections and exploring the cultural and political histories of exhibition-making. For the current season at the Van Abbemuseum, he has curated a series of exhibitions focused on ecological themes in art. Esche has co-curated the São Paulo Biennial, the U3 Triennial in Ljubljana, the Riwaq Biennial, the Istanbul Biennial, and other significant international exhibitions. https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/306-charles-esche
The lectures and personal consultations are held with financial support from the European Union through the National Recovery Plan and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
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