[4eyes] Fwd: [faculty] OTOLITH GROUP LECTURE PERFORMANCE "THE OBJECT SPOKE TO ME BUT WHAT IT SAID, I CANNOT SAY" - TOMORROW, FRIDAY 3pm, CNSI ELINGS HALL (gather in SYSTEMICS LAB)

[Tobias Hollerer]

FYI:
MAT lecture/performance in an hour.

The Systemics lab is the one behind the Foglab, right of 2809.

Cheers,

     Tobias




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Subject: 	[faculty] OTOLITH GROUP LECTURE PERFORMANCE "THE OBJECT SPOKE 
TO ME BUT WHAT IT SAID, I CANNOT SAY" - TOMORROW, FRIDAY 3pm, CNSI 
ELINGS HALL (gather in SYSTEMICS LAB)
Date: 	Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:58:46 +0000
From: 	Marko Peljhan <peljhan at mat.ucsb.edu>
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OTOLITH GROUP - LECTURE/PERFORMANCE, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4, 2011, MEDIA ARTS 
AND TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMICS LAB, CNSI ELINGS HALL, 3pm

TITLE:  The Object spoke to me but what it said, I cannot say.

DESCRIPTION: The performance lecture by The Otolith Group thinks through 
different methods for constructing relations between aesthetics and 
financial crisis, between artistic practice and the making visible of 
the economy. Situating itself within the context of contemporary 
Britain, the lecture works with three theories, each of which seeks to 
map the present: capitalist realism, as developed by Mark Fisher, 
capitalist sorcery, as formulated by Isabelle Stengers and Philipe 
Pignarre, and communicative capitalism, as theorised by Jodi Dean.




The Otolith Group

The Otolith Group is an award winning artist led collective and 
organisation founded by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun in 2002 that 
integrates film and video making, artists writing, workshops, exhibition 
curation, publication and developing public platforms for the close 
readings of the image in contemporary society. The Group's work is 
formally engaged with research led projects exploring the legacies and 
potentialities of artists led proposals around the document and the 
essay film, the archive, the aural and sonic medium, speculative futures 
and science-fictions.

Nationally and internationally, the Group have produced work that acts 
as a platform to develop wider relations to the production of the 
experimental in moving image practice. They have organized workshops, 
discussions and curated and co-curated work at film festivals, 
programmes and exhibitions including the touring exhibition The Ghosts 
of Songs: A Retrospective of The Black Audio Film Collective 1982-1998, 
Harun Farocki. 22 Films: 1968-2009 at Tate Modern and the touring 
programme Protest conceived as part of the Essentials: The Secret 
Masterpieces of Cinema commissioned by the Independent Cinema Office.

In 2010 The Otolith Group were nominated for the Turner Prize.

In 2011 The Otolith Group will be presenting their work on several 
platforms internationally and in the UK will launch a project in 
development with the theorist and blogger Mark Fisher. In November 2011 
The Otolith Group will co-curate a major conference on the militant 
image at The Institute of Visual Arts. This conference announces a three 
year curated exhibition series the Group are developing in collaboration 
with Grant Watson at Iniva, Ros Gray and other key partner organisations.

The Otolith group is currently visiting UCSB for research/presentation 
purposes.