Scrivener's Monthly: Antonia Hirsch Talking About Elements - Celestial, Material, Ideal - Magically Ordering Chaos Into Constellations
May 12, 2016
Description:
Scrivener’s Monthly presented an evening with Antonia Hirsch during which she mobilized some of the ideas and images that emerged in the making of her book Negative Space: Orbiting Inner and Outer Experience (2015). Following an introduction by director/curator of SFU Galleries Melanie O’Brian, Hirsch’s lecture and accompanying slideshow cited work by Theodor Adorno, Lorna Brown, Daniel Colucciello Barber, Elena Filipovic, François Laruelle, Olaf Nicolai, Lisa Robertson, Ana Teixeira Pinto, and Wolfgang Winkler to hone in on the question: what is the relevance of artwork at the intersection of two darknesses—on the inside and the outside of one’s skull?Video documentation of this event is available upon request.
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- Scrivener’s Monthly: Antonia Hirsch Talking About Elements—Celestial, Material, Ideal—Magically Ordering Chaos Into Constellations sign (2016).
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