Auguste Orts
Newsletter #17, an evening with Auguste Orts #8: TJ DEMOS ON ART AND THE CRISIS OF GLOBALIZATION

Thursday February 04, 14.00, Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE)
Talk. Admission free. Limited seats, booking advised

This is the second in a series of small-scale meetings on topics related to the Orts members' art practice. Critic, curator and art historian TJ Demos (US) teaches in the Department of Art History, University College London. Recently the director of the London-based research project 'Zones of Conflict: Rethinking Contemporary Art During Global Crisis' (2008-09), he is currently a research fellow at the Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts in Brussels, where he is working on a new book on contemporary art and globalization. Under the title 'Art and the Crisis of Globalization', TJ Demos' talk will look closely at how contemporary art intersects with the conflicts of global cultural politics. To address this question, he will present a couple of group exhibitions with which he has been involved as a curator

For your reading pleasure:

TJ Demos, 'Moving Images of Globalization' Grey Room, no. 37 (Fall 2009), pp. 6-29
TJ Demos, 'Image Wars' Zones of Conflict, ed. T.J. Demos (New York: Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 2008)



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