Talk

The MA Curatorial Practice program at the School of Visual Arts is pleased to announce four special seminar sessions open to the public, the first in an ongoing series bringing world-renowned artists, curators and thinkers to a global audience for presentations and discussions. These events bring leading voices to all, with the chance to attend online, listen to the speakers’ presentations and then engage them directly in discussion during each 90-minute seminar. The topics focus on artists and exhibition-making, while also extending into more wide-ranging subjects—a unique opportunity for a worldwide exchange of ideas. For each session, a reading will be available in advance for all those who register.

On April 15 at 12:00pm EST on Zoom, Maria Lind, the Counsellor of Cultural Affairs at the Embassy of Sweden in Moscow and formerly director of the Testa konsthall, will present "Art & Life in Critical Zones."

Set in the Russian provincial capital of Izhevsk, Lind’s new exhibition, "Art & Life in Critical Zones," homes in on artists whose practices break from the centuries-long idea that there is a split between nature and culture, signaling new ways to inhabit what French philosopher Bruno Latour calls "critical zones"—"the skin of the living earth" now at a moment of incredible fragility, calling out for extraordinary re-thinking of such things as land, landscape, territory and homeland.