the Cooper Union School of Art Interdisciplinary Seminar
Anselm Franke
What is the Place of the Exhibition in the Modern Cosmography? co-hosted through e-flux journal
This lecture took place on April 26th, 2010 at 6:30 pm in the Wollman Auditorium at the Cooper Union
Lecture introduction
This lecture takes its cue from Bruno Latour’s attempts at turning anthropology back onto modernity. It seeks to position the institution of art within what Latour has termed the “modern constitution” - a conceptual mapping derived from binary classifications such as “nature” and “culture”. Situating the museum and the modern institution of art within this conceptual outline - compared with its other “official” modes of representation - enables novel perspectives on the implicit scripts and contracts inscribed into the space of the exhibition, and their historical transformations and contemporary condition. The talk addresses framing conditions and their transgression by extending the mobilization of anthropological concepts for the examination of aesthetic economies and their political roles.
About Anselm Franke
Anselm Franke is a curator and writer based in Brussels and Berlin. Since 2006, he is artistic director of Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen. His latest project Animism is currently on view at Extra City and M HKA in Antwerp, and will be shown at Kunsthalle Bern, Generali Foundation, Vienna and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin subsequently.