ART PAPERS Live! lecture with Ute Meta Bauer
May 12, 2009 at 3:31 pm by Jeremy Abernathy in Events, Visual Arts
The modern exhibition space is a strange beast. Some venues, like Atlanta’s Civic Center, are like giant cardboard dioramas; the building itself is an oversized rectangle filled with semi-permanent partitions that, depending on the current show, can be altered and retooled to suit the needs of the moment. Smart curators spend hundreds of hours planning the layout, spacial pacing, and atmospherics of an exhibition.
But I’m sure that’s only a small sliver of what MIT professor Ute Meta Bauer will cover in her talk, Scripted Spaces: The Exhibition as an Architecture of Discourse for ART PAPERS Live!. The last ART PAPERS Live!, a lecture by Saskia Sassen of Columbia University, proved to be a heady broth of sociology, political science, and blended linguistic theory.
The next ART PAPERS Live! begins this Wed., May 13 at 7 p.m., at the High Museum’s Hill Auditorium.
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Ute Meta Bauer is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Visual Arts Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. From 1996 to 2006, she was a Professor of Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. For over two decades, she has curated exhibitions with a focus on transdisciplinary formats linked to feminist and socio-political contexts.
Among her many other accomplishments, Bauer was artistic directer for the prestigious third Berlin Biennial and was responsible for First Story, a massive transdisciplinary exhibition of female artists, both celebrating and rigorously deconstructing of the idea women in culture. (The First Story website is quite fancy—not only is it gianormous, it even includes links to a dozen or so “femzines,” such as ROCKRGRL, and other counterculture tidbits.)
(Photo courtesy ART PAPERS magazine)
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