Dear All,
It is of great pleasure to invite you on behalf of the VALS team to our upcoming lecture of Tania Bruguera on Tuesday, December 5, 6:30.
There is perhaps no other artist that has risen more conscious dialogue (and indeed at times controversy) when it comes to the Social role, possibilities, and responsibilities of artists within the political climate of our Globalizing, Post-Socialist, Neoliberalist world.
I will put a pause on my enthusiastic rambling mind and simply invite you to check some extra resources below and once again, just confess our excitement over the upcoming lecture.
Extra Resources:-bio by Guggenheim:-Her fabulous website:-her art21:-her conversation with our own recent VALS guest, Claire Bishop:-a very fascinating take by the incredible Coco Fusco on the controversy around her detention in 2015:and of course a Bomb interview:
And finally for the soul a bit of Foucault from his interview There Can’t Be Societies Without Uprisings
“That’s where we meet back up again with this conception of Uprising I was just talking about. The Idea that the role of the intellectual is to show how this reality that’s presented to us as self-evident and taken for granted is in fact fragile”
Thank you,
VALS Team