[Sarai Newsletter] 'The Where of Now' - Positionality in the Moment of Globalisation: A Talk by Irit Rogoff

[dak at sarai.net]

'The Where of Now' -  Positionality in the Moment of Globalisation.
A Talk by Irit Rogoff
3:30 P.M, Wednesday, 14 February 2007
Seminar Room, Sarai- CSDS

This talk explores the idea of alternative forms of situatedness in
contemporary culture, especially contemporary art, at a time when it has
also become increasingly difficult to define location.

[Irit Rogoff is Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College,London
University. She works at the intersections of the critical, the political
and contemporary artistic practices. Her most recent book is "Terra
Infirma - Geography's Visual Culture"(Routledge 2001). She directed
"Translating the Image - Cross Cultural Contemporary Arts" (AHRC Research
Project 2001-2006)from which 2 volumes will be published by Koenig Verlag
in 2007.recent curatorial projects include "De-Regulation with thework of
Kutlug Ataman" (Antwerp, Herzylia,Berlin) and "Academy - Learning from the
Museum" (Vanabbe Museum,Eindhoven.)]