Stone Summer Theory Institute 2010
Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic
July 18 - 24, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Organized by James Elkins with Diarmuid Costello
Theme:
One of the most interesting features of early twenty-first century theorizing on the visual arts is the continuing hold of an old dichotomy, first defined by Hal Foster in 1980. Despite many challenges and thirty years of new art, the pairing of the aesthetic and the anti-aesthetic continues to offer no viable alternative except for adventitious and local experiments. The impasse is made more difficult by the proliferation of identity politics, which obscure other theories of meaning (for instance Slavoj Žižek and Gilles Deleuze), and it is made less negotiable by the hegemony of anti-aesthetics in academic discourse on art. This event, and the book we will produce, will be the first to discuss possible reformulations of the problem.
Faculty 2010:
James Elkins, Diarmuid Costello, Hal Foster, Eve Meltzer, Jay Bernstein
Schedule:
July 18
1:00 PM - James Elkins: Lecture introducing "Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic"
July 19
9:00 AM-noon - Opening round table
2:00 AM - Jay Bernstein: "Concepts of the Discourse of the Aesthetic"
7:30 PM - Hal Foster: “In the Toils of the (Anti)Aesthetic with Gerhard Richter”
July 20
9:00 AM - Hal Foster: "The Concept of the Anti-Aesthetic"
2:00 PM - Hal Foster: "The inheritance of the Anti-Aesthetic in Later Art and Theory"
7:30 PM - Eve Meltzer: "By Turns: Antihumanism, the Anti-Aesthetic, and the Expanded Field"
July 21
9:00 AM - Diarmuid Costello and James Elkins: "Eclipse of the Aesthetic in Cultural Theory 1980-2010"
2:00 PM - Jay Bernstein: "Nachleben der Ästhetik" ("new aestheticism" or "return to beauty” include Deleuze and Rancière)
7:30 PM - Diarmuid Costello: "Photography as Model"
July 22
9:00 AM - Eve Meltzer: "Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic, I: On Affect"
July 23
9:00 AM - Eve Meltzer: "Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic, II: Topic TBA"
2:00 PM - Diarmuid Costello: "Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic, III: On Photography"
July 24, 10:30-4:30 PM - Closing round table
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Official page of Stone Summer Theory Institute 2010
"Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic" page on Facebook.com
Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic
July 18 - 24, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Organized by James Elkins with Diarmuid Costello
Theme:
One of the most interesting features of early twenty-first century theorizing on the visual arts is the continuing hold of an old dichotomy, first defined by Hal Foster in 1980. Despite many challenges and thirty years of new art, the pairing of the aesthetic and the anti-aesthetic continues to offer no viable alternative except for adventitious and local experiments. The impasse is made more difficult by the proliferation of identity politics, which obscure other theories of meaning (for instance Slavoj Žižek and Gilles Deleuze), and it is made less negotiable by the hegemony of anti-aesthetics in academic discourse on art. This event, and the book we will produce, will be the first to discuss possible reformulations of the problem.
Faculty 2010:
James Elkins, Diarmuid Costello, Hal Foster, Eve Meltzer, Jay Bernstein
Schedule:
July 18
1:00 PM - James Elkins: Lecture introducing "Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic"
July 19
9:00 AM-noon - Opening round table
2:00 AM - Jay Bernstein: "Concepts of the Discourse of the Aesthetic"
7:30 PM - Hal Foster: “In the Toils of the (Anti)Aesthetic with Gerhard Richter”
July 20
9:00 AM - Hal Foster: "The Concept of the Anti-Aesthetic"
2:00 PM - Hal Foster: "The inheritance of the Anti-Aesthetic in Later Art and Theory"
7:30 PM - Eve Meltzer: "By Turns: Antihumanism, the Anti-Aesthetic, and the Expanded Field"
July 21
9:00 AM - Diarmuid Costello and James Elkins: "Eclipse of the Aesthetic in Cultural Theory 1980-2010"
2:00 PM - Jay Bernstein: "Nachleben der Ästhetik" ("new aestheticism" or "return to beauty” include Deleuze and Rancière)
7:30 PM - Diarmuid Costello: "Photography as Model"
July 22
9:00 AM - Eve Meltzer: "Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic, I: On Affect"
July 23
9:00 AM - Eve Meltzer: "Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic, II: Topic TBA"
2:00 PM - Diarmuid Costello: "Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic, III: On Photography"
July 24, 10:30-4:30 PM - Closing round table
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Official page of Stone Summer Theory Institute 2010
"Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic" page on Facebook.com
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