Date: Monday 18 August, 2003
Time: 6pm - 7.30pm
Venue: The Physics Room, L2 / 209 Tuam Street
FREE
Presented in Christchurch by The Physics Room and Art & Industry,
made possible by the Artspace / Creative NZ International Visitors Programme.
Widely published art writer and theorist, John Welchman will present
slides and discuss the renegotiations of faciality in postmodern art
practice.
Currently a Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of
California, San Diego, Welchman is touring New Zealand and will be a
keynote speaker at the Cultural Provocations conference in Auckland this
month.
He is the author of Modernism Relocated: Towards a Cultural Studies
of Visual Modernity (Allen & Unwin, 1995); Invisible Colours: A Visual
History of Titles (Yale UP, 1997) and Art After Appropriation: Essays
on Art in the 1990s (Routledge, 2001). He is co-author of The Dada and
Surrealist Word Image (MIT Press, 1987) and of Mike Kelley in the Phaidon
Contemporary Artists series (1999) and editor of Rethinking Borders (Minnesota
UP,
1996). He has been published in Artforum, Screen, Art + Text, Third Text,
New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and other journals and
art catalogues.
John Welchman is currently finalising two new books on the relation
between art, film and the representation of faces (The Celluloid Face
and Faces and Powers), which will inform his lecture in Christchurch.
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