Course 12 at Summer School as School 2022
August 19, 2022, 20:00
Venue: Boxing Club
Venue: Boxing Club
End Performance of Course 12: The Archaeology of Former Art and Coming Apocalypse: A guided tour through the Museum of American Art, Prishtina, under the direction of Jelena Vesić, part of the Public Program of Summer School as School 2022.
The archaeological site of former art and coming apocalypse: A guided tour through the Museum of American Art, Prishtina
This lecture performance is designed as a collective piece, an outcome of the same-named course of the SummerSchoolasSchool, exploring meta-museology and disaster capitalism. The course teacher is Jelena Vesic; The participants are: Isidora Todoric, Kreshnik Arifi, Anastasia Shestak, Abdelrahman Elbashir, Igor Maksimilijan Zenzerovic and associate Flamur Bilalli.
The Museum of American Art in Prishtina is an educational institution dedicated to assembling, preserving and exhibiting memories on the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) and its International Program of Circulating Exhibitions of American art, which helped establishing the first post-WW2 common cultural identity based on modernism (Abstract Art), individualism and internationalism. The abstract Art in Europe and America in the 1950s was established by the Alfred Barr’s narrative on – isms as the only legitimate History of Modern Art. Modern art in these years had to be defended from the criticism from the right (Alfred Barr: “Is Modern Art Communistic”), but also it became apparent that American modern art could be used in the cultural Cold War, as an expression of creativity and freedom of the West.
We are living in the times when post-apocalypse and pre-apocalypse collide in the supernow. Do you see the Harbingers or is this just a commodification of the apocalypse? We no longer inhabit heaven and earth, but the Cloud and Google Earth. If Amazon is the Arcades, and Facebook the Café, what is the Great Exhibition of today?
Exhibitions are like dinosaurs—they are the skeletons of a bygone era. All the junk of this built and torn down plaster walls of global mega exhibitions and art fairs. The gnawed ribs of the former white cube. The museum’s mission was to preserve and protect art for the future generations. Please be responsible and thoughtful, and do not touch the moss.
The lecture performance took place at the Museum of American Art in Prishtina, located at Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art, Henrik Bariç 23 Street, (the courtyard of the Ethnology Museum).
The narrative of the performance is built on the Recent Writings by Walter Benjamin, discussions with the doormen of Salon de Fleures, New York and Post-exhibitionary Ruminations by Maria Lactans.
The archaeological site of former art and coming apocalypse: A guided tour through the Museum of American Art, Prishtina
This lecture performance is designed as a collective piece, an outcome of the same-named course of the SummerSchoolasSchool, exploring meta-museology and disaster capitalism. The course teacher is Jelena Vesic; The participants are: Isidora Todoric, Kreshnik Arifi, Anastasia Shestak, Abdelrahman Elbashir, Igor Maksimilijan Zenzerovic and associate Flamur Bilalli.
The Museum of American Art in Prishtina is an educational institution dedicated to assembling, preserving and exhibiting memories on the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) and its International Program of Circulating Exhibitions of American art, which helped establishing the first post-WW2 common cultural identity based on modernism (Abstract Art), individualism and internationalism. The abstract Art in Europe and America in the 1950s was established by the Alfred Barr’s narrative on – isms as the only legitimate History of Modern Art. Modern art in these years had to be defended from the criticism from the right (Alfred Barr: “Is Modern Art Communistic”), but also it became apparent that American modern art could be used in the cultural Cold War, as an expression of creativity and freedom of the West.
We are living in the times when post-apocalypse and pre-apocalypse collide in the supernow. Do you see the Harbingers or is this just a commodification of the apocalypse? We no longer inhabit heaven and earth, but the Cloud and Google Earth. If Amazon is the Arcades, and Facebook the Café, what is the Great Exhibition of today?
Exhibitions are like dinosaurs—they are the skeletons of a bygone era. All the junk of this built and torn down plaster walls of global mega exhibitions and art fairs. The gnawed ribs of the former white cube. The museum’s mission was to preserve and protect art for the future generations. Please be responsible and thoughtful, and do not touch the moss.
The lecture performance took place at the Museum of American Art in Prishtina, located at Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art, Henrik Bariç 23 Street, (the courtyard of the Ethnology Museum).
The narrative of the performance is built on the Recent Writings by Walter Benjamin, discussions with the doormen of Salon de Fleures, New York and Post-exhibitionary Ruminations by Maria Lactans.