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e-flux is pleased to present two events organized with Anselm Franke,
curator of the exhibition Animism, on view at e-flux until July
28.
Outdoor film screening
Ken
Jacobs introduces his works Let There Be Whistle
Blowers (2005), The Green Wave (2011),
and Flo Rounds A Corner (1999) followed by screenings
of Antje Majewski's interview with Thomas and Helke Bayrle
(2011), and Jean Painleve's Love life of the
Octopus (1967).
Thursday, July 19, 8:30pm
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Abrons Arts Center
Outside theatre
466
Grand Street
New York, NY
(to be held at e-flux if inclement
weather)
Animism closing event: "The
Vanishing Point of the Modern"
With Anselm
Franke, Tom Keenan, Spyros Papapetros,
and Elizabeth Povinelli
Animism can be called the
"vanishing point of the modern" for its opposition to modern rationalities,
meaning the point where modernity "disappears." It is also a "vanishing
point" in the sense of its importance and notoriety for the "modern
perspective," particularly in this moment as we try to develop new
perspectives both on animism and the modern legacy.
Anselm
Franke, curator of Animism, Tom Keenan,
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Human
Rights Project at Bard College, Spyros Papapetros, Assistant
Professor, History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University,
and Elizabeth Povinelli, Professor of Anthropology and Gender
Studies at Columbia University, will each present on this subject, marking
the close of Animism on view at e-flux until July 28.
Wednesday, July 26, 6.30pm
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e-flux
311 East Broadway
3rd
Floor
New York, NY
Animism
e-flux presents the fifth iteration
of Animism, curated by Anselm Franke.
The exhibition rethinks the question of animation not by
investigating the effect of animation within aesthetics, but by tackling
the unquestioned backdrop against which such aesthetic effects are
discussed. This backdrop is the discourse of animism: a term defined by
nineteenth century anthropologists searching for mankind's alleged
primitive, original religion, which they identified as the erroneous
animation of the surrounding world. Outside the field of art and mass
media, discussions on animation turn into an ontological battleground at
the frontier of colonial modernity.
With With
Marcel Broodthaers, Walt Disney, Jimmie Durham, Harun Farocki, Tom Holert,
Luis Jacob, Ken Jacobs, Joachim Koester, Len Lye, Chris Marker, Daria
Martin, Angela Melitopoulos & Maurizio Lazzarato, Ana Mendieta, Vincent
Monnikendam, Spyros Papapetros, Alain Resnais, and Natascha Sadr
Haghighian.
Read reviews of the exhibition by the New
York Times and artinfo.
e-flux exhibition space
311 East Broadway
New
York, NY
www.e-flux.com
Tuesday–Saturday, 12–6pm
April 26–July 28,
2012
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