Art Lecture on Kentridge Slated at WCMA09:36AM / Tuesday, March 18, 2008
WILLIAMSTOWN - Okwui Enwezor, dean of academic affairs at San Francisco Art Institute, will speak on "(Un) Civil Engineering: William Kentridge's Allegorical Landscapes" on Saturday, April 12, at 2 p.m. at Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall on the Williams College campus.
The lecture is being presented in conjunction with two exhibitions on Kentridge's work currently on view at the Williams College Museum of Art: "William Kentridge Prints" and Kentridge's "History of the Main Complaint."
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Enwezor, adjunct curator at International Center of Photography in New York and artistic director of Documenta 11, will discuss the role of landscape as an archival structure of memory and narrative in the drawings, films, and tapestries within the context of post-apartheid culture.
Kentridge's work will be discussed in relation to his contemporaries, influences, and reaction to modes of work that seek to disremember the troubled relationship between cultures in South Africa.
Enwezor, senior vice president at San Francisco Art Institute, has held several visiting professorships and has curated numerous exhibits and has served on numerous juries, advisory bodies, and curatorial teams. He is director of the 2008 7th Gwangju Biennale.
He is completing two books, "The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transitions" and "Archaeology of the Present: The Postcolonial Archive, Photography and African Modernity"; and two exhibition projects, "Snap Judgments: Recent Positions in Contemporary African Photography" and "On Governmentality: Techniques and Technologies of Critique, Dissent, Resistance and Solidarity in Contemporary Art.
In 2004 he co-convened a major international conference: "Modernity and Contemporaneity: Antinomies of Art and Culture after 20th Century" at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Museum.
The museum, on Main Street, is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 to 5 and Sunday from 1 to 5. It is wheelchair accessible and open to the public;admission is free. For more information: 413-597-2429. |
