Marcel Duchamp Undergraound
9.23 (Mon.) 14:00-16:00
Auditorium
English with Chinese translation

Gordon Matta-Clark at Day's End
9.25 (Wed.) 14:00-16:00
Auditorium
English with Chinese translation

Molly Nesbit (Professor of Art History)

Molly Nesbit is Professor of Art History on the Mary Conover Mellon Chair at Vassar College and a contributing editor of Artforum. Since 2002, together with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija, she has curated Utopia Station, a collective and ongoing book, exhibition, seminar, website and street project (in Poughkeepsie, Frankfurt, Venice, Munich, Porto Alegre, and, next, Buenos Aires).

She has received many awards for her work, notably from the Guggenheim Foundation, the J. Paul Getty Trust, and the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. In 2008 she gave the J. Kirk T. Varnedoe Memorial lectures at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her books include Atget: Seven Albums (Yale University Press, 1992) and Their Common Sense (Black Dog, 2000). The Pragmatism in the History of Art (Periscope, 2013) is the first volume of “Pre-Occupations,” a series collecting her essays; the second, Midnight: The Tempest Essays, was published in 2017 by Inventory Press.

About The Pragmatism in the History of Art

Pragmatism is above all a way of working, it starts from the present. The Pragmatism in the History of Art  traces the questions that modern art history has used to make sense of the changes overtaking both art and life. A genealogy emerges naturally, elliptically. Several generations cross back and forth over the Atlantic. The questions combine with case studies as a story unfolds: the work of Meyer Schapiro, Henri Focillon, Alexander Dorner, George Kubler, Robert Herbert, T. J. Clark and Linda Nochlin is scrutinized; the philosophy of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze and the films of Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard show distinctly pragmatic effects; artists discussed include Vincent Van Gogh, Isamu Noguchi, Lawrence Weiner and Gordon Matta-Clark. The relevance of this material for the art and art-writing of our own time becomes increasingly clear.

To learn more: please click on the Art Forum link below.

http://www.artforum.com.cn/inprint/201409/7076

Further details on the content of the seminar and a reading list will be announced soon, please stay tuned.

To receive the reading materials, please send an email to info@ucca.org.cn with a subject line of "Molly Nesbit Reading Materials"

Molly Nesbit, The Pragmatism in the History of Art (New York: Periscope, 2013).

Meyer Schapiro, "On a Painting of Van Gogh," first published in View (October 1946), pp. 8-14.

Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault , "Entretien: Les Intellectuels  et  le pouvoir," L'Arc, no. 49 (1972), pp. 3-10. 
Translated into English as “Intellectuals and Power” by Donald Bouchard and Sherry Simon in the collection of Foucault’s essays, Language, Counter-memory, Practice, edited by Donald Bouchard (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977), pp. 205-217.

"Gordon Matta-Clark's Building Dissections:  interview with  Donald Wall," Arts Magazine (May 1976), pp. 474-479, reprinted in Gordon Matta-Clark: Works and Collected Writings, edited by Gloria Moure (Madrid: Reina Sofia, 2006), pp. 53-69.