Brian Holmes. Eventwork The 4-fold Matrix of Contemporary Social Movements. 2011
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http://www.egs.edu Brian Holmes talking about contemporary social movements in art theory as revolution and the fourfold matrix of effective interventionism in grassroots activism which he calls Eventwork. In this lecture he discusses the history of vanguard expression, art as a living gesture, the transformation of everyday life, May 1968, economic and structural consequences of intimate desire, the self overcoming of art, revolution through the ages, living as form, affective transfigurations, critical research, participatory art, network communications, collaborative self-organisation, Argentina in the late 1960s, the Di Tella Institute, the exhibition strategy of Tucuman Arde in Rosario and Buenos Aires, AIDS activism, the anti-globalization movement, tactical media, the recent financial crisis. Public open lecture for the students and staff of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2011 Brian Holmes. Brian Holmes, Ph.D., is a Paris-based art critic, activist and translator interested primarily in the intersections of artistic and political practice. He was the English editor of publications for Documenta X, Kassel, Germany, and a member of the graphic arts group 'Ne pas plier' from 1999 to 2001; he has recently worked with the French conceptual art group 'Bureau d'Études'. Brian Holmes is a frequent contributor to the international listserve Nettime, a member of the editorial committee of the journal Multitudes (Paris), Springerin (Vienna) and Brumaria (Barcelona). He is also a regular contributor to the magazine Parachute (Montreal), and a founder, with 'Bureau d'Études, of the journal Autonomie Artistique (Paris). He is the author of a collection of essays, Hieroglyphs of the Future: Art and Politics in a Networked Era (Zagreb: Arkzin, 2003).
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