Theoretical is a new critical discourse series at ISSUE Project Room curated in collaboration with Brandon W. Joseph (Columbia University), David Grubbs (Brooklyn College), and Seth Kim-Cohen (Yale University). Through monthly talks, panels, and classes, this series seeks to actively engage artists, writers, and audiences in examining and discussing key issues in contemporary aesthetic theory, media, urban space and politics.

On January 7, we invite you to join ISSUE Project Room for Theoretical: Liam Gillick in conversation with Seth Kim-Cohen presented by the Institute for Doctoral Studies

Thursday, January 7, 2010, 6 PM

Admission is free

Part of IDSVA’s Symposium: Art, Ethnicity, and Globalization

Artist Liam Gillick is one of the most important artists of the 21st century. He was chosen to represent Germany at the 2009 Venice Biennale. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago is currently presenting his mid-career retrospective, “Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario.” Gillick’s writings have been published in Proxemics: Selected Writings, 1988 – 2006 (JRP Ringier/Les Presses Du Réel, 2006) and sixteen critics and theorists have weighed in on Gillick’s work in Meaning Liam Gillick (MIT, 2009).