Aug 20 | Lunchtime Talk: Jalal Toufic

LUNCHTIME TALK at Asia Art Archive
with
JALAL TOUFIC
Thursday, August 22 – 12pm

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Join us and Jalal Toufic – artist, writer and thinker – for a presentation on his text ‘The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster’ this Thursday, August 22 at noon for 45 minutes at Asia Art Archive’s A Space. This meeting is part of an ongoing series of conversations held at AAA over a light lunch with artists visiting Hong Kong.

On the talk: “The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster” With regard to the surpassing disaster, art acts like the mirror in vampire films: it reveals the withdrawal of what we believe is still there. In normal times a nebulous entity despite the somewhat artificial process of canon formation, tradition becomes delineated and specified by the surpassing disaster. Tradition is what conjointly materially survived the surpassing disaster, was immaterially withdrawn by it, and had the fortune of being subsequently resurrected by artists, writers, thinkers, and/or messianists.

On the artist: Jalal Toufic is a thinker and a mortal to death. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. Many of his books, most of which were published by Forthcoming Books, are available for download as PDF files at his website: http://www.jalaltoufic.com. He was most recently a participant in the Sharjah Biennial 11, the 9th Shanghai Biennale, Documenta 13, Art in the Auditorium III (Whitechapel Gallery …) and Six Lines of Flight (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art). He was a guest in 2011 of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD, and will be the Resident Professor (with Anton Vidokle) at HWP Study Program at Ashkal Alwan for 2013-14 (http://ashkalalwan.org/programs_tax/hwp-study-program/).

Jalal Toufic is presently artist-in-residence at Spring Workshop.

Date August 22, 2013 (Thursday)
Time 12pm
Place Asia Art Archive, 10/F 233 Hollywood Road Sheung Wan
Event Talk and light lunch
Cost Free admission

 

 

 

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