World of Art, School for curators and critics of contemporary art, Year 14
Series of public lectures on curatorial and institutional practice
Petra Kapš:
Lethe or Mnemosyne for the
fu-(ture), OR as omnipresent trinity: poiesis, techné, parrhesia
Lecture

Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 8 p. m.
SCCA Project room, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana

Petra Kapš is an independent author, working as writer, researcher, performer, curator and producer. Her studies of Slovenian language, theology, philosophy, aesthetics and specific art phenomena are interlinked with researches of different aspects of media, word, image and sound. Currently she is preparing her PHD on significant shifts between oracular, oral and rhetorical practices in ancient Greece with possible effects of the later in artistic practices in western context.

Petra Kapš: "The roots of OR could be traced in words for oracular, oratory, rhetoric practices, OR could also be followed into a nucleus of order, it could be suspected in correspondence to form, and as a core of organum. OR as a structure of discourse, OR as sonic murmuring coming out of the mouth. OR as a signifier, poetic modulator and inspiring force, mirroring the rest of the future. OR as a symptom while our civilization of meaning and (mis)understanding should drink from the spring of Mnemosyne to refresh herself with complex endeavours of poetical. OR is the axis of our discursive civilization.

I will lecture about my long-term interests on flourishing and/or reduction of meaning(s), order – form, and will stress one of my maxims: invention of aesthetic (form) is in a correlation with understanding and communication. In this evolutive path of her efforts, she will interrelate writing, curating, organizing, performing and investigating and will stress the importance of both: reductionistic rational logic-analytical based actions and associative poetic universe of rhizomatic eventualities."

More on World of Art

The lecture is a part of the joint project ATOM²(A je TO! uMetnost, phAntom TO Mindset), in which we collaborate with the Postgraduate Curatorial studies of Institute Cultural Studies in the Arts (Zürich Art University).

Supported by a grant from Switzerland through the Swiss Contribution to the enlarged European Union.

[Published February 13, 2012]