CEU To Host International Sustainability and Contemporary Art Symposium
The 2010 Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art begins Friday at CEU, a series that brings together artists, philosophers, environmental scientists and activists to explore capitalism’s remarkable ability to absorb criticism and adapt to new circumstances. According to post-Fordist theory, in the wake of the social upheaval of May 1968 capitalism was able to recuperate radical desires for freedom, creativity and personal liberation through the adoption of the principles of flexibility, horizontality and autonomy, and the shift from industrialism to immaterial labour.
This year's symposium on Art, Post-Fordism and Ecological Critique is the fifth in an annual series of events organized at Central European University by Maja and Reuben Fowkes of Translocal.org, the Department of Environmental Science and Policy, and the Center for Arts and Culture at CEU.
The program includes an afternoon of presentations on Friday March 19, starting at 5 p.m., and continues Saturday, March 20, with a series of worskops.
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10/03/2010