SUMMER 2018 - FILE AS SURVIVAL? - SOLD OUT

THE ARTWORK’S POST-HISTORY MEETS ITS PRE-HISTORY: ARCHIVE AS AFTERLIFE

‘WHAT WAS IN THEM WAS ONE WITH THE WORLD SPIRIT’: FRAGMENTS OF THE WHOLE - ART, EXPERIENCE AND ‘HISTORY’ IN THE COLLECTIVE SINGULAR (‘OUR’ HISTORY)

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO GRASP THE HISTORICAL CONTENT OF A WORK OF ART IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT BECOMES MORE TRANSPARENT TO US AS A WORK OF ART?

RETROACTIVE TEMPORAL ONTOLOGY? THE HISTORICAL ONTOLOGY OF THE WORK OF ART

‘UNPACKING MY LIBRARY’: THE POWER OF ASSEMBLY (OF HISTORICAL MATERIALS) BEHIND BENJAMIN AS ‘BOOK COLLECTOR’

BENJAMIN ON FUCHS: COLLECTOR AND HISTORIAN; OR, HOW WORKS OF ART SURVIVE THEIR ‘AUTHOR’, LEAVING ORIGINAL INTENTION BEHIND

‘NACHLEBEN’ - WALTER BENJAMIN’S CONCEPT OF ‘SURVIVAL’: TO COLLECT, TO FILE, TO ORGANISE, TO SHOW, TO HISTORICALLY ONTOLOGIZE?

EXPLODING THE EPOCH OUT OF ITS REIFIED ‘HISTORICAL CONTINUITY? LIFTING THE LIFE OUT OF THE EPOCH AND THE WORK OUT OF THE LIFE WORK; ’‘AUFHEBUNG’ - THE RESULTING PRESERVATION AND SUSPENSION ‘OF THE LIFE WORK IN THE WORK, THE EPOCH IN THE LIFE WORK AND THE COURSE OF HISTORY IN THE EPOCH’

TO MAKE HISTORICAL CONTENT INTO A PHILOSOPHICAL TRUTH? ON THE FUNCTION OF ARTISTIC FORM

CURATION AND THE RENEWAL OF EXISTENCE - MAKING HISTORICAL OBJECTS PRESENT: OR; HOW CRITICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL RECEPTION ACTS RETROACTIVELY UPON THE VERY BEING OF THE ARTWORK

ART TRANSFORMED CONSTANTLY BY THE SYSTEM OF RELATIONS THEY ENTER INTO AS PART OF THEIR RECEPTION, WHICH RETROACTIVELY CHANGES OUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THEY ARE, EVEN (OR; THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF AFTER-HISTORY IN MAKING A WORK’S FORE-HISTORY RECOGNIZABLE AS INVOLVED IN A CONTINUOUS PROCESS OF CHANGE)

NEWS: ART, BY FIGURING WHAT IS NOT YET POSSIBLE - REAL FREEDOM - OFFERS IT AS A REAL POSSIBILITY (THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE POSSIBLE, OR THE POSSIBILITY OF THE IMPOSSIBLE? (A QUESTION OF DIALECTICS? OR A DIALECTICAL QUESTION?))

NEWS: ARTIST MISTAKENLY SELLS THEIR CONCEPTUAL BODY OF ART TO CONTEMPORARY GALLERY WHICH TURNS OUT TO BE MERELY IMAGINARY - LOSES LIFETIME OF WORK

NEWS: LUCY LIPPARD CENTRE FOR THE DEMATERIALIZATION OF WORKS OF ART (LLCDWA) LIQUIDATES ALL CONCEPTUAL ASSETS TO PAY LEGAL EXPENSES AFTER LOSING COURT ACTION OVER THEORETICAL DEFAMATION OF CONCEPTUAL ART BY ART & LANGUAGE?

SHAPE OF LIGHT - TATE MODERN

JOAN JONAS - TATE MODERN

SOUL OF A NATION - TATE MODERN