A Re-Enactment of the 1920s Debates presented by the Retro-Formalism Group in cooperation with Marxism in Culture (University of London) and the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture (University of Westminster) June 4.-5th 2015 Organised by David Cunningham, Anke Hennig, Anthony Iles more

The So-Called Formalist Method (1923) more

Steve Sabella, born in Jerusalem in 1975, is a Berlin based artist who uses photography and photographic installation as his principle modes of expression. He is the holder of the Ellen Auerbach Award (2008) granted by the Akademie der Künste (Academy of the Arts) in Berlin and was one of the commissioned artists for the inauguration of MATHAF Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha where he presented a critical installation entitled Settlement - Six Israelis & One Palestinian. His artworks were shown in Les Rencontres d’Arles 2013. more

Shklovsky begins his seminal text, "Art as Device", with critiques of diverse formulations of the ‘laws’ of economy governing creative effort and perception in poetic and prose language. more

John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton) Shklovsky, Error and the End of Saint Petersburg more

На нашем втором семинаре мы сосредоточимся на рискованной попытке отстранить Формализм от Авангарда, разорвать их привычную тавтологию, если не тождество. Для этого мы решили сконцентрироваться на судьбе формализма в 1930-е годы, когда негативная идентификация формализма с авангардом стала почти тотальной. more weiterlesen дальше