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freethought invites…. Jan Verwoert\u00a0 What Forces Us to Go into Abstraction<\/p>\n

A Bergen Assembly event from freethought hosted at Hordaland Kunstsenter<\/p>\n

Thursday 11 June 2015<\/p>\n

19:00 Dinner served and drinks available from the HKS bar<\/p>\n

20:00 Lecture by Jan Verwoert<\/p>\n

Why do things work the way they do? Is it because people shape places? So there wouldn’t be a\u00a0single city, institution or social structure on the planet which wasn’t a product of how people perform\u00a0whatever they think is the right thing to do and life in the polis would be defined by forces that are\u00a0infinitely specific. Or is it never about people but first and foremost about (super- and infra-) structures?\u00a0How else could you explain that a sheer accumulation of power and money can create realities which\u00a0have nothing to do with people, which are abstract beyond belief because they are manifestations of\u00a0structural plotting alone, but which shape life in the city with the physical force of a slap in the face? Do\u00a0we want to look closely at how people perform politics, in the flesh? Or do the structural realities\u00a0created by superpower and superriches force us to go into abstraction?<\/p>\n

Please join us for the third in freethought’s series of public lectures for the Bergen Assembly. A simple\u00a0dinner will be provided and drinks will be available to buy from the HKS bar.<\/p>\n

All welcome!<\/p>\n

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Jan Verwoert is a critic and writer on contemporary art and cultural theory, based in Berlin. He is a\u00a0contributing editor of Frieze magazine, his writing has appeared in different journals, anthologies and\u00a0monographs. He teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, the de Appel curatorial programme and\u00a0the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. He is the author of Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous,\u00a0MIT Press\/Afterall Books 2006, the essay collection Tell Me What You Want What You Really Really\u00a0Want, Sternberg Press\/Piet Zwart Institute 2010, together with Michael Stevenson, Animal Spirits \u2014Fables in the Parlance of Our Time, Christoph Keller Editions, JRP, Zurich 2013 and a second\u00a0collection of his essays Cookie! published by Sternberg Press\/Piet Zwart Institute 2014.<\/p>\n

freethought invites….is a series of public events organised by freethought in the lead up to the 2016\u00a0Bergen Assembly to pursue their research into ‘Infrastructure’. These events are open to all, and\u00a0include dinner, drinks and a guest lecture.\u00a0Alongside this public programme, members of freethought will lead a focused seminar programme\u00a0around key themes and terms relating to infrastructure with the intention of developing a collective\u00a0body of research and insights. These seminars are available to anyone who can commit to following\u00a0the programme in its entirety up until September 2016. If you would like to join the seminar\u00a0programme, please email freethought@bergenassembly.no<\/p>\n

You can follow the freethought Infrastructure investigation here: http:\/\/freethought-infrastructure.org<\/p>\n

Follow at @ft-collective and facebook.com\/freethought-collective<\/p>\n

Bergen Assembly: http:\/\/www.bergenassembly.no\/ and facebook.com\/Bergenassembly\/<\/p>\n

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