How Asger Jorn Stole the Value-Form of Ava
nt-garde Art
A lecture by Eric Alliez
Presented as part of the Jo
an Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series
This event is free and open to the public. Please join us for a reception following the talk.
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"Détournement is a game born out of the capacity for devalorization. Only he who is able to devalorize can create new values\," we read in ‘Détourned Painting\,’ in th e context of an exhibition as aggressively ‘kitsch’ as can be: Twenty Paint ings Modified by Asger Jorn (1959). But what is the relation between the cr itique of political economy delivered by Jorn in the form of ‘Value and Eco nomy\,’ published contemporaneously\, and these paintings placed entirely u nder the sign of a vicious kick to the Greenbergian ass? This question will project us at the heart of the Jorn-Debord dispositif\, before and beyond the scission between “artists” and “revolutionaries” to problematize the si tuationist moment — and Situationism itself — in relation to the present. T his talk will settle accounts with the ‘aesthetic delicatessen’ of the artw ork whereby Jorn appropriates not so much the ‘détournement of painting’ as ‘painting détourned’ by the action of its devalorization in a situationism that is not at all circumstantial.
Eric Alliez (b. 1957)\, philosoph er\, is a Professor at University of Paris 8 and at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy\, Kingston University (London). He has been visiting professor in many universities worldwide. He is author of Capi tal Times\, The Signature of the World: Or\, What is Deleuze and G uattari's Philosophy?\, The Brain-Eye: New Histories of Modern Pai nting\, and Wars and Capital\, with Maurizio Lazzarato (Semio text(e))\, and coeditor of The Guattari Effect\, and Spheres o f Action: Art and Politics (MIT Press).
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