A lecture by Ina Blom
Presented with
the support of the Audain Endowment for Curatorial Studies
12:00 p.m.
PST\, Friday\, April 9\, 2021
This event is free and open to the publ
ic.
Please register in advance: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN _zm7e1oENQRiSWEnXesDKvA
Infrastructural Sensibili
ties: Straight Lines and The Question of Following
In this le
cture\, Blom will present La Monte Young’s groundbreaking Composition 1
960 #10 (Draw A Straight Line and Follow It)\, and the various permut
ations it engendered\, across media and contexts\, as a turning point in th
e longer history of straight lines in modern art and their relation to wide
r infrastructural conditions and changes. Her argument is that Young’s work
introduces a new and distinct form of infrastructural sensibility that may
ultimately provide some points toward an archeology of a contemporaneity o
riented around sensorial synchronization or alignment.
Ina Bl om is a professor at the Department of Philosophy\, Classics\, His tory of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo and Wigeland Visiting Profe ssor in the Department of Art History\, University of Chicago. Recent books include The Autobiography of Video. The Life and Times of a Memory Tec hnology (New York: Sternberg Press\, 2016)\, On the Style Site. Ar t\, Sociality and Media Culture (New York: Sternberg Press\, 2007/2009 ) as well as the edited volumes Memory in Motion. Archives\, Technology and the Social (Amsterdam University Press\, 2016) and Raoul Haus mann et les avant-gardes (Paris: Les presses du réel\, 2014).
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