A lecture by Trevor
Stark as part of the Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series
UBC Departmen
t of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory
5:30 p.m.\, Wednesday\, Dece
mber 1\, 2021
Room 104\, Frederic Lasserre Building
6333 Memorial
Road\, University of British Columbia
ahva.ubc.ca
This in-perso n event is free and open to the public. It will not be streamed.
COVI D-19 prevention protocols will be in place\, including verification of full vaccination status in the form of a vaccine passport and face coverings mu st be worn for the duration of the lecture. Please arrive by 5:15 p.m. to a llow for verification and seating. The lecture will begin promptly at 5:30 p.m.
“In an unstable society... no stable and definitive art can be c reated\,” the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé proclaimed in the late nineteen th century. Fallen out of sync with its time\, the creation of art\, Mallar mé suggested\, was like casting dice into an uncertain future\, a gamble on a potential public to come. This necessary but futile struggle against cha nce was the subject of his notorious spatial poem A throw of the Dice n ever will abolish Chance (1897). This talk will grapple with Mallarmé' s thinking on chance\, history\, and aesthetic reception. It will argue tha t Marcel Duchamp\, in the decades following Mallarmé's death\, read the poe t's work as he confronted his own sense that communication in the present w as destined to failure and that posterity was a game of chance.
Trevo r Stark is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Calgary. He received his PhD in the Histor y of Art and Architecture at Harvard University in 2016\, and his research has been supported by SSHRC and fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of A rt\, Columbia University\, and the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. St ark’s writing has appeared in venues including Art History\, O CTOBER\, and Texte zur Kunst. His first book Total Expans ion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé was pub lished in 2020 by the MIT Press as part of the OCTOBER Books series.
Image: Marc el Duchamp\, Monte Carlo Bond\, 1924-25.
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