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West Bund | Scholars Symposium
Of Spiders and Cells: Louise Bourgeois and the Art of Reparation
Lecture Series No.2
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Theme: Of Spiders and Cells: Louise Bourgeois and the Art of Reparation
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Guest Speakers: Elisabeth Bronfen
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Time: 10:00-11:00 AM, Nov 3rd, 2018
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Address: Multi-function room, Long Museum (West Bund)
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Language: English (Simultaneous interpretation will be provided)
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Registration: Click read more at the bottom of the page for registration.
Louise Bourgeois’ interest in hysteria as a form of embodied self-expression runs through her psychoanalytically informed work, as the piece Arch of Hysteria demonstrates. Yet her aesthetic reference to this psycho-somatic disturbance, or rather articulation of dis-esase, is as concerned with the sense of loss and abandonment, on which, according to her, artistic creativity is predicated, as it is concerned with sexual desire and satisfaction.
The cells – conceived as portraits – on which this lecture will focus, perform scenes of an ambivalent entrapment in the textures of family relationships, which Bourgeois incessantly draws on in her work. They critique these entanglements in search of a process of reconciliation, which can, however, only be thought of as achievable but never fully to be realized. And it is precisely this open-ended battle with, and against, the trauma of the family that emerges as a fundamental aspect of her aesthetic appropriation of the language of hysteria. The moment of suspension, and suspense which Bourgeois’ cells encapsulate, capture recuperation as a possibility that overcomes even as it sustains personal discontent.
Guest Speakers: Elisabeth Bronfen
Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich and, since 2007, Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. She did her PhD at the University of Munich, on literary space in the work of Dorothy M. Richardson’s novel Pilgrimage, as well as her habilitation, five years later, on representations of femininity and death. A specialist in the 19th and 20th century literature she has also written articles in the area of gender studies, psychoanalysis, film, cultural theory and visual culture. Current research projects: Mad Men and the American Cultural Imaginary, Seriality and 21st century DVD-novels, the gender of political sovereignty and a monograph on Shakespeare's theater.
On the same day, the curator of the exhibition, Philip Larratt-Smith will collect 30 spectators and conduct a guided tour during 11:10-12:00. After the lecture, 10 participants will be given an exhibition ticket to participate in the guided tour.
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