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Lecture by Dr. Jean-Paul Martinon
Lecturer in Museum Studies and Curatorial Theory at Goldsmiths College, London.
Curatorial / Knowledge
press to exitproject space is inviting you to the lecture by Dr. Jean-Paul Martinon
lecturer in Museum Studies and Curatorial Theory at Goldsmiths College, London.
The lecture is realized as a part of the Lectures, Presentations and Exhibitions programme of the press to exit project space.
“This lecture will attempt to unravel how an exhibition can
be interpreted as displaying forms of knowledge. I will be asking: what
does it mean to “read” a display of works of art and what forms of knowledge are imparted by this reading? Visual art is often described as something that cannot be put into words. It is a language that cannot be translated into written format. The purpose is therefore to question whether or not we can
interpret the material of exhibitions as if it was a series of signs
and signifying practices and how these compare to other forms of knowledge.
Finally I will also attempt to examine briefly the possibility of thinking that which remains purely outside the visual field, what falls outside of language and knowledge”.
Dr. Jean-Paul Martinon
Jean-Paul Martinon has a PhD in art history from Reading University. He is currently a lecturer in Museum Studies and Curatorial Theory in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, London. He was the
co-founder and curator of Rear Window (1991-1998) an
independent arts trust that staged a series of exhibitions and conferences in temporary sites across London. One such project, Care and Control (1995),
was sited in a fully functioning psychiatric hospital in
East London and involved 30 psychiatric patients and 18 contemporary artists. He was the Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Showroom Gallery for which he organised a conference on art and global politics (To Change An Opinion, 2004). He was a member of RePublicArt, a trans-national research project exploring and developing progressive practices of public art (www.republicart.net), for which he organised a conference on artists and activists’ invisible strategies (Camden Arts Centre, 2005). He has published numerous essays in exhibition catalogues and academic journals. He has just finished writing his second book, On Futurity / Malabou, Nancy & Derrida, which comprises a series of essays on the notion of futurity incontemporary French philosophy, which will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2007.
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