“The Seasons in Retrospect” comes out of his engagement with the series of “Seasons” paintings by the German artist Jutta Koether. In this lecture, he redirects his analysis of these particular paintings to, instead, consider the fate of seasonal rhythms of distribution generally, using television (in particular, the Netflix series “House of Cards”), fashion, and contemporary art as case studies for understanding the ways in which technical and economic models are interwoven. At the center of this project is an attempt to understand how internet distribution, which is fundamentally post-seasonal, works in tandem with economic models based on the management of risk.
Michael Sanchez is a doctoral candidate in art history at Columbia University in New York. He is currently writing his dissertation on the early development of the infrastructure for contemporary art around 1970. His essays on contemporary art and media have appeared in Artforum and Texte zur Kunst, as well as in exhibition catalogues, most recently, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and books (“Art and Subjecthood. The Return of the Human Figure in Semiocapitalism“, Sternberg Press, 2011).
This is the second event from the lecture series dedicated to the issues of contemporary art theory.
Event is held in English.
Organizer: Inesa Pavlovskaite (The Gardens).
Partner: National Gallery of Art