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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: ARTIST TALK: GREGORY SHOLETTE\nEvent Url: http://ww
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 t Date Begin: 2011-02-24\nEvent Date End: 2011-02-24\n\nArtist Talk: Grego
 ry Sholette\n\n'Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Cul
 ture'\n\nGregory Sholette's research into politically-engaged artists' col
 lectives raises the following proposition: cultural economies are secretly
  dependent upon a sphere of hidden social production involving co-operativ
 e networks\, systems of gift exchange\, unwaged labor\, and collective for
 ms of practice that act as a type of missing mass or dark matter\, which t
 he art world typically refuses to acknowledge. Thanks in part to the sprea
 d of digital networks\, however\, this dark matter is getting brighter. By
  looking at more than 30 years of contemporary artists' collectives\, Shol
 ette's talk will map this missing mass politically\, as part of a broader 
 history from below.\n\nSholette is a New York-based artist\, writer\, and 
 founding member of Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D: 1980&n
 dash\;1988)\, and REPOhistory (1989-2000). His recent publications include
  the book Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination afte
 r 1945\, with Blake Stimson (University of Minnesota\, 2007)\; The Interve
 ntionists: A Users Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life\, w
 ith Nato Thompson (MassMoCA/MIT Press\, 2004\, 2006\, 2008)\; and a specia
 l issue of Third Text co-edited with theorist Gene Ray on the theme &ldquo
 \;Whither Tactical Media.&rdquo\; Sholette is currently working on an inst
 allation for Enjoy Gallery in Wellington New Zealand\, and completing a bo
 ok for Pluto Press (UK) entitled Dark Matter: Art and Politics in an Age o
 f Enterprise Culture. He is an assistant professor of sculpture at Queens 
 College: City University of New York (CUNY)\, and teaches classes in theor
 y and social practice at the CCC post-graduate research program at Geneva 
 University of Art and Design.\n\nStart time: 6 pm
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