Art Creates Change: The Kym Pruesse Speaker Series at OCADU

This February, Toronto’s OCAD University offers the Kym Pruesse speaker series titled Art Creates Change. Susan Buck-Morss and Wafaa Bilal (previously seen on Groundswell) will each speak in the first half of the month, on February 3rd and 10th respectively. Below is more information about each event.

Susan Buck-Morss:
“Inheriting Culture: History in a Communist Mode”
Thursday, February 3, 7 p.m.

Susan Buck-Morss is Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory in the Department of Government, and a member of the graduate fields of German Studies and History of Art at Cornell University. Her training is in Continental Theory, specifically, German Critical Philosophy and the Frankfurt School. She is currently researching and lecturing on politics and religion, theories of sovereignty, legitimacy and faith, and economies of political vision. Buck-Morss’s talk is the conclusion of a cycle of three lectures on this theme, presented at the University of Toronto, Ryerson University and OCAD University, and is held in conjunction with the exhibition Adel Abdessemed: The Future of Décor, on until February 13 in Onsite [at] OCADU gallery.

Wafaa Bilal
Thursday, February 10, 7 p.m.

The Chicago Tribune named Iraqi born Wafaa Bilal Artist of the Year in 2008 and called his dynamic installation, Domestic Tension, “one of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time.” Through his varied art practices of installation, photography and performance, and utilizing the interactivity of the Internet, “re-skinned” video games, or body tattoos, Wafaa Bilal provokes and challenges audiences to consider the absences that result from war and contemporary violence. His works are incisive and chilling, conceptually driven, and at the same time playful and full of mourning. Wafaa Bilal is Assistant Professor of Art at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Both events take place in the OCAD University auditorium, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto.

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