If there was a way I could teleport myself to Vancouver by this Tuesday (or afford to fly instead of being in massive student debt), I would be all over this. I love love love Andrea Fraser and am desperate to see her speak about her work.
Andrea Fraser, Museum Highlights, A Gallery Talk (still), 1989Date: January 29, 2008
Time: 5:15 PM
Location: Laserre Room 104, 6333 Memorial Road.
Part of the Distinguished Visiting Artist Program
Andrea Fraser’s work, writes Pierre Bourdieu in his foreword to Museum Highlights, is able to “trigger a social mechanism, a sort of machine infernale whose operation causes the hidden truth of social reality to reveal itself.” It often does this by incorporating and inhabiting the social role it sets out to critique — as in a performance piece in which she leads a tour as a museum docent and describes the men’s room in the same elevated language that she uses to describe seventeenth-century Dutch paintings. Influenced by the interdisciplinarity of postmodernism, Fraser’s interventionist art draws on four primary artistic and intellectual frameworks — institutional critique, with its site-specific examination of cultural context; performance; feminism, with its investigation of identity formation; and Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology.
Everyone is welcome!
Presented by the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory
University of British Columbia
Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory
403 – 6333 Memorial Road
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Anyone who saw “Auto Emotion” probably saw “Official Welcome,” which is one of her better performances, but the museum tour is actually my all-time favourite.
I have a sneaking suspicion Bill Wood had something to do with this. He brings up Fraser’s work as often as he possibly can.
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