Greg Evans: Karel Teige - lecture at Gallery VI PER
Between the Art Market and Poetry Made by All
Gallery VI PER invites you to a lecture and subsequent discussion on the occasion of the recent publication of the English translation of Karel Teige's book The Art Market.
Can the dichotomy presented by Karel Teige in his essay The Art Market between his defense of a radical, liberating aesthetics of the avant-garde in general – and surrealism in particular – and his conviction that a society will emerge where everyone will create art be reconciled? Especially considering that the societies that can claim a tradition in which "everyone makes art" were underpinned by social and cultural structures tied to traditions that the avant-garde sought to dismantle? As a step towards answering this question, I will address the competing definitions of "participatory art" (from traditional folk art to surrealists and Fluxus) and the differing aesthetic, social, and experiential realities they reflect, along with the varied interpretations of the very nature of art itself.
Greg Evans is a writer and translator whose short stories and essays have appeared in journals such as Leaves, Shape, A2, Analogon, Host, and Contradictions. He has also written for the journal Green Social Thought and served on its editorial board. His translation of Teige's book The Art Market was recently published by Contradictions and RAB-RAB Press.
Can the dichotomy presented by Karel Teige in his essay The Art Market between his defense of a radical, liberating aesthetics of the avant-garde in general – and surrealism in particular – and his conviction that a society will emerge where everyone will create art be reconciled? Especially considering that the societies that can claim a tradition in which "everyone makes art" were underpinned by social and cultural structures tied to traditions that the avant-garde sought to dismantle? As a step towards answering this question, I will address the competing definitions of "participatory art" (from traditional folk art to surrealists and Fluxus) and the differing aesthetic, social, and experiential realities they reflect, along with the varied interpretations of the very nature of art itself.
Greg Evans is a writer and translator whose short stories and essays have appeared in journals such as Leaves, Shape, A2, Analogon, Host, and Contradictions. He has also written for the journal Green Social Thought and served on its editorial board. His translation of Teige's book The Art Market was recently published by Contradictions and RAB-RAB Press.
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