Wednesdays at AVU - Karel Císař: Distraction and Shock

VVP AVU is pleased to invite you on April 15, 2015, at 6:00 PM to a lecture from the series Wednesdays at AVU, which this semester focuses on the history of exhibition practices:

KAREL CÍSAŘ
DISPERSIONS AND SHOCKS
DISCOURSE SPACES OF INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS OF THE 20s AND 30s OF THE 20th CENTURY

With the increasing urbanization and the development of mass media, a radical transformation in perception and experience occurred at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The response to this change was not only modern cinema but also discursive and participatory exhibitions such as the textile exhibition by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich (1927) and the entrance hall at László Moholy-Nagy's construction industry exhibition (1931). These installations established the "grammar of modern exhibition practices," the rules of which contemporary art is still discovering.

Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
U Akademie 4, auditorium – 3rd floor

Organized by the Research and Development Center of AVU in cooperation with the Department of Theory and History of Art at AVU

Technical support by Digilab AVU
Online stream on ČT24 as part of the I-Broadcasting of Czech Television

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