about memory, art, public space
The context-giving programme for the interventions in Vogelsang will start january 20th / 07.00 pm / in the aula or room2 of KHM: “Konversion(en)/Conversion(s)” a panel with Astrid Wege (European Kunsthalle Cologne) and Barbara Hess.
A lecture by Celeste Olalquiaga on ruins and melancholia will take place january 27th / 07.00 pm / in the aula or room2 of KHM: „Modernity in Ruins” – About the fall of modernity’s utopian dream and the fate of its ruins by Celeste Olalquiaga.
Celeste Olalquiaga is a cultural historian interested in the contradictions of modernity and the residual aspects of modern culture. She has proposed kitsch as the decayed cristallization of an imaginary experience. Currently at work on a re-examination of the myth of Medusa, she is also studying the evolving boundaries between nature and technology. An independent scholar, Celeste publishes, lectures and does artistic collaborations worldwide.
Her books include Megalopolis:Contemporary Cultural Sensibilities . (1992) and The Artificial Kingdom:.A Treasury of the Kitsch Sensibility.(1998).
background reference http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordensburg_Vogelsang
contact reference http://www.euregionale2008.eu
visiting program http://www.vogelsang-ip.de