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Irit Rogoff
Goldsmiths, University of London, Visual Cultures, Faculty Member
- Irit Rogoff is a writer, curator, and organizer working at the intersection of contemporary art, critical theory, and... moreIrit Rogoff is a writer, curator, and organizer working at the intersection of contemporary art, critical theory, and emergent political manifestations. She is Professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, London University where she heads the PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge program and the MA in Global Arts program. Rogoff has written extensively on geography, globalization, and contemporary participatory practices in the expanded field of art. A collection of recent essays, Unbounded—Limits’ Possibilities, is published in 2012 with e-flux journal/ Sternberg and her new book, Looking Away—Participating Singularities, Ontological Communities, comes out in 2013. Rogoff lives and works in London.edit
Irit Rogoff, Senior Fellow at the IKKM during winter semester 2010/11, talks about her research project.
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'On Getting Lost' in Lost (ed. Claire Dogherty) Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2000
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Contemporary research no longer recognises the stricture of an informing discipline or the limitations of an interpretative audience. We have moved on from working from inherited knowledges to working from the conditions of our lives. It... more
Contemporary research no longer recognises the stricture of an informing discipline or the limitations of an interpretative audience. We have moved on from working from inherited knowledges to working from the conditions of our lives. It is in fact our work, no longer distanced by illusions of objectivity, that has capacities to change those conditions through forms of direct engagement, both intellectual and cultural. The way we work now, refracted through a set of contemporary conditions and informed by a new vocabulary that goes beyond the critical, is a form of performative enactment. This presentation will unpack some of the emergent terms of our working practices and look at one example of working in this manner by the freethought collective: the ‘Infrastructure’ project at the Bergen assembly 2016.
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Nobody doubts that the contemporary art of Turkey has arrived on the international stage: Hale Tengers work has been bought by the Pompidou Centre; Fikret Atay features in Tate Moderns collection; Kutlug Ataman has been nominated for the... more
Nobody doubts that the contemporary art of Turkey has arrived on the international stage: Hale Tengers work has been bought by the Pompidou Centre; Fikret Atay features in Tate Moderns collection; Kutlug Ataman has been nominated for the Turner Prize; and, collectors flock from around the world to pick up pieces by exceptionally talented Turkish artists. "Unleashed" is the most comprehensive account yet of the recent storm of activity in Turkeys art scene. A sumptuously illustrated A-Z of over ninety of the most exciting Turkish contemporary artists, it contains many exclusive interviews with some of the biggest names in Turkish art, as well as such up-and-coming artists as Leyla Gediz, Emre Huner and Ali Kazmal and the Turkish diaspora. It also features interviews with and profiles of leading curators, gallerists, collectors, artist-run spaces and museums. The work of the featured artists is put into further context by three important essays written by leading curators an...
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Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international conversation among art historians and... more
Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international conversation among art historians and critics that considers the relation between criticism and art history and poses the question of whether criticism may become a university subject. Contributors include Dave Hickey, James Panero, Stephen Melville, Lynne Cook, Michael Newman, Whitney Davis, Irit Rogoff, Guy Brett and Boris Groys
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freethought is a collective working in public research and in curating concepts of urgency. Irit Rogoff, Stefano Harney, Adrian Heathfield, Massimiliano Mollona, Louis Moreno and Nora Sternfeld formed freethought in 2011. Traversing... more
freethought is a collective working in public research and in curating concepts of urgency. Irit Rogoff, Stefano Harney, Adrian Heathfield, Massimiliano Mollona, Louis Moreno and Nora Sternfeld formed freethought in 2011. Traversing disciplines, blending influences, and borrowing forms freethought experiments with new combinations of criticism and practice in the arts. For 2016 Bergen Assembly, freethought focused on its continuing collective interest: Infrastructure. By looking at many different understandings of this keyword – from legacies of colonial and early capitalist systems of governance to current conditions of the financialization of the cultural field to the subversive possibilities of thinking and working with infrastructures as sites of affect and contradiction – infrastructure emerged as the invisible force of manifest culture today. This large-scale investigation reworked the term away from the language of planners and technocrats to put to creative and critical use ...
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Goldsmiths Research Online. Goldsmiths - University of London. ...
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An Anecdoted Archive of Exhibition Lives What are the lives of exhibitions? Are they microcosms of the worlds we live in? The sum of the works exhibited? The traces of the research done for them? The great issues they can point to? ‘An... more
An Anecdoted Archive of Exhibition Lives What are the lives of exhibitions? Are they microcosms of the worlds we live in? The sum of the works exhibited? The traces of the research done for them? The great issues they can point to? ‘An Anecdoted Archive' proposes that exhibitions can be measured by the impact they have had on viewers' consciousness. They can be articulated through what viewers thought they saw, what they felt, what distant worlds were hinted at and what was revealed about their immediate environments. Some exhibitions take place in institutions (museums and galleries) and others are institutions themselves (biennials and international fairs). They gain an independent life when they exceed beyond the institutions that engendered them and link to the substance infrastructures of viewers’ lives. ‘An Anecdoted Archive’ assembles the narratives of significant exhibitionary moments by 15 viewers from around the globe who produce a veritable polyphony of revelation...
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In the last years the concept of Geography undergoes a fundamental transformation. The increasing circulation of people, goods, and data create new cultural, social, and virtual landscapes, which can not be described by traditional... more
In the last years the concept of Geography undergoes a fundamental transformation. The increasing circulation of people, goods, and data create new cultural, social, and virtual landscapes, which can not be described by traditional geo-scientific categories. This publication documents ...
'How to Dress for an Exhibition' in Stopping the Process, ed. Mikka Hannulan, NIFCA, 199
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Looking Away: Participating Singularities – Ontological Communities - Forthcoming, MIT 2010
"Body Missing" - Uncanny Histories and Cultural Hauntings' in Kunst Als Beute, ed. Sigrid Schade, Vienna 2000.
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‘What is a Theorist’ in Was ist ein Kunstler, ed Katharyna Sykora, Berlin, 2003. http://www.kein.org/node/62
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FORMER WEST is a long-term, transnational research, education, publishing, and exhibition project in the field of contemporary art and theory. The project grapples with the repercussions of the political, cultural, and economic events of... more
FORMER WEST is a long-term, transnational research, education, publishing, and exhibition project in the field of contemporary art and theory. The project grapples with the repercussions of the political, cultural, and economic events of 1989 for the contemporary condition. It does so in the search for ways of formerizing the persistently hegemonic conjuncture that is “the West”; to be able instead to simply refer to “the west,” and with it, suggest the possibility of producing new constellations, another world, other worldings. Through the propositional imaginary “former West,” the project brings forth a means by which to assess the contemporary at the intersection of two temporal constructions of “the West”: one equated with the “first world” of a post-WWII, tripartite Cold War arrangement; the other, synonymous with the notion of Western ultramodernity.
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Brought together for the first time, these writings by visual artist and writer Yve Lomax are united by a common thread: they place writing itself--the written image--into the repertoire of visual art. The book both proposes and... more
Brought together for the first time, these writings by visual artist and writer Yve Lomax are united by a common thread: they place writing itself--the written image--into the repertoire of visual art. The book both proposes and demonstrates this development. It also has a twofold purpose and function: it can be read and enjoyed as performance, often resembling poetry, thick with ideas, images and metaphors. It is also an original contribution to theoretical writing on the visual, particularly relating to the image and difference, celebrating and referring to the work of Michel Serres, Gilles Deleuze, Luce Irigaray and others in pursuit of its own strategy of introducing the written image into the theoretical text.
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Contemporary Art from the Middle East: Regional Interactions with Global Art Discourses: Volume 18. How is home-grown contemporary art viewed within the Middle East? And is it understood differently outside the region? What is liable to... more
Contemporary Art from the Middle East: Regional Interactions with Global Art Discourses: Volume 18. How is home-grown contemporary art viewed within the Middle East? And is it understood differently outside the region? What is liable to be lost when contemporary art from the Middle East is 'transferred' to international contexts - and how can it be reclaimed? This timely book tackles ongoing questions about how 'local' perspectives on contemporary art from the Middle East are defined and how these perspectives intersect with global art discourses. Inside, leading figures from the Middle Eastern art world, western art historians, art theorists and museum curators discuss the historical and cultural circumstances which have shaped contemporary art from the Middle East, reflecting on recent exhibitions and curatorial projects and revealing how artists have struggled with the label of 'Middle Eastern Artist'. Chapters reflect on the fundamental methodologies of a...
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Contemporary research no longer recognises the stricture of an informing discipline or the limitations of an interpretative audience. We have moved on from working from inherited knowledges to working from the conditions of our lives. It... more
Contemporary research no longer recognises the stricture of an informing discipline or the limitations of an interpretative audience. We have moved on from working from inherited knowledges to working from the conditions of our lives. It is in fact our work, no longer distanced by illusions of objectivity, that has capacities to change those conditions through forms of direct engagement, both intellectual and cultural. The way we work now, refracted through a set of contemporary conditions and informed by a new vocabulary that goes beyond the critical, is a form of performative enactment. This presentation will unpack some of the emergent terms of our working practices and look at one example of working in this manner by the freethought collective: the ‘Infrastructure’ project at the Bergen assembly 2016.
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'We - Mutualities, Collectivities, Participations' in I Promise its Political, Museum Ludwig: Cologne, 2002 .
Book co-authored by Gavin Butt and Irit Rogoff. The contemporary art world has become more inhospitable to “serious” intellectual activity in recent years. Critical discourse has been increasingly instrumentalized in the service of... more
Book co-authored by Gavin Butt and Irit Rogoff. The contemporary art world has become more inhospitable to “serious” intellectual activity in recent years. Critical discourse has been increasingly instrumentalized in the service of neoliberal art markets and institutions, and artists are pressurized by the demands of popularity and funding bodies. Set against this context, Gavin Butt and Irit Rogoff raise the question of “seriousness” in art and culture. What is seriousness exactly, and where does it reside? Is it a desirable value in contemporary culture? Or is it bound up with elite class and institutional cultures? Butt and Rogoff reflect on such questions through historical and theoretical lenses, and explore whether or not it might be possible to pursue knowledge and value in contemporary culture without recourse to high-brow gravitas. Can certain art forms—such as performance art—suggest ways in which we might be intelligent without being serious? And can one be serious in the...
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... recently published a double-page spread on how Weru community had organised itself to build a road through the village. Linking pilots to policy The question posed is how does one scale up these pilot activities? How does... more
... recently published a double-page spread on how Weru community had organised itself to build a road through the village. Linking pilots to policy The question posed is how does one scale up these pilot activities? How does participatory technology development spread ...
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Museums are the staging grounds of culture-a close look reveals that museums display much more than artifacts, and this perceptive tour of our collected and catalogued culture affords such a look. This book conducts us through the complex... more
Museums are the staging grounds of culture-a close look reveals that museums display much more than artifacts, and this perceptive tour of our collected and catalogued culture affords such a look. This book conducts us through the complex of ideas, values, and symbols that ...
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In Practicing Research: Singularising Knowledge, Irit Rogoff critically interrogates the academy as location for the dissemination of an artistic knowledge production particularly in the light of protocols of current cognitive capitalism.
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'In the Empire of the Object - the Geographies of Ana Mendieta' in Outsiders - Studies in Cultural Marginality ed. Vera Zollberg. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1997.
• ‘Academy as Potentiality” in A.C.A.D.E.M.Y (eds. Angelika Nollert and Irit Rogoff) Revolver, 2006
New Interventions in Art History Series editor: Dana Arnold, University of Southampton New Interventions in Art History is a series of textbook mini-companions published in connection with the Association of Art Historians that aims... more
New Interventions in Art History Series editor: Dana Arnold, University of Southampton New Interventions in Art History is a series of textbook mini-companions published in connection with the Association of Art Historians that aims to provide innovative approaches to, and new perspectives ...
Ten years after the last edition, this thoroughly revised and updated third edition of The Visual Culture Reader highlights the transformed and expanded nature of globalized visual cultures. It assembles key new writings, visual essays... more
Ten years after the last edition, this thoroughly revised and updated third edition of The Visual Culture Reader highlights the transformed and expanded nature of globalized visual cultures. It assembles key new writings, visual essays and specially commissioned articles, emphasizing the intersections of the Web 2.0, digital cultures, globalization, visual arts and media, and the visualizations of war. The volume attests to the maturity and exciting development of this cutting-edge field. Fully illustrated throughout, The Reader features an introductory section tracing the development of what editor Nicholas Mirzoeff calls "critical visuality studies." It develops into thematic sections, each prefaced by an introduction by the editor, with an emphasis on global coverage. Each thematic section includes suggestions for further reading. Thematic sections include: •Expansions •War and Violence •Attention and Visualizing Economy •Bodies and Minds •Histories and Memories •(Post/...