Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/07-11-2012 -Event 3

Fine Art: Public lecture 19:00 (lg project space)

De Sidere a lecture by Antonia Hirsch

Departing from Nicolaus Copernicus's dual expertise--astronomical and economic--De Sidere considers planetary and monetary circulation in order to speculate on parallel movements of thought animated by affect. The title of this talk points to a metaphoric figure: the term "desire" is thought to stem from Latin de sidere, meaning "from the stars." This conjures the notion of reaching for the stars, an infinite expanse (and the potential for infinite expansion--one of the basic tenets of capitalism), of factual science inflected by myth and dream, and the idea of an ordering of chaos into a system of constellations that can be read and possibly illuminate the future. Proposing circulation as an expanded form of exchange (the fundamental expression of economic activity) and a social process that involves as its necessary elements representation and abstraction, De Sidere will propose exchange to be crucial to the process of self-articulation and the formation of ethical structures.

Antonia Hirsch is an artist whose work has been exhibited at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Power Plant, Toronto, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Tramway, Glasgow, and ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, among others. Her work can be found in public collections such as that of the Vancouver Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry, Miami Beach. Her writing and projects have appeared, among others, in artecontexto, C magazine, Fillip, and The Happy Hypocrite. She is the editor of the anthology Intangible Economies, published by Fillip in 2012.