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Warburg Institute - Museums of the Mind & Director's Seminar Series: Spring 2021 All events are free and online via zoom, with advanced booking Thursday 4 March 2021: 6.00pm Museums of the Mind: 'Cinema and the Museum - a discussion' Artist John Akomfrah, critic and screenwriter Emilie Bickerton, and Deborah N. Landis, director of the David C. Copley Center of Costume Design at UCLA, in conversation with Fatema Ahmed, deputy editor of Apollo Magazine. Booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24037 Over the course of a year in which many museums have been closed for months, it has become clear that they continue to give us much to think about even when we cannot visit them. Apollo, in partnership with the Warburg Institute, presents 'Museums of the Mind' - a series of discussions about how museums reflect and refract art forms and other fields that may not traditionally have been considered their preserve. For 'Cinema and the Museum' we ask - given the existence of cinemas and dedicated film museums - what it means to make exhibitions about cinema in art museums. Would auteurs like Eisenstein and Tarkovsky be horrified by exhibitions that present fragments of their works - or would they be flattered? Is video art in black box galleries a type of cinema? And how have films of all kinds, from nouvelle vague classics to Hollywood heist movies, shaped how we expect museums to present the past and how we react to those displays? Friday 5 March 2021, 5.00pm Warburg Director's Seminar: 'Arts of the Critical Zone' A conversation with philosopher Bruno Latour, Joseph Leo Koerner (Harvard University), and Frédérique Aït-Touati (CNRS and the EHESS, Paris) Booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23965 Earth-systems scientists refer to the region a few hundred metres above and below the earth's surface as the "critical zone"- the earth's fragile skin, where the interactions of weather, water, soil, and stone form the conditions for life. Philosopher Bruno Latour co-curated the current exhibition, Critical Zones, at the ZKM in Karlsruhe to explore the seismic implications of reorienting science, politics, art, and religion towards this area. The exhibit and its catalog, Critical Zones: the Science and Politics of Landing on Earth - named one of the New York Times' best art books of 2020 - explore the new kinds of attention, political alliances, care for nonhuman surroundings, and arts of inhabitation demanded by our "earthly" condition. In this rare event, Bruno Latour will discuss the exhibit and catalogue, joined by art historian, Joseph Leo Koerner, and historian of science and literature, Frédérique Aït-Touati. Their conversation will excavate what an earthly art and art history might look like, undertaken from the critical zone. Friday 12 March 2021, 5.30pm Warburg Director's Seminar: 'Foucault's pendulum and us: On the occasion of an installation by Gerhard Richter' - with Michael Hagner (ETH Zurich) Booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23905 In 1851, when French physicist Léon Foucault demonstrated the rotation of the earth with his pendulum experiment, no one needed any further proof that Copernicus was correct. Nevertheless, Foucault's pendulum is among the most famous experiments in the history of science. Drawing from his new book, Foucaults Pendel und wir (Walther Koenig, 2021), science historian Michael Hagner sets the history of the pendulum in the context of cosmological, political and aesthetic ideas and values. The experiment was closely linked to controversial debates about the Parisian Pantheon as a "lieu de mémoire" and played an important role in the emergence of popular science. In the Soviet Union and in the United States, the pendulum became an emblem for the progress of civilisation and a symbol for scientific and ideological power. By the end of the Cold War, Umberto Eco reenchanted the pendulum in his postmodern novel, paving the way for a reconfiguration of the pendulum as a work of art-a possibility seized in Gerhard Richter's late installation Zwei graue Doppelspiegel für ein Pendel (2018). This talk traces the oscillating meanings of an experiment seen to prove both the stability of science and the incessant of movement of the earth. The Warburg Institute School of Advanced Study | University of London Woburn Square | London WC1H 0AB T: +44 (0)20 7862 8910 | E: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/ ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the LIT-LANG-CULTURE-EVENTS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=LIT-LANG-CULTURE-EVENTS&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/LIT-LANG-CULTURE-EVENTS, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/