Tomorrow! 7 pm! THE DARK POOL – Event: A Talk by Marina Vishmidt & Reading by Danny Hayward Thursday 9th October 7.00pm - this event is free but seating is limited Hollybush Gardens, 1-2 Warner Yard, London EC1R 5EY Marina Vishmidt Dither and Ooze: The Dialectics of Matter at a Standstill How can we describe the relationship between art and capital in the current phase of crisis? The logic of speculation makes them increasingly convergent, both dedicated to the erasure of labor and open-ended expansion-subsumption as their spontaneous ideology. Vishmidt argues that that speculation is a paradoxical mode in the sense that, just as capitalism itself was once judged to have a progressive side through power to abstract and dissolve, we can see a propositional and negative side - negative in the sense of corrosive to the status quo - in the speculative movement of contemporary art. Danny Hayward will read from his recently published collection, People (MTN Press 2013), a compendium of poems, essays and drama. “And so it was that I came to turn from the path, the longest to walk down, which, forking again and again into a surplus of ecstatic arteries, multiplying in excess of the mind, and spreading inexorably away from the heart, at last bled into dark platforms; hooded stages; a million scaffolds, each with its own speaker, playing on repeat forever its incandescent naked scream for a true and unfaltering unity.” Marina Vishmidt is a London-based writer, editor and critic occupied mainly with questions around art, labour and value. She is the author of Speculation as a Mode of Production (Brill, early 2016) and A for Autonomy (with Kerstin Stakemeier) (Textem, late 2014). She often works with artists and contributes to journals such as Mute, Afterall, Texte zur Kunst, Ephemera, South Atlantic Quarterly, Parkett, and OPEN! as well as working with artists moving image in critical and exhibition contexts such as feminist film distributor Cinenova and Full Unemployment Cinema. Danny Hayward is a writer and poet based in London and his poetry has been published in Friends 1,Viersomes 0, and Hi Zero 1. His numerous contributions to radical journals and pamphlets include: ‘Two Essays: Best and Worst in Poetry / Perfect Capitalism’ from Veer Books; Adventures in the Sausage Factory: A Cursory Overview of UK University Struggles, November 2010 - July 2011 in Mute; John Maynard Nothing in Mute; The Essential Standpoint of Man: An Autopsy, in Three Parts in World Picture Journal 6; Exit Strategies: Some Problems of Commitment in Keston Sutherlands The Proxy Inhumanity of Forklifts in The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry 3:1. For further information contact us: [email protected]
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