Christel Vesters

This talk has been canceled due to illness. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. -- In her talk, Christel Vesters will reflect on the concept of ‘visual art as knowledge’ and the idea of art as resistant knowledge, or, as the South African art historian Sarat Maharaj formulates it, art generating its own epistemological map. The lecture will explore different examples in which artists and other cultural producers over the years have challenged the dominant ideas around knowledge and knowledge production, especially those projects that adopt or imitate the structures, systems and devices of ‘official’ knowledge systems and tweak, question or subvert their ‘canonical’ status, whilst at the same time proposing an alternative.