Nina Trivedi

Speculative Materialism @ Camden Arts Centre, Jan 6 – 20

4 January 2016

Art Theory: Speculative Materialism course will be running at London’s Camden Arts Centre, January 6 – 20.

Curator and lecturer Nina Trivedi will look to the concurrent exhibitions in the space by Florian Roithmayr and Rose English as starting points to examine the recent writing and thinking around objects and matter in art now.

The two-week course will investigate more specifically the wider social and political implications of theories such as ‘object orientated ontology’ and New Materialism, as well as the evolving relationship between artists and designers.

See the Camden Arts Centre for more details.**

Florian Roithmayr, with, and, or, without (2015). Exhibition view. Courtesy Camden Arts Centre, London.
Florian Roithmayr, with, and, or, without (2015). Exhibition view. Courtesy Camden Arts Centre, London.
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Speculative Writing @ Tenderbooks, Feb 24

24 February 2015

London’s Tenderbooks is launching a programme of talks and discussions to coincide with the How to Construct a Time Machine exhibition at Milton Keynes Gallery on February 24.

The independent artist bookseller has teamed up with MK, joining the exhibition’s curator, Marquard Smith, with Journal of Visual Culture book reviews editor Nina Trivedi and curator Simon Wright to organise a conversation about the recent speculative turn in philosophy. The exhibition’s title, taken from a 1899 text by avant-garde French writer Alfred Jarry, points to the exhibition’s preoccupation with science fiction or ‘the science of imaginary solutions’.

Trivedi, functioning as both organiser and speaker, will be joined by Living in the Future co-editor Rebecca Bligh and curator and writer Harry Burke to discuss the materiality of language and the “shift towards a new materialism” which holds speculation at its core.

See the event page for details. **

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