Boris Groys / The Art Judgement Show

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ROOMADE PRESENTS

BORIS GROYS
THE ART JUDGEMENT SHOW
OORDELEN OVER KUNST
COMMENT JUGER L'ART

21.09-01 ­  20.10.01

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The Art Judgement Show is a television talk show that asks the question,
'How does one judge art?' Modelling himself on chat-show hosts such as
Arabella and Oprah, the distinguished art historian and philosopher Boris
Groys discusses with a group of students whether today, 'art' still has any
relevance, whether it is significantly different from commercial pursuits
such as advertising, design and popular music, and what criteria should be
used in order to evaluate it.
Although the issues this raises, relating to language, taste, art discourse
and philosophy, are often relegated to a purely academic field, TV lends
itself well to such culturally relevant questions. Most initiatives to adapt
philosophy to the television format, however, end with trivial chats in
front of an electronic fire. In The Art Judgement Show, Groys follows the
opposite path, bringing fascinating philosophical conversation in an
accessible form to the general public ­ just as Socrates found his
interlocutors in the market square.

Boris Groys is Professor of Aesthetics and Media Theory at the Zentrum für
Kunst und Medientechnologie (Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe and
since 2000 Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He is one of the
most influential theoreticians in the fields of contemporary art and
culture. He has published widely on modernism and the avant-garde and is the
author of many books, including The Total Art of Stalinism (1988), On the
New: Essay on Cultural Economy (1992), and Logic of the Collection (1997),
he is a frequent contributor to Parkett, Artforum, Art in America and has
written on such contemporary artists as Ilya Kabakov, Peter Fischil & David
Weiss, Douglas Gordon, Rodney Graham, and Richard Prince.

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Boris Groys
The Art Judgement Show
Barbara Vanderlinden (Ed.), Zdenka Badovinac and Boris Groys
240 x 200 mm
160 pages, 132 colour and b/w images
ISBN 90-71122-01-8


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