VIDEO DOCUMENTATION

Both the brutal clarity and cold materiality that distinguish the oeuvre of Cady Noland turn things supposedly familiar and commonplace into manifestations of power and violence through exclusion, containment, control and punishment, but also expressions of longing for consumption and mobility. The immediacy of her works blurs the boundaries between object and subject.

One Day on Cady Noland seeks to revive the discursive debate that—owing to Noland’s long withdrawal from exhibition activity—has taken place only on occasion over the past years. The lectures will examine her work from art- and cultural-historical, philosophical and artistic perspectives. In the process, such issues as her artistic method, aspects of (post-)minimalism, objectification, transgression or the differences between socially accepted and terrorist violence as a means of individuation will present themselves for discussion.

Program

11am–1pm
Kristina Hasenpflug: Welcome

Susanne Pfeffer: Introduction

Inka Meißner: No Symbols, no Trade

Larne Abse Gogarty: For your own Security

2:30–4:30pm
Peter Osborne: The Obviousness and Opaqueness of the 80s: Cady Noland’s Dirty Minimalism, Squeaky Clean

Jeannine Tang: Couplings and Uncouplings

5–6pm
Diedrich Diederichsen: Hardware Store and Transgression: Doing your Thing

Moderated by Anna Sailer