New Knowledge

The Old Brand New Lecture with With Achille Mbembe, Bracha L. Ettinger and Sarat Maharaj

10 feb 2009
10 feb 2009

THE OLD BRAND NEW is an English language interdisciplinary lecture series revolving around the concept ‘new’ in the arts. On the 10th of February with Achille Mbembe, Bracha L. Ettinger and Sarat Maharaj.

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In recent decades there has been a movement towards developing alternative forms of ‘thinking together’, undermining conventional methods or institutionalized ideas on the production and transfer of knowledge. Manifestations and festivals have increasingly adopted formats such as temporary schools or mobile academies as centres of collective knowledge production and collaborative research. Although the underlying assumption seems to be the admirable idea that knowledge is produced in the course of a process, through participation and exchange and is not an absolute entity that is passively received from an intellectual authority by the uninformed, a more fundamental questioning of the background and future perspectives of this development is required. Can the field of art truly be a site for producing knowledge in a different, new - and potentially more egalitarian - ways?

Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam
Door opens at 19.45
Lecture 1 between 20.30 - 21.15
Break between 21.15 - 21.35
Lecture 2 between 21.35 - 22.20
Aftertalk between 22.35 - 23.00

For more information, visit the The Old Brand New website.