More than 20 years after the political transformation and end of the Cold War, we would like to take stock of emergent trends in contemporary art theory related to the marginal positions. The situation and position of art and art history in East-Central Europe have changed in the new world order, in an increasingly globalized world in which physical and cultural proximity are complexly interrelated. It seems that at the moment there is no widely accepted “master” narrative or dominant paradigm in art theory. Rather, we find ourselves in a pluralistic global market of ideas, circulating within uncertain, fluctuating boundaries among a number of different paradigms and competing theories. In the framework of the Budapest Ludwig lecture series, we would like to better understand how leading art theoreticians view the present situation and the criteria for an art theory that would contribute to interpret the marginal or ex-marginal positions.
Today's lecture: On Similarity
Lecturer: Boris Groys, philosopher, theorist, New York University, Karlsruhe