Lars Bang Larsen & Sᴓren Andreasen
Simultaneous translation English – Catalan
Espai 4. 7pm
Free entry. Limited places

Contemporary culture is haunted by multiple spectres, whether they are discourses of origin or naturalizations of mediation, but also by its lack of concepts for those types of mediation that effectuate movements without progress rather than representation, stabilization and control. In a sense, there is no more need for explanation: as mediators who are positively interested in mediation we expect to be carried away. In our lecture-discussion we will talk through a patchwork of mediatory practices capable of arriving at less probable destinations.

Søren Andreasen is an artist based in Copenhagen. Recent exhibitions include The 8th Climate, the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), The Real After Psychedelia, CAC Vilnius (2015), Literacy-Illiteracy, 16. Tallinn Print Triennale (2014), Leisure, Discipline and Punishment, Contour 6, Mechelen (2013). Recent publications include Mass and order 2, mediabus (2016), Will and Nerve Force in relation to Symbolic Culture, Space Poetry (2013) and, with Lars Bang Larsen, The Critical Mass of Mediation, Internationalistisk Ideale (2012/2014). www.sorenandreasen.net.

A writer, curator and art historian, Lars Bang Larsen is a guest lecturer at the HEAD in Geneva. He has (co-)curated group exhibitions such as Incerteza Viva, the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, Reflections from Damaged Life (Raven Row, London 2013) and Georgiana Houghton: Spirit Drawings (Courtauld Gallery, London 2016). His books include The Model. A Model for a Qualitative Society 1968 (2010), Networks (2014) and Arte y norma (2016). His PhD on art and psychedelia was entitled ‘A History of Irritated Material’.