Event Listing - Education, Organizations

Mon Feb 26, 2007

San Francisco Art Institute

Art Historian Anne Wagner Gives Public Lecture

"Behaving Globally"


Tel. 415-771-7020
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Location
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800 Chestnut St.
San Francisco, CA 94133 map
cross street: Jones St.
district: North Beach/Telegraph Hill


Mon Feb 26, 2007 (7:30pm)

Description
Anne M. Wagner

Monday, February 26, 2007
7:30pm, free and open to the public

“Behaving Globally”

“One has no choice,” writes the artist Candice Breitz “if one lives in large urban centers, but to consume the cultural produce of global capitalism. But consumption must be followed by digestion and then excretion.” By these lights globalization is both a somatic experience and a bodily process. But does what passes through us in the guise of global culture leave some structuring trace? When does performance stop, if at all? This lecture considers various contemporary efforts to figure these issues, not least through what sets them apart from the main assumptions of 1970s approaches to cultural imperialism. Globalized behavior, it seems, cannot simply be understood as hegemonically imposed. Anne M. Wagner is an art historian who has published widely on nineteenth-and twentieth-century art. Since 1988, she has been a professor in the Department of History of Art at UC Berkeley.