On Social Scores (and the Curatorial Turn in Education —not what you think)
de Appel, Prins Hendrikkade 142, Amsterdam
Pablo Helguera, Vita Vel Regula, 2013, game for 50 participants to be played once; concluding in 2097. installation view
Luigi Acerra
On Wednesday, April 10 at 20:00 hrs, artist Pablo Helguera will give a lecture/performance at the Chambre Séparée of MOES. The presentation will consists of a performative and participatory enacting of a social score, followed by a discussion on his latest book 'Art Scenes: The Social Scripts of the Art World'. During this discussion, Helguera will present a number of recent projects that reflect on how social performance has displaced the preeminence of the object, and discuss how socially engaged art actively addresses this issue.
On Wednesday, April 10 at 20:00 hrs, artist Pablo Helguera will give a lecture/performance at the Chambre Séparée of MOES. The presentation will consists of a performative and participatory enacting of a social score, followed by a discussion on his latest book 'Art Scenes: The Social Scripts of the Art World'. During this discussion, Helguera will present a number of recent projects that reflect on how social performance has displaced the preeminence of the object, and discuss how socially engaged art actively addresses this issue.
Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a New York based artist working with installation, sculpture, drawing, socially engaged art and performance. Helguera has worked since 1991 in a variety of contemporary art museums, most recently as Head of Public Programmes at the Education department of the Guggenheim Museum in New York (1998-2005). Since 2007, he is Director of Adult and Academic programmes at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York.
Seats are limited. Please RSVP through reservation [at] deappel.nl
Free entrance
Location MOES, bar and restaurant.