"The Subway Series" A Joint Colloquium Between Harvard History of Science and MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Critical Art Practice and Biomedical Citizenship Lisa Cartwright University of California, San Diego Abstract: This talk moves across the work of contemporary artists who engage in science practice and collaboration as a form of social engagement and institutional critique, bringing their work explicitly into dialog with issues of participatory biological citizenship and public engagement in discourses of risk and information assessment and management. Beginning with the recently revitalized physical biological systems work of Hans Haacke from the late 1960s and moving through the 'tactical biopolitics' and 'contestational biology' performances of Critical Art Ensemble and Beatriz da Costa, and concluding with a discussion of Natalie Jeremijenko's 'environmental health clinic,' model, I consider the art historical paradigm of institutional critique out of which this model of inter-institutional practice emerged; the working arrangements across universities, laboratories, galleries, and industry that have made these communities of practice possible; and the example of the state's attempt to manage the flow of biological agents as material and intellectual property. Monday, April 5, 2010 4pm MIT, E51-095
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