Bazon Brock’s lecture is part of this year’s courses offered by the Department of Architectural Theory at RWTH Aachen University, which deal with curatorial practices with regard to sustainability. Under the title Zeigekunst: Kurator*innen als Zauberlehrlinge. Wie man hinsieht durchs Wegsehen, wie man aufs Ende hin beginnt, wie man auf das zeigt, was nicht gezeigt wird (Zeigekunst: Curators as magician’s apprentices. How to look by looking away, how to begin towards the end, how to point to what is not shown), Bazon Brock will present the results of his many years of reflection on the subject. The lecture is not only aimed at students but at anyone interested.
In cooperation with RWTH Aachen. The lecture will be held in German.
Free admission.
Bazon Brock is Emeritus Professor at the Chair of Aesthetics and Cultural Mediation at the University of Wuppertal. He also held professorships at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (1965-1976) and the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (1977-1980). He received an honorary degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (1992) and from the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (2012). In 2014 he was awarded an honorary professorship in the field of prophecy at the HBKsaar, Saarbrücken and in 2016 he was awarded the Von der Heydt Prize of the City of Wuppertal. In 2017, he received the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class. Brock developed the method of “Action Teaching”, in which every sentence becomes a stage. He founded the documenta visitor schools in Kassel which he ran from 1968 to 1992 and organized around 3,000 events and action-teaching pieces; most recently including “Lustmarsch durchs Theoriegelände” (2006, in eleven museums). Since 2011, he has been running the Denkerei in Berlin as the “Institute for Theoretical Art, Universal Poetry and Prognostics”, with a focus on “Working on Unsolvable Problems” (www.denkerei-berlin.de).
