Conference, round table discussion
In conjunction with the group exhibition Art & Alienation and the SNSF-funded research project Real Abstractions: Reconsidering Realism’s Role for the Present (University of Fribourg and Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art), the lecture and roundtable will examine contemporary artistic strategies for resisting the real abstractions of capitalism and the recent emergence of neofascist aesthetics in the digital sphere. In her book What We Do is Secret (Sternberg Press, 2023), writer and art historian Larne Abse Gogarty suggests that we can understand conspiracy as one such strategy. The roundtable discussion will explore the links between capitalism, conspiracy, and the art of (dis)alienation today.
Programme détaillé
16:00 : Introduction by Clara Chavan and Tobias Ertl
16:15 : Guided tour of Art & Alienation with Nicolas Brulhart
17:00 : Lecture by Larne Abse Gogarty, “Anti-luxurious expressionism”: Salvage, scavenging, sabotage and sculpture
18:00 : Roundtable: Larne Abse Gogarty in conversation with Wolfgang Brückle, Nicolas Brulhart, Tobias Ertl and Julia Gelshorn
19:00 : Apéro
Dates and timetable
27 September 2025
Saturday16:00 - 20:00
Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Petites-Rames 22
1701 Fribourg
+41 26 323 23 51
