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THE HEIGHTS OF ECSTASY
Halloween party celebrating four Slought Foundation DVD releases featuring Simon Critchley, Alain Badiou, Vito Acconci, Werner Herzog, Dennis Oppenheim and others. Critchley will sit in a very tall chair and deliver a sermon on the effects of elevation on thinking, ecstasy, and self-deification. Prizes for best costume...
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Listen to a 26 minute recording, or download the file
Friday, October 31, 2008
Cabinet magazine (300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn, NYC)
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Slought Publications and Microcinema International invite you to join us in celebrating our new DVD publication series at the Cabinet magazine event space on Friday, October 31, 2008 from 8:00-10:00pm at 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217 (Phone: 718-222-8434).
Slought Foundation's first four DVD releases--featuring the work of Simon Critchley, Alain Badiou, Vito Acconci, Werner Herzog, and Dennis Oppenheim--each address ideas about ecstasy, risk, experimentation, and height. Accordingly, we have invited Critchley to sit in a very tall chair, newly commissioned for the Cabinet magazine event space, and deliver a sermon on the effects of elevation on thinking, ecstasy, and self-deification. Please note that admission to the party is free, however, in keeping with Halloween, disguises are recommended with prizes for best costume.
Images: Vitas Luckus, The Feast 1979; ?; Bruce Nauman, Failing to Levitate in the Studio 1966; 18th Century engraving of St Joseph in flight and Yves Klein, Le saut dans le vide (Obsession de la lévitation) 1960.
Slought Publications, the publishing imprint of the Slought Foundation, publishes a variety of artist monographs and interdisciplinary collections of critical essays on topics such as contemporary art, art theory, and curatorial practice. Our new DVD publication series, distributed by Microcinema International, attempts to construct an archive of the temporal—in particular, the site-specific conversations and exhibitions that took place from 2007-2008 at Slought Foundation in Philadelphia. We will celebrate and screen these releases:
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On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying, a public conversation with filmmaker Werner Herzog and Karen Beckman, about aliens as a fixture of our imagination, the fundamental achievement of the human race, and the ecstasy of ski-flying.
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Vito Acconci at Acconci Studio, New York, a conversation with artist/architect Vito Acconci exploring his engagement with the page, the streets of New York, galleries, and public environments.
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Democracy and Disappointment: On the Politics of Resistance, a conversation between Alain Badiou and Simon Critchley addressing the politics of resistance, with a brochure featuring their recent philosophical writings about politics, heroism, and poetics.
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Tooth and Nail: Film and Video 1970-1974 by Dennis Oppenheim, a selection of historic film and video works by Dennis Oppenheim known as the Aspen Tapes, in which the artist uses his own body as a site of experimentation on the personal.
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Read the full curatorial essay
Media files on the Slought.org website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
MLA Style:
Halloween party celebrating four Slought Foundation DVD releases featuring Simon Critchley, et al. "THE HEIGHTS OF ECSTASY." Slought Foundation Online Content. [31 October 2008;
Accessed 7 February 2012]. <http://slought.org/content/11411/>.
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