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74 past projects are available



Cross-Catalytic Architectures

There are no mistakes in history. The whole of history is a mistake. (2009-06-04)
Featuring: Catherine Millet, Nicolas Bourriaud, Jean-Hubert Martin, Lorand Hegyi, Zelimir Koscevic, Aaron Levy, and Braco Dimitrijevic

Into the Open: Public Programs (2009-08-07)
Featuring: Presented by the National Constitution Center, Independence Mall

Choose From Past Projects In The Series

Into the Open: The Conference (2009-04-24)
Featuring: at Parsons The New School for Design,

featuring presentations by Teddy Cruz, Deborah Gans, Laura Kurgan, and Rick Lowe, with agents provocateurs Jean Gardner, Robert Kirkbride, David J. Lewis, Lydia Matthews, Brian McGrath, Raoul Rickenberg, Bob Rubin, Grahame Shane, John Thackara, Susan Yelavich, Alfred Zollinger, Sven Travis, Miodrag Mitrasinovic, and William Bevington


Dialogues on Animality (2009-10-02)
Featuring: With a keynote presentation by Akira Mizuta Lippit


Choose From Past Projects In The Series

On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life (2002-10-31)
Featuring: Eric Santner


The Future of Theory? (2002-11-01)
Featuring: Jean-Michel Rabaté, Gregg Lambert


The Future of an Event (in Art and Technology) (2003-02-22)
Featuring: Krzystof Ziarek, Ewa Ziarek, Jean-Michel Rabaté


Palm reading: Fazal Sheikh's Handbook of Death (2003-03-06)
Featuring: Eduardo Cadava


Art versus Philosophy: A Debate (2003-03-20)
Featuring: Joe Margolis, Osvaldo Romberg, Jean-Michel Rabaté


On the Art of the Future (2003-04-09)
Featuring: Susan Stewart


Digital Fever: Archiving Art and Poetry Online (2003-04-10)
Featuring: Craig Dworkin, Kenny Goldsmith, Brian Kim Stefans, Darren Wershler-Henry


Collaboration Between Two Worlds: Selling Russia to the West (2003-04-16)
Featuring: Komar & Melamid, Arden Reed, Kevin Platt


On Paranoia, Superstition and Irrationality (2003-04-18)
Featuring: Catherine Liu, Jean-Michel Rabaté


The Future of Theory, II (Feminism, Phenomenology, Philosophy) (2003-05-08)
Featuring: Dorothea Olkowski, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Greg Flaxman


On Coprophilia and the Avant-garde (2004-01-31)
Featuring: William Anastasi


Beckett and the Unfilmable (2004-02-12)
Featuring: Branka Arsic, Jean-Michel Rabaté


A Conversation on Joyce and Duchamp via Jarry (2004-02-28)
Featuring: William Anastasi, in conversation with Jean-Michel Rabaté


Introduction to the New Society (2004-02-28)
Featuring: Lenore Malen


A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture (2004-03-13)
Featuring: Rafi Segal, Eyal Weizman


The City as Art-Work of the 21st Century (2004-03-26)
Featuring: Diane Lewis, Deborah Gans


Neurotic Cities: Barnes in Philadelphia (2004-04-01)
Featuring: The Barnes Foundation


Poetry Engines and Prosthetic Imaginations (2004-04-29)
Featuring: Jim Carpenter, Bob Perelman, Nick Montfort, Jean-Michel Rabaté


My Lacan is Burning: Revisiting 'Television' (2004-06-02)
Featuring: Catherine Liu, Charles Shepherdson, Jean-Michel Rabaté


The Mechanism of Death (2004-09-30)
Featuring: Dorothea Olkowski, Jean-Michel Rabaté


On Revolutions (2004-11-04)
Featuring: Rebecca Comay, Eduardo Cadava, Jean-Michel Rabaté


The 'Civilization' of the Cinema (2004-11-19)
Featuring: John Mowitt, Gregory Flaxman


The Politics of Mourning (2004-12-27)
Featuring: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, in conversation with Eduardo Cadava, et al.


Ubu meets Gertrude (Towards A Post-textual Avant-garde) (2004-12-28)
Featuring: Johanna Drucker, Christian Bök, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg


Literary Honeycombs: Storage and Retrieval of Texts Before Modern Times (2005-02-17)
Featuring: Anthony Grafton


Museum Politics in France and the New European Art Scene (2005-02-17)
Featuring: Lorand Hegyi


On Body & Performance (2005-03-03)
Featuring: Hal Foster, in conversation with Brigid Doherty


PAIN-FASHION (2005-03-17)
Featuring: Branka Arsic, in conversation


Pioneering art in the 1960s: Philadelphia (2005-04-06)
Featuring: Paul Makler, Hope Makler, John Ollman, Judith Stein

Morphology / Face Shift (2005-09-30)
Featuring: Arthur Elsenaar, Remko Scha


Cities: A Seminar (2005-10-08)
Featuring: Hélène Cixous


East & East: Divergent Readings in Culture and Politics (2005-11-03)
Featuring: Lorand Hegyi, Nebojsa Seric Soba

¡Zizek! and the Public Intellectual Craze (2005-12-01)
Featuring: Astra Taylor, Eduardo Cadava, Anne Norton, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Daniel Dayan


Who Am I For Myself? Anxiety & The Tyranny of Choice (2006-02-16)
Featuring: Renata Salecl, Charles Shepherdson, Patricia Gherovici, Jean-Michel Rabaté


On Testing, Torture, and Experimentation: The Test Drive (2006-03-15)
Featuring: Avital Ronell, Eduardo Cadava, Jean-Michel Rabaté


Film as Critical Practice: The Cinema of Guy Debord and the Spectre of the Situationist International (2006-04-06)
Featuring: Thomas Y. Levin, Keith Sanborn, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Anthony Vidler


BODYANALYSIS / Violence as Vulnerability: Günter Brus’s Surgical Art (2006-09-27)
Featuring: Cecilia Novero


On Bareback Subcultures and the Pornography of Risk (2006-10-06)
Featuring: Tim Dean, Robert Caserio, Heather Love, Jean-Michel Rabaté


Celebrating Hélène Cixous' Ex-Cities (2006-10-14)
Featuring: The Drawing Center, La Maison Française


On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Negativity for Life (2006-11-10)
Featuring: Barrett Watten


Cross-Catalytic Architectures (2006-12-05)
Featuring: Cecil Balmond, in conversation with Peter Lloyd Jones


Rrrevolutionnaire Book Launch / Philadelphia (2006-12-29)
Featuring: Branka Arsic, Eduardo Cadava, Gregory Flaxman, Gregg Lambert, Aaron Levy, Catherine Liu, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Avital Ronell


Honoring the Work and Person(s) of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-2007) (2007-03-23)
Featuring: New York University, Columbia University


The Scandals of H.G.: Photography, Literature, Activism (2007-04-20)
Featuring: Emily Apter, Anne-Cécile Guilbard, Jean-Michel Rabaté


Screening the Avant-Garde Face (2007-09-27)
Featuring: Mary Ann Doane


Conversations with Braco Dimitrijević's 'The Casual Passer-By I Met...' (2007-10-11)
Featuring: With Braco and Nena Dimitrijevic, David Brownlee, Katherine Carl, Laura Heffernan, David Hollenberg and Mark Kocent, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Michael Howard, and Aaron Levy,

Introduced and moderated by undergraduate students in the RBSL Bergman Foundation Curatorial Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania



Walking on Ice: Werner Herzog's Metaphysics of Filmmaking (2007-10-22)
Featuring: Timothy Corrigan, Alan Singer, Heidi Schlipphacke


On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying (2007-10-25)
Featuring: Werner Herzog, in conversation with Karen Beckman


Radical Atheism: Derrida's Notion of Desire (2007-11-01)
Featuring: Martin Hägglund


Democracy and Disappointment: On the Politics of Resistance (2007-11-15)
Featuring: Alain Badiou, in conversation with Simon Critchley


Is there a world beyond media? Art as a rewriting program (2008-02-07)
Featuring: Peter Weibel


Modernism: The Time of the Unconscious (2008-02-08)
Featuring: Karen Beckman, Andy Gaedtke, Benjamin Kahan, Steven Meyer, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Paul Saint-Amour, Joshua Schuster, Pamela Thurschwell, Marina van Zuylen, and Liliane Weissberg, moderated by Detlef Mertins, Michael Leja, and Heather Love

Nazi Art in Museums? Canonization and Controversy (2008-02-15)
Featuring: Gregory Maertz


From word to action to architecture (2008-02-29)
Featuring: Vito Acconci


Love from Both Sides: Public Lecture by Bruce Fink (2008-03-29)
Featuring: Bruce Fink

City Girls, Flappers, and Feminist Film Theory (2008-03-31)
Featuring: Laura Mulvey


Blood Orgies: Hermann Nitsch in America (2008-04-10)
Featuring: Austrian Cultural Forum, New York


Beyond the Act: After the Biennale (2008-10-04)
Featuring: Emiliano Gandolfi, Teddy Cruz, William Menking, Aaron Levy


Amores: Paul Muldoon and Dan Gunn on Translation (2009-02-05)
Featuring: Paul Muldoon, Dan Gunn


Civic War and The Corruption of the Citizen: A Conversation (2009-05-11)
Featuring: Peter Alexander Meyers, Thomas J. Sugrue, Michael X. Delli Carpini, and Jean-Michel Rabaté in conversation


Love Letter | Steve Powers in conversation (2009-09-23)
Featuring: Presented in partnership with the City of Philadelphia, Mural Arts Program, 25th Anniversary


On Being Jewish by Sigmund Freud (2009-10-06)
Featuring: Betty Fuks, Eliza Slavet, Liliane Weissberg, and Patricia Gherovici in conversation

The Invention of Johannesburg (2009-10-22)
Featuring: Achille Mbembe, Sarah Nuttall in conversation


Episodes in Industrial Urbanism (2009-10-30)
Featuring: Nina Rappaport


New Media in the Museum (2009-11-05)
Featuring: Barbara London, in conversation


Wittgenstein's Voice: The Sound of the Unsystematic (2009-11-12)
Featuring: Marjorie Perloff, Tom Pepper, Rosmarie Waldrop, and Sissi Tax in conversation,
moderated by Jean-Michel Rabate



Capital crime and the art of the "Con" artist: The Madoff Case (2009-12-10)
Featuring: Marcel Drach, Manya Steinkoler

Begging, borrowing, stealing: on literature and philosophy as a way of life (2009-12-29)
Featuring: An evening of performances, conversations, and events

Rewriting History (2010-01-04)
Featuring: Peter Weibel


The Dancer's Two Bodies: Jalal Toufic in Conversation (2010-02-05)
Featuring: Jalal Toufic, Eduardo Cadava



Infinity Kisses - The Movie

Current Or Upcoming Projects In The Series

Searching Looks: Asian American Visual Cultures (2010-03-31)
Featuring: With a keynote address by Anne Anlin Cheng

Current Or Upcoming Projects In The Series

Poe after Smithson after Rainer (2010-03-22)
Featuring: Simon Leung, David Joselit, Yvonne Rainer

Infinity Kisses - The Movie (2010-03-26)
Featuring: Carolee Schneemann

Memories / Correspondences: Marcelo Brodsky in Conversation (2010-03-29)
Featuring: Marcelo Brodsky, Eduardo Cadava

Architecture on Display: On the History of the Venice Biennale of Architecture (2010-04-12)
Featuring: Aaron Betsky, William Menking, and Aaron Levy in conversation






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