Thrumming With Knowledge
November 20, 2024
5:30 – 7:00pm
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Research, as we experience it today in both institutional and culturally active contexts, has shifted away from stable bodies of knowledge that can be simply excavated, as well as from recognised subjects whose validity is universally accepted.
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Professor Irit Rogoff will discuss the concept of ‘thrumming with knowledge’ as a mode of knowledge production that is both epistemic and embodied. Central to Rogoff’s recent work, titled ‘Becoming Research,’ is the understanding that research, once seen as preparatory, is now the main event and increasingly the very subject of various practices.
Following her talk, Rogoff will join artist Ofri Cnaani to discuss her work in The CONTACTLESS CONDITION within the framework of practice-driven research.
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Irit Rogoff is a writer, educator, curator and organiser. She is a Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London, a department she founded in 2002. Rogoff works at the meeting ground between contemporary practices, politics and philosophy. Her current work is on new practices of knowledge production and their impact on modes of research, under the title of “Becoming Research” (forthcoming). Irit Rogoff is one of the initiators of the transdisciplinary field of Visual Culture and the founder of the department at Goldsmiths. Her initiatives to establish this new field are led by a belief that we must work beyond bodies of inherited disciplinary knowledge and find motivation for knowledge production in the current conditions we are living out.
Ofri Cnaani is an artist and researcher who works across performance and media. She is a visiting scholar at the Institute of Visual Culture, TU Wien, Austria and a research fellow at the internationally Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam. Until recently Cnaani was an associate lecturer at the Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work has appeared at Tate Britain, UK; Venice Architecture Biennale; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; PS1/MoMA, NYC; Inhotim Institute, Brazil; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Chile; Israel Museum; Tel-Aviv Museum of Art; Amos Rex Museum, Helsinki; Kiasma Museum, Helsinki; BMW Guggenheim Lab, NYC; The Fisher Museum of Art, L.A.; Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums, Italy; Moscow Biennial; The Kitchen, NYC; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, among others. Since 2021, Cnaani co-organises Choreographic Devices, a three-days choreographic symposium at ICA, London.
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Our events are always free and open to all; there is no need to book for this evening of discussion.