The Old Brand New: New Centre

THE OLD BRAND NEW

A monthly lecture series in the English language in Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam revolving around the concept ‘new’ in the arts.

14 April: NEW CENTRE

With R. Radhakrishnan, André Lepecki and Trinh T. Minh-ha
For over four centuries the dominance of Western philosophy and culture has been questioned and criticized by thinkers of every gender and denomination. Persistent impulses from feminist and postcolonial theory have since discredited patriarchal and Eurocentric ways of looking at the world. The omnipresence of the notion of globalization, and the shift of the economic power centre to the BRIC-axis, have led to the impression that we live in a world in which borders and ‘cultural gaps’ no longer matter. The idea that the tensions between centre and periphery – in both a geographical, a socio-political and cultural sense –, no longer play a significant role, has gained ground. To what extent has the field of tension between ‘us’ and the ’other’ actually been abolished in the domain of the arts?

Tickets and reservations: available at Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, www.ssba.nl
More information: www.theoldbrandnew.nl

NEXT EDITIONS:

New Idealism 14 mei:
The Otolith Group: Kodwo Eshun & Anjalika Sagar and Marianne van Kerkhoven
New Beauty 22 juni:
Marina Warner and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
What is New? 15 september:
Dick Hebdige and Keith Sawyer