January 26 - February 3, 2024
From the Transart Foundation:
“The Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology is proud to present “Houston Hauntology” a series of revealing conversations about Houston’s hidden visual culture featuring noted local artists, architects, art historians and critics, curated by Valentin Diaconov.
Valentin Diaconov (b. 1980, Moscow) is an internationally recognized critic and curator. He is the critic in residence at the Core Program in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He writes on art for Glasstire.com, Burnaway.com, e flux Criticism, and other publications. As a curator, he worked at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, and independently. Among his projects are Sekretiki, a show about hidden knowledge and religious practices in Soviet underground art; The Fabric of Felicity, an exhibition of artists working with the notion of a uniform; Laughter in the Gallery, a show about Soviet anti-Modernist cartoons; and others.
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Specify which session | limited sitting | first come first serve.
Schedule:
January 26
6.00 pm. Stephen Fox (Rice U) on the legacy of Eugene Aubry.
7.00 pm. Cameron Amstrong on repressed architectures, in conversation with Stephen Fox
8.00 pm. Terrell James and Terry Suprean on summoning Virgil Grotfeldt.
January 27
6.00 pm. Lynn Randolph in conversation with Ilana Gershon (Rice U).
7.00 pm. Pete Gershon (The Orange Show) on Bert Long Jr.
8.00 pm. Angel Lartigue in conversation with Aisen Caro Chacin.
February 3
6.00 pm. Mary Ellen Carroll and Rebecca Matalon (CAMH) in conversation
7.00 pm. Jillian Conrad and Salle Vaughn in conversation.
8.00 pm. Susan Plum and Arielle Masson in conversation.
9.00 pm. Valentina Jäger on conversing with the dead.”
Lecture: January 26, 2024 | 6–9 pm
Lecture: January 27, 2024 | 6–9 pm
Lecture: February 3, 2024 | 6–10 pm
Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology
1412 W Alabama St
Houston, 77006 Texas
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