three Duchamp art talks

MARCEL DUCHAMP - CHANGING ART THROUGH A CONSUMER AND CONTEXT PERSPECTIVE

Art Talk with Jan Åman, writer, curator and creative director A HOUSE

Date: 11 October 2017

Time: 12-13

Place:  Room Torsten, Handelshögskolan Sveavägen 65.

Welcome to a lunch lecture at SSE with Jan Åman about Marcel Duchamp, and how he radically changed the idea of art by focusing on consumers/spectators and the wider context. Jan Åman is currently heading A HOUSE, an artist-business space in central Stockholm. He previously founded the influential Stockholm art space Färgfabriken and is holding a central position in international and Swedish art life by introducing creative crossovers between art, fashion, design and community actions. 

THE THIRD GLASS; A VIRTUAL REALITY HOMMAGE TO MARCEL DUCHAMP

VR installation by Damjan Jovanovic presented in conversation with Daniel Birnbaum, director Moderna Museet

Date: 4 October
Time: Art Talk 12-13, VR installation on view 13-15d
Place: Room Torsten, Handelshögskolan, Sveavägen 65

Welcome to Stockholm School of Economics Art Initiative currently hosting one of Modern Art’s most influential figures – Marcel Duchamp.

On the 4 October, architect Damjan Jovanovic will exhibit his new interactive work The Third Glass (2017) - a Virtual Reality experience, based on the The Large Glass the work of Marcel Duchamp exhibited at Moderna Museet. During the whole month of October, the film Anemic Cinema (1926) by Marcel Duchamp will be screened in the SSE Atrium as the second in a series of art film screenings in our year-long collaboration with Moderna Museet.

You are cordially invited by Damjan Jovanovic to put on the VR headset and move freely in between digital versions of the objects of Duchamp’s glass painting. The project has been produced by the Städelschule Architecture Class (SAC) for Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). Its first staging was at the Städelschule Rundgang 2017, the art academy’s annual student exhibition. 

DUCHAMP AS AURA ENTREPRENEUR

Ivar Björkman will give an Art Talk on the role of Marcel Duchamp to design marketing Sweden

Date: 25 October
Time: 12-13
Place: To be announced

During our screening of Marcel Duchamp´s film in the Atrium we have invited Ivar Björkman, head of OpenLab Stockholm, for an Art Talk on Marcel Duchamp as an entrepreneur. Dr Björkman has been the president of the Royal College of Arts and Craft (Konstfack) in Stockholm and done research on the business of new Swedish design.