About this Event
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Continuing our transnational, multi-site series of conversations about the role of oil in the visual arts, Austrian artist and cultural worker Ernst Logar will speak in person at Columbia University about his ongoing research practice and his recent work, Reflecting Oil. Ernst Logar will be in conversation with SOF/Heyman co-director and Petroleum team member Jennifer Wenzel.
Reflections on crude oil in petroleum sciences and the humanities usually take place without direct physical experience of the substance. The interdisciplinary Reflecting Oil project is a collection of art-based research that includes practical action and holistic observation of the raw material in the context of petroculture. This research approach focuses on sensory perceptions and aesthetic and symbolic interpretations and provides insights at the levels of multisensory and practical knowledge. Additional information about Reflecting Oil can be found at www.reflectingoil.info.
This event will be live-streamed to the other partners in the Petroleum project, which is supported by a TIER grant from Columbia Alliance: Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne University, CCA Lagos, and Tecnologico de Monterrey.
For previous events in the Petroleum series, see here and here.
For in-person attendees, a brown-bag lunch will be available.
About the Speaker
(born in Austria) is an artist and cultural worker based in Vienna. He is active in the fields of photography, film, video, sound, sculpture, and installation. In addition to international exhibition activities and interdisciplinary collaborations with various experts and institutions, Logar realizes projects in public space and site-specific works that tackle prevailing power relations as well as contemporary historical, sociocultural, ecological, and socio-political phenomena.
His works have been presented in the Austrian Parliament, at the scenes of Nazi crimes, and in other locations relevant to his artistic engagement. Logar is active in local cultural politics and is currently a research assistant and lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Please email [email protected] to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs. This event will be recorded. By being present, you consent to the SOF/Heyman using such video for promotional purposes.
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Heyman Center for the Humanities, East Campus Residence Hall, New York, United States
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