Work Space. Tatiana Trouve’s Bureaucratic Imaginary

In co-operation with aktuelle kunst in graz – Galerientage / contemporary art in graz – gallery days
Entrance free

In her talk, the renown American scholar Pamela M. Lee will reveal the enigmatic mechanisms of Tatiana Trouvé's partly delirious and sometimes surreal microcosm of obsessions and phantasmas. Focusing on the artist’s „administrative mise-en-scène“, Lee analyses Trouvé’s take on the routinization of everyday work, claiming that it perpetually dreams itself elsewhere. The art of the 1960s (and especially the one related to the „critique of institutions“) as well as the artist‘s personal biography provide a context for Pamela M. Lee’s investigations. (in English)

Pamela M. Lee is Professor of Art History at Stanford University, California,  and author of the books Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s (2004) and Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark (2000).