Archaeology of the Final Decade:
System Design in Research & Exhibition-Making

Instructor: Vali Mahlouji Date & Time: July 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th. 09:00-11:30 ET.

DESCRIPTION: The ideas discussed across four Sessions of this Seminar cover the theoretical, methodological, and formal frameworks for a new form of exhibition-making while considering the ethics and politics of condemned, obscured, and precarious art histories. It grapples with issues pertaining to power, radical democracy, conflict, activism, art, and culture in peril. We will discuss models for dismantling conventional histories and concrete strategies for confronting dominant forms of thought, representation, practice, and interpretation. Based on the Instructor’s previous series of exhibitions under the rubric of “Archaeology of the Final Decade,” the models discussed in this Seminar are forensic investigations, constructive system designs, and performative counteractions to escape, bypass or refute pre-existing knowledge systems and their manifestation in art culture and exhibition making.

Session 1: The Politics of Erasure: the theoretical layout of archaeological curation.
Session 2: Interconnectedness and System-Making: Methodological approach of the practice.
Session 3: Memory, Archive, and Form: Reanimating archives as the primary form of the practice.
Session 4: Conclusion, Student Presentations.

IMAGE: Vali Mahlouji, Archaeology of the Final Decade, Garage Museum, 2019

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