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Al Hassan Elwan: Gesamtkunstvibe



Lecture

12/06 @ 7pm 
SKD Prosvjeta
Preradovićeva 21-23, Zagreb

The lecture is part of the CROSS-LOOKING program.

 
This talk traces the unorthodox afterlife of Wagner's "total work of art", from Boris Groys's critique of social realism to the algorithmic present, and argues that we've arrived at a form of aesthetic totality more complete than anything the twentieth century managed or imagined. From Wagner's opera house to The Apprentice to the phone's Stage 5 Simulacra.


Al Hassan Elwan is the instigator and founder of POSTPOSTPOST™, a brand/movement that produces publications, films and online cultural commentary. POSTPOSTPOST: Reflections on a New Avant-garde, the inaugural publication has been featured in various publications such as Dazed, FlashArt, Frieze Seoul, Arte Tracks, Novembre, DAMN magazine, among others. Their solo writing has been published in RealReview, Dazed, STPI, Ibraaz, and DoNotResearch, and they have lectured part-time at MSCHF. They’ve been invited to speak at Global Art Forum, UAL, STPI, Organ Vida, Hothouse & Ibraaz among others. They also wrote and directed POSTPOSTPOST’s launch film, produced by Liam Young and published on DIS.