Tuesday Talks: Gardens Beyond Eden: Bio-aesthetics, Eco-Futurism, and Dystopia at dOCUMENTA (13)

Internationally renowned art historian and critic, T.J. Demos unpacked dOCUMENTA (13)'s relation to conflicts in political ecology.

Including a consideration of Donna Harraway’s positive take on GMOs and Vandana Shiva’s environmental activism, Demos closely looked at numerous artistic inclusions, such as And And And’s organic anti-capitalist kiosks, and The Otolith Group’s video The Radiant.

18 Jun, 7 - 9pm
The White Building
Unit 7 Queen's Yard, White Post Lane, E9 5EN

T.J. Demos teaches in the Department of Art History, University College London, and is the author of the two forthcoming books: The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary During Global Crisis(Duke University Press); and Return to the Postcolony: Spectres of Colonialism in Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press).