Address
319 North 11th Street, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Hours
By Appointment
Saturday + Sunday 12:00-5:00pm
RETHINKING THE POLITICS OF ART: The Machete Group at Slought
Saturday 19 March, 8:00 – 10:00pm
Slought Foundation
4017 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
In an era in which many have declared the failure of the avant-garde and neo-avant-garde attempts to link art and politics, the Machete Group proposes to revisit this […]
Saturday, 19 February, 8:00 – 10:00pm
In the 1980s, Hans Belting and Arthur Danto concurrently proclaimed, unbeknownst to one another, the end of art and the termination of art history. Years later, Danto would suggest that this was no coincidence because they had simultaneously stumbled upon a fundamental historical truth that demarcated the […]
Saturday 18 December, 8:00 – 10:00pm
In the last meeting of the Machete group, we considered the theme of negation from various theoretical perspectives, and, further, how those themes had impacted contemporary artistic production. Building on Debord’s notion of detournement in his chapter “On Negation,” we now turn to the theme of appropriation. […]
Saturday, 23 October, 8:00 – 10:00pm
To inaugurate the Machete Group’s new series, Thinking the Present, Part 2: Figures of Critique, we shall consider the contemporary relevance of negation within the field of cultural production. The idea of negation remains a source of inspiration for artistic practices that aspire to critique. Against what […]
Friday, 30 July, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
At the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania
118 South 36th Street Philadelphia, PA
This Machete group meeting will be held at ICA as a part of Summer Studio with Anthony Campuzano.
In an era in which the critical condemnation of consumer […]
Thursday, 22 July, 2010 9pm
LIKE THAT WOULD EVER HAPPEN #2:
A Film Series Presented by Hiding Place and Marginal Utility
GERTRUDE VS. MABUSE
AMJ Crawford and Danny Snelson (ex libris)
playing in Gertrude Stein Video Organ vs. The Dark Cloud of Dr. Mabuse
Friday,21 May, 8:00 – 10:00 PM
As with our previous treatment of post-modernism, in the following session we shall approach the notion of the neo-avant-garde not merely as a historical designation or a particular theoretical fashion, but as an attitude and orientation towards the present that inspires artistic practices today, practices that position […]
LIKE THAT WOULD EVER HAPPEN #1:
A Film Series Presented by Hiding Place and Marginal Utility
Please join Hiding Place and Marginal Utility on Friday May 14th for a night of film and music, A Constant Score, organized by Jonathan Thomas. The event will begin […]
Saturday, 1 May, 8:00 – 10:00pm
DISCUSSION
The notion of postmodernism gained prominence in the 1970s and 1980s as an attempt to historically delimit a new set of artistic practices that seemed out of joint with modernism's chiefly formal concerns. However, it remains unclear to what extent postmodernism names a break with […]
Saturday,
March 20 , 8:00 – 10:00pm
At Marginal Utility's new location: 319 North 11th Street, 2nd Floor
DISCUSSION
Extending the Machete Groups interest in the contested legacy of modernism, this meeting shall focus on the dispute between Theodore Adorno and Peter Bürger concerning the critical significance of the historical avant-garde […]