THE ARCHIVE AS ... A LISTENING SPACE
Talk by Helena Vilalta
Thursday, June 22
7pm


In her talk, the art historian Helena Vilalta will consider the role of listening in exhibitions of the early 1990s held at Kunstverein München under director Helmut Draxler and curator Hedwig Saxenhuber. Through a discussion of the writings of Tina Campt and Bonnie Honig, as well as her own research in the archives of artists Adrian Piper and Howardena Pindell, she will expand on the potential of listening as a feminist methodology, and ask how it can make practices of refusal more legible.

Helena Vilalta is co-leader of the MRes Art: Exhibition Studies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. She has recently completed a PhD in Art History at University College London on the intersection of conceptual art and feminism in the 1970s. She is a former editor of Afterall journal, and her writings have also appeared in Oxford Art Journal, Texte zur Kunst, CAA Reviews, and Moving Image Review & Art Journal.