8 November at 4:30PM / Lecture Hall 537 at Faculty of Art and Design UJEP

In this fourth part of his lecture series Marcus Neustetter explores the artist’s role to visualize and represent crisis in the creative act. Through examples of Sisyphean works of futility to aggravating audiences with outrageous statements, the artist risks all in an attempt to articulate the urgency of the site-specific condition. 

The seven-part lecture series draws on transdisciplinary and intersectoral practice undertaken over the last 25 years in a variety of contexts and communities. It reflects the artist’s experience of working in changing social and environmental conditions in which he moves as an artist between the studio, public and virtual environments, and in his collaborative practices as an art industry entrepreneur and community activist. This diversity of experience offers different perspectives that both highlight and challenge the approach of the artist, designer, architect and curator in contemporary life experience. Drawing on insights from past projects, contemporary practice and presenting the perspectives of collaborating artists, curators, scholars and philosophers, the lectures aim to raise critical questions about individual artistic practice, to situate artistic practice in relation to contemporary conditions and to motivate dialogue and collaboration.