The Aesthetics of Risk
From: 29th June 2020 6:00 pm
To: 29th June 2020 7:30 pm
Radar
Live streamed to the LU Arts Faceboohttps://www.facebook.com/loughborough.universityartsk page:Curator Francesca Cavallo and disasters researcher Ksenia Chmutina consider what it might mean to think about risk aesthetically.
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In making a claim about the future, ‘risk’ can play an important role in the organisation of the present. It pushes us (not) to do certain things, shaping the ways in which we relate to each other and the world around us. It is a not-quite truth and a not-quite fiction which has very real political effects.
In all of this, risk is of considerable interest or relevance for much contemporary artistic practice. Drawing on artistic works, curation, the urban environment, the politics of disasters and more, this wide-ranging conversation will explore the ways in which artists have approached, used and reformulated ‘risk’. It will ask whether risk produces its own aesthetics, but also whether the aesthetic might be mobilised to rethink risk.
It will also feature an introduction to the works being produced for Radar’s Risk Related project by Laura Purseglove, Radar Producer.
Francesca Cavallo is a researcher, curator and art critic. Her research focuses on pre-disaster scenarios, probable futures and the aesthetics of risk in art and visual culture. She just completed her PhD at the University of Kent where she has taught in the department of History and Philosophy of Art over the past three years. Previously she curated the exhibition Risk at Turner Contemporary, Margate, and worked as a researcher for Organising Disaster, a project at Goldsmiths, University of London. Francesca has curated programs and exhibitions in Italy, Portugal, Lebanon and Uruguay as well as in the UK and the US. Her writings have appeared in various edited collections and catalogues and she regularly contributes to Camera Austria International.
Ksenia Chmutina is Senior Lecturer in Sustainable and Resilient Urbanism at Loughborough University. Her research takes a critical approach to risk and disaster; and explores tensions of resilience and sustainability in the built environment. She is the co-author of Disaster Risk Reduction for the Built Environment and a co-host of the podcast Disasters Deconstructed. She is the lead academic partner for Risk Related.
