Calendar Event
December 16, 2010, 12:00 am to 11:59 am
Perpetual Peace Project
Please join us Thursday December 16th 5:30-8:30pm, at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, for three casual conversations with Gregg Lambert, Eduardo Cadava and Emily Apter:
5:30pm: Gregg Lambert, Syracuse University, on "The Conspiracy of Peace"
6:30pm: Eduardo Cadava, Princeton University, on "War is Peace" and "Peace Commodity"
7:30pm: Emily Apter, New York University, on "The word 'peace' is an Untranslatable"
Perpetual Peace Project at the New Museum Part of the The Last Newspaper, a discursive exhibition of ideas that gathers various agencies and working groups together. New Museum of Contemporary Art 235 Bowery, New York October 6, 2010 to January 9, 2011 About the Exhibition Although peace is a topic that has long interested artists, the Perpetual Peace Project does not seek to showcase artists or artworks. Rather, it seeks to frame the discourse about how peace is negotiated and understood by encouraging discursive moments within the space of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Through seemingly minimal gestures, including media stations and a variety of social situations, we reclaim the space of the museum for dialogue, interaction, and reflection about our project and the issues it raises. Media stations are scattered throughout the building in ancillary spaces including the lobby, stairwells, and hallways. Viewers are invited to view selections from the Perpetual Peace Project film initiative, which features practitioners, philosophers, and the public in conversation about contemporary prospects for reducing geopolitical conflict. These media stations culminate in a shared space for public programming within the galleries, which is simultaneously shared with the other artists and organizations featured in The Last Newspaper. A variety of seating arrangements will occur within this space over the course of the exhibition, ranging from the formal to the informal. The project also includes an intimate reading room in the small stairwell gallery. Providing a semi-private retreat from the public nature of the rest of the exhibition, this room invites visitors to further engage with Immanuel Kant's foundational essay Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (1795), newly republished and available here. It allows a respite for the public from the more specialized discourse contained within the media stations throughout the museum. Reprinted in the french fold tradition of Kant's time, our publication invites the reader's active participation to access the text concealed within. Blank pages interspersed throughout the book offer a space for contemplation and individual contribution. In addition, we have invited students from Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, Pakistan--whose voices are otherwise excluded or invisible--to share their thoughts. This softly amplified audio recording will add another layer of voices to the subject of peace, and is emblematic of the variety of cultural exchanges that the Perpetual Peace Project has undertaken across a variety of spaces both private and public.
Listen to these and other talks at the New Museum in Fall 2010
Major Initiatives & Events 2010
Perpetual Peace Project at the New Museum, New York, November 2010-January 2011.
Perpetual Peace Talks at the New Museum, New York, October-December 2010
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'The maxims of the philosophers regarding the conditions of the possibility of a public peace, shall be taken into consideration by the States that are armed for war.' |
This project is a partnership between the European Union National Institutes of Culture (EUNIC), the International Peace Institute (IPI), the United Nations University, Slought Foundation, and Syracuse University. It joins theorists and practitioners in revisiting 21st century prospects for international peace. The project finds its public form in symposia, exhibitions, lectures, as well as a feature film organized around Immanuel Kant's foundational essay "Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch" (1795), which itself takes the form of an international treaty exploring the possibility of permanent peace.
For More Information on the Perpetual Peace Project
Listen to U.N. Forum, November 16th 2010
