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--- CANCELLED --- MC: Sascha Bru: The Invention of Interchronicity: Temporal Assemblage in the Classic Avant-Gardes --- CANCELLED ---

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Feb 11, 2020 from 02:00 to 04:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)

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Phil I, GCSC, MFR

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Visual art and literature in the past decades have often been said to be marked by a strong interest in issues of temporality and historicity. Contemporary aesthetic production, indeed, has been characterised by a great variety of scholars and critics as displaying “archival fever”, a “temporal turn” and a “historical turn”. The “contemporary”, as the most recent period in the arts has come to be known, is thereby above all said to be defined by the development of an alternative aesthetics of time and history. In this class I wish to suggest that the first traces of this nowadays rather articulate interest in time and history can be located in the work of the so-called classic or historical avant-gardes, that is, in the collection of movements including Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism and Constructivism. Discussing a series of works belonging to different art forms, I intend to demonstrate that these avant-gardes can be credited with the invention of “interchronocity”, that is, with a reflected promotion of art’s capacity to condition an audience to recalibrate the relations between past, present and future.

 

// Prof. Dr. Sascha Bru

 

Sascha Bru is head of the Theory and Cultural Studies Department and director of the MDRN research lab (www.mdrn.be) at the University of Leuven, where he among others supervises the research programme *Literary Knowledge, 1890-1950: European Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe*. Bru
has produced over a dozen books devoted to a variety of aspects of the European avant-gardes and modernisms, including *The European Avant-Gardes, 1905-1935. A Portable Guide* (2018), *Democracy, Law and the Modernist Avant-Gardes. Writing in the State of Exception* (2009), and the co-edited volumes *Futurism: A Microhistory* (2017) and *The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Europe, 1880-1940* (2016).

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