As
part of the focus Gravity – Solving, Falling and Floating, the Department of Cultural Studies and the Department of
Art Theory are jointly hosting a guest lecture by Marcello Farabegoli.
Farabegoli, born in Cesena, Italy, in
1973, grew up in Bolzano. He studied music and philosophy in Italy and graduated with a degree in physics from the University
of Vienna. He has worked for various environmental organisations and as a research assistant at the University of Potsdam
and the Austrian Institute of Technology. Since 2005, he has been working primarily in the field of art: He ran a gallery
for contemporary Japanese art in Berlin, worked in the "Old Masters" department at the Dorotheum auction house and has been
working as a curator since 2012 – in particular for or in collaboration with institutions such as the Kunsthalle Wien, the
MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, the Museo Novecento in Florence (Museum of the 20th Century Florence), the MuseumsQuartier
Wien, the Palais Metternich (Italian Embassy) in Vienna and the Vienna Actionism Museum. He is also active in university research
on art and quantum physics, gives guest lectures and leads workshops.
The interdisciplinary
focus Focus on Gravity – Solving, Falling and Floating is a format by Florian Bettel, Liddy Scheffknecht and Anna Spohn. Together
with guest speakers, we discuss the historicity and present-day relevance of the concept of gravity in art, technology and
science. Beyond a naïve re-actualisation of ‘force’ as a conceptual foundation for artistic practice, artistic-scientific
research or cultural and art-scientific conceptualisation, we critically and transdisciplinarily question the forms, techniques,
practices, metaphorical dynamics and discursive frameworks of gravity in art, technology and science.
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information in the Angewandte Showroom
