With a focus on the body, the talk seeks to underscore the physical, phenomenological relationship between people and things so fundamental to the experience of sculpture.
For 25 years, he was a reporter for The New York Times , more than half of that time writing about the art world. He is at work on a new novel set in the s in a mental hospital in the Sacramento Valley. Alice Rawsthorn is an award-winning design critic and the author of critically acclaimed books on design, including Hello World: Where Design Meets Life and, most recently, Design as an Attitude.
Alice is a co-founder, with Paola Antonelli, of the Design Emergency project to investigate design's response to the Covid crisis and its aftermath. An influential public speaker and social media commentator on design, Alice has participated in important global events including TED and the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Alice was awarded an OBE for services to design and the arts. Mika Rottenberg is an Argentina-born, New York-based artist devoted to a rigorous practice that combines film, architectural installation, and sculpture to explore ideas of labor and the production of value in our contemporary hyper-capitalist world.
Rottenberg was the recipient of the Kurt Schwitters Prize, which recognizes artists who have made a significant contribution to the field of contemporary art.
Jacolby Satterwhite is celebrated for a conceptual practice addressing crucial themes of labor, consumption, carnality and fantasy through immersive installation, virtual reality and digital media.
