Crit Cross #14

Postpandemic Global(s) and Local(s): with Noit Banai

Volkskundemuseum Wien
Laudongasse 15-19
1080 Vienna

We are very happy to invite you to Crit Cross #14 with a very dear guest, Noit Banai, art historian and critic who specializes in modern and contemporary art in transcultural and transdisciplinary perspectives.

The conversation with Noit Banai will focus on questions of presentation and archiving of material and cultural practices in different forms as well as questions of the global and the local in pandemic and postpandemic times. Three texts written by Banai in the last years will be a basis of our conversation:

“Border as Form“ in Artforum about the Documenta in Athens and Kassel
“Undisciplining Art Criticism“ published by Paper Visual Art centered around the effects of the austerity measures in Greece and the state of criticism.
And celebrating the publication of the book Being a Border (2021) on 26th of September 2021, a co-publication by Paper Visual Art and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. This book was written following Noit Banai’s participation in the Art in the Contemporary World (ACW) / IMMA Visiting Critic-in-Residence programme in 2014.

The conversation will be facilitated by Klaus Speidel and take place in English in the garden of Volkskundmuseum, our partner for this event.

Noit Banai was Professor of Contemporary Art at Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts (2007-2014) and the University of Vienna (2014-2019) before joining Hong Kong Baptist University as Associate Professor of Art History and Theory in August 2021. Her monograph on Yves Klein appeared in 2014 (London: Reaktion) and she is completing a book titled Between Nation State and Border State: Modernism from Universal to Global Subject. She served as assistant editor for the journal RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics and is a regular contributor to Artforum International.

Crit Cross #14 is supported by the City of Vienna and Bildrecht.