Encounter: Casting a net between detail and survey with Josh Schwebel

Date: Wednesday, 27 November

Time: 19:00-21:00

In this encounter, Joshua Schwebel will describe recent artworks, focusing on long-form projects that have addressed contemporary art’s complicity with neoliberal and imperial capitalism. Less concerned with making objects, Schwebel is interested in art’s infrastructures and impacts, which demonstrate art’s compliance with capitalist values. Schwebel’s work takes multiple forms, including installations, redistributive transactions, performative public interventions, publications, and archival processes. Through his presentation, Schwebel invites us to think about what exactly we in the arts community are doing, whose interests we are serving, and in which ways art might be instrumentalized to benefit those whose political aims differ from our own.

BIO
Josh’s artistic practice stems from a deep need to understand the world through applied questions, coupled with an uninhibited allergy to authority. He does exhibit and publish his work internationally and within Canada with a variety of non-commercial structures, but these engagements are not the benchmarks of his practice. He sustains his relationship with art through a concern for the world as it could be, and in conversation with the work of others who need to engage with their world in similar ways.