Talks
Edgar Schmitz
Talk: Choreographic and Free Indirect Style
Friday, 12 October, 6 pm
ZHdK, Room 6.K04
https://vimeo.com/294998565
CHOREOGRAPHIC was initiated by Edgar Schmitz in 2016 as a way of collaborating with invited guests from the fields of choreography and (post-)dance on one-off productions at the intersection of artistic, curatorial and discursive labour. As part of a broader investigation into how competency plays out in a post-skill environment, the series stages choreographic modes, language games and production formats in close and conflictual dialogue with neoliberal forms of governance and subsumption, and animates their invariably compromised critical affordances.
In relation to this bigger body of work, Schmitz will present on his role as Shadow Artist for netwerk Centre for Contemporary Art, Aalst (B) and a set of contracts in Free Indirect Style developed in dialogue with Tyler Coburn.
Edgar Schmitz (D, 1968) is an artist who produces escapist backdrops from film, sculpture, animation and writing. His work is concerned with developing modes of withdrawal from the given terms of the present, and he often collaborates with
His work was part of A.C.A.D.E.M.Y (
Schmitz is Head of Critical Studies in Art at Goldsmiths, was Associate Researcher 2017 at Netwerk Aalst (B), and is their Shadow Artist for 2017-19.