Post-Fordisms and Culture by Brian Holmes, moderated by Yates McKee — Part of Living as Form :: June 30, 2011; 6:30 - 8:00 pm :: The Cooper Union - Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY.

Brian Holmes is an American Born (California) theorist, writer and translator living in Chicago, Illinois. He is a Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he teaches an intensive summer seminar. He has worked with the French Graphics collective Ne Pas Plier (Do Not Bend) and the French cartography collective Bureau d’Etudes.

Holmes holds a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of the book Hieroglyphs of the Future. He was the English editor of publications for Documenta X, Kassel, Germany, 1997. Holmes gives lectures widely in Europe and North & South America, is a frequent contributor to the international mailinglist Nettime, the art magazines Springerin (Austria) and Brumaria (Spain) and the interdisciplinary journal Multitudes (France).

In recent years, Holmes has been co-organizing a series of seminars with the New York City based reading group 16 Beaver Group under the title Continental Drift, working on the issues of geopolitics and geopoetics. He maintains a blog under the same name with the additional subtitle ‘the other side of neoliberal globalization’.

Post-Fordisms and Culture is the second in a three-part series of talks leading up to the opening of Living as Form, an unprecedented project that explores over 20 years of cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, and emphasize participation, dialogue, community engagement, and activism around social issues. Living as Form provides a historical look at these socially engaged alternative practices, and the role artists have played in reshaping our world. Presented by New York City-based public art presenter Creative Time, the project brings together 25 curators, document over 100 artists projects in a survey exhibition at the historic Essex Street Market building, create six new social based commissions throughout the Lower East Side, hold three public talks, and culminate with a book that addresses this complex field of cultural production.