Art History with BenefitsThe Bruce High Quality Foundation
| Nov ’09 |
| 5 |
| 6:00 pm |
This fall The Bruce High Quality Foundation founded BHQFU, a free, unaccredited “university” dedicated to the creation of new histories of art. These histories, which take an omnivorous approach to research, combine satire and polemics, the learned and the base, to “resurrect art history from the bowels of despair.” These histories form the pedagogy and production of BHQFU, taking the form of videos, lectures, and texts distributed freely from the group’s headquarters and website. One of the first of such histories to be made public is “Art History with Benefits.”
“Art History with Benefits” is a half-hour presentation examining the romance, figuratively and literally, between cultural funding and sex. Drawn from such diverse sources as environmental psychologist Paco Underhill’s “Why We Buy,” George Buchner’s “Danton’s Death,” and congressional records concerning the NEA debates of the late 80s, “Art History with Benefits” relentlessly upturns expected notions of how and why culture happens.
Presented by X Initiative.
Performances at 6 and 8pm
FREE
