Creating and Dispersing Universes Lecture

As part of the Home Workspace Program 2013-14 opening week, Ashkal Alwan is pleased to invite you to Jalal Toufic’s keynote lecture, the first in a series of six lectures to be presented throughout the year.

This event is part of the opening chapter for Home Workspace Program 2013-14, led by resident professors Jalal Toufic and Anton Vidokle.

About the lecture:
“The percentage of successful universes, ones that last for more than ‘two days,’ is no greater in the physical universe than in fiction and art; a plethora of the baby universes that appear in the physical universe do not have enough consistency, and so disappear in less than ‘two days.’ What can resist, and resists the expansion of globalization is not the local of every country, but the universal of artistic works, which present each a universe that is not part of the expanding universe in which humans materially live but borders it.”