Winter Talks: Larne Abse Gogarty

Join us for a new season of Winter Talks, our lecture series with distinguished speakers pushing forward critical discourse. These evenings invite the public into in-person conversations on cultural issues that are urgent for artists, scholars, and cultural workers. Invited speakers share material in development that bridges art, culture, technology, and economics. This event is free with RSVP.

Renowned art historian Larne Abse Gogarty will deliver the season’s first lecture. Dr. Abse Gogarty is the author of two books including What We Do is Secret: Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy (Sternberg Press, 2023) and Usable Pasts: Social Practice and State Formation in American Art (Brill 2022). She is currently Associate Professor and Head of History and Theory of Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Her writing has appeared in Art Monthly, New Socialist, Tate Papers, Third Text, and Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte. Currently, she is working on a new project about recent sculpture and commodity culture through the lens of salvage, scavenging, and sabotage, and has also been co-editing Marina Vishmidt’s forthcoming Infrastructural Critique: Contemporary Art between Reproduction and Abolition.

The presentation runs approximately 45 minutes, followed by a Q&A session.