Awkward for whom?
Timotheus Vermeulen
Lecture (Online)
The lecture will be in English.
As one of the co-founders of the term metamodernism, Timotheus Vermeulen is an expert in the field of irony and its various forms of play in the present, especially with regard to media aesthetics. In his analysis of current trends and tendencies, he points out developments in our uncertain and sometimes overwhelming times and makes us aware of their anchoring in our culture and our media.
As a cultural theorist, he is particularly important for the exhibition Ridiculously Yours! Art, Awkwardness, and Enthusiasm for his perspective on the central concept of enthusiastic embarrassment, which he has already described in his catalog text: “Who does what to whom: the politics of enthusiastic embarrassment.”
His text, which was published in the exhibition catalog of Ridiculously Yours!, will serve as a starting point for further discussion. In the course of the lecture, he will take some new directions and also discuss the desperate enthusiastic sincerity of speeches from Silicon Valley.
Meeting-ID: 884 2554 9836
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Timotheus Vermeulen
Vermeulen is Professor in Media, Culture, and Society at the University of Oslo, Norway, and visiting scholar in Art History at Harvard University. Vermeulen studies changing trends and sentiments in contemporary culture, especially screen media. He co-founded the research platform Notes on Metamodernism and is a frequently invited public speaker and commentator. His research has been translated into over ten languages, inspired exhibitions and symposia in leading museums and institutions around the world, and is cited widely, incl. discussions in the New York Times, BBC, Times Literary Supplement, Adbusters, Scenario, Art News, and TANK. His publications include Refocus: The Films of Richard Linklater (2022), together with Kim Wilkins, Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect and Depth after Postmodernism (2017), edited with Robin van den Akker and Alison Gibbons, Anmerkungen zur Metamoderne (2015), Scenes from the Suburbs (2014) and New Suburban Stories (2013), edited with Martin Dines.