Lawrence Lek Geomancer, 2017 [Still] HD video, stereo sound duration: 48 min 15 sec © Lawrence Lek. Courtesy the Artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London
Suhail Malik in conversation with Lawrence Lek, moderated by Orit Gat
This was a presentation by theorist Suhail Malik (Goldsmiths, University of London) building on Lawrence Lek’s critical formulation of ‘Sinofuturism’, and the ‘Farsight’ corporation. The latter is a recurring character in Lek’s work and a speculative AI art entity whose transformation plots speculative futures from our technological and cultural present. Malik situated key themes in Lek’s art in relation to changing notions of modernity wrought by China’s recent development, corporate avantgardism, and the prospect of AI’s synthetic psyche. Malik’s research examines postglobal planetarity and legacies of modernity in the aftermath of neoliberalism. His presentation was followed by an in-conversation with the artist moderated by writer and art critic Orit Gat.
BIOGRAPHIES:
Suhail Malik is Director of the MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, London, where he holds a Readership in Critical Studies. He has written widely on contemporary art and philosophy, and is co-editor of Realism Materialism Art (Sternberg, 2015) and Genealogies of Speculation (Bloomsbury, 2016).
Orit Gat is a British writer and art critic living in London, whose work on contemporary art, books, digital culture and football has appeared in numerous magazines, including The White Review, frieze, e-flux journal and e-flux criticism, ArtReview, Jacobin and many others. She teaches on the MA in writing programme at the Royal College of Art.
This was a presentation by theorist Suhail Malik (Goldsmiths, University of London) building on Lawrence Lek’s critical formulation of ‘Sinofuturism’, and the ‘Farsight’ corporation. The latter is a recurring character in Lek’s work and a speculative AI art entity whose transformation plots speculative futures from our technological and cultural present. Malik situated key themes in Lek’s art in relation to changing notions of modernity wrought by China’s recent development, corporate avantgardism, and the prospect of AI’s synthetic psyche. Malik’s research examines postglobal planetarity and legacies of modernity in the aftermath of neoliberalism. His presentation was followed by an in-conversation with the artist moderated by writer and art critic Orit Gat.
BIOGRAPHIES:
Suhail Malik is Director of the MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, London, where he holds a Readership in Critical Studies. He has written widely on contemporary art and philosophy, and is co-editor of Realism Materialism Art (Sternberg, 2015) and Genealogies of Speculation (Bloomsbury, 2016).
Orit Gat is a British writer and art critic living in London, whose work on contemporary art, books, digital culture and football has appeared in numerous magazines, including The White Review, frieze, e-flux journal and e-flux criticism, ArtReview, Jacobin and many others. She teaches on the MA in writing programme at the Royal College of Art.
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