
Join the Barnett Center for a conversation with Dr. Richard Fletcher, Associate Professor in Ohio State's Department of Classics, for his talk Diabolic Dispersion, or, How to Get Ahead in the Arts.
Artist Seth Price's essay Dispersion (2002-) explores the implications for aligning artistic production with established forms and systems of distribution (e.g. cheap paperbacks, free digital files, open-source operating systems, the Internet, publishing and exhibitions). A key component of Price's argument (and practice) is how such distributed media also coopts a wide span of practices (e.g. music, fashion, poetry, filmmaking, criticism) which 'resist easy assimilation into a market-driven art system.' Recounting some of the activities of the blog and platform Minus Plato inspired by Price's essay and work, Professor Fletcher will discuss the potential for a dispersed model of art education and enterprise at the research university. What would an integrated arts project look like from the perspective of dispersion? Could a cunning deployment of distributed media break down established disciplinary boundaries and the divide between the arts and other disciplines?
This event is part of the Barnett Center's 2017-2018 Speaker Series, Home Grown Pros: 20 years of reflections from AAEP connections.