Luis Camnitzer

"When we talk about art we generally lump a great many things together to the point that we end up not knowing exactly what we are talking about. If I would ask anybody, the response would be that there is art making and art appreciation. The latter, in turn, is roughly subdivided into collecting and marketing. The main division organizes the population into producers and consumers. Both groups are very small if measured by world population standards, and belong to the educated middleclass. The makers are actually very few, and those appreciated among them even fewer. I would like to add another category pertaining art, which is art thinking. This one I believe is the most important one since everybody should share it. Art thinking actually is not a discipline, but a meta-discipline and it should inform pretty much anything we do because it’s where cognition takes place." (Luis Camnitzer)

On Tuesday, 28 July, at 8 p.m. Luis Camnitzer will give a lecture within our lecture and discussion series "The production of meaning" in the Künstlerhaus.

See here a short clip of Camnitzer talking about "art thinking" in the Guggenheim, New York.