April 24, 2014, 6–11 p.m. (German)
DAS FEINE UND DAS FEINE
Von Nüssen lernen. Adriaen Coorte und die Kunst des Kleinen
Lecture, 6 p.m.

The lecture focuses on a celebration of the dignity of the small and inconspicuous in art. Revolving around a painting of two nuts by the Dutch still-life artist Adriaen Coorte (ca. 1665–ca. 1707), it offers descriptions and comparative analyses of pictures and reflections on the subject and its history to promote an interpretation that investigates the particular visibility of small things in as concrete and unsentimental terms as possible. A central point of interest is a peculiar form of perceptive affection that seems to be essential also to the study of Ulrike Grossarth’s oeuvre.

Leidenschaft und Ostinato. Delirien, Glücksmomente, Trauer, Liebeswahnsinn, Tränen, Jubel, 
Loops in neuen Interpretationen
A DJ night with baroque music, 7–11 p.m.

Michael Glasmeier, Art historian, Curator

After the lecture, a DJ set will put those affects front and center that have the power to touch us with their immediacy despite their rhetorical and artificial quality, a specialty of the baroque. It also explores the role of rhythm, repetition, variation, and the loop, the defining features of this music between lamentation and ecstatic dance.

Michael Glasmeier teaches art studies at the University of the Arts Bremen. He has curated exhibitions on art and comedy (2009), the fiftieth anniversary of documenta in Kassel (2005), tableaux vivants (with Sabine Folie, 2002), the baroque and contemporary art (with Sabine Folie, 2001), Samuel Beckett and Bruce Nauman (2000), crime and art (1999), artist’s books (1994), artist’s vinyl records (with Ursula Block, 1989), visual poetry (1987), and others. He is also a widely published art historian, essayist, and literary writer; publications include Künstler als Wissenschaftler, Kunsthistoriker und Schriftsteller (2012), Anarchie des Lachens (ed., 2011), Albernheit (with Lisa Steib, 2011), Das Ganze in Bewegung: Essays zu einer Kunstgeschichte des Gegenwärtigen (2009), Die skelettierten Stadtmusikanten und Das Glück bei den Kühen: Märchenmotive in der zeitgenössischen Kunst (2009), Künstler in der Lehre: Texte von Ad Reinhardt bis Ulrike Grossarth (ed., with Elke Bippus, 2009). He lives in Bremen and Berlin.