un Projects and MUMA presents…
US-based cultural theorist Catherine Liu, Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, for a lecture on the rise of trauma culture and its historical transition from private suffering into public life. Liu examines how our culture morphed into one that privileges confession as a key mode of communication, investigating the role of digital media, art and the artist in this shift.
The lecture will be accompanied by a short reading by art historian and critic Tara Heffernan, guest editor of incoming un Magazine 18.1 The Badaud, and conclude with Liu in a discussion moderated by Stephanie Berlangieri, Curator - Research, Monash University Museum of Art.
Tuesday 20 August 5:30-7pm CY space @collingwood_yards
This event is presented by Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA and un Projects. Catherine Liu’s visit to Australia is supported by Griffith University Art Museum and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
