Bill Brown | Re-Assemblage: Urban Geography and American Art History
Channel: The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
Date: 2022-06-09

In the Things in Theory conversation series, 3CT fellow Shannon Lee Dawdy engages scholars from different disciplines who work at the intersection of material culture studies and contemporary theory. What role do objects, architecture, and landscapes play in social and political life? What happens when we take things seriously?

Here, Dawdy speaks with 3CT fellow Bill Brown. How does the artistic practice of assemblage intersect with, or interrupt, assemblage theory as it has been deployed within the social sciences? To address that question, their conversation will focus on the so-called Watts Riots of 1965, the assemblage art made from the wreckage that remained, and the artistic and pedagogical practices of Noah Purifoy.

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Recorded February 11, 2022. All rights to the words and ideas expressed in this video are retained exclusively by their authors. If you would like to reuse a segment of this video, please contact the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory to request permission.