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LG Williams In Conversation…

LG Williams, What Was The Alternative? It Had To Be Done: That Is How The System Works, Or: You’re Like A Child (Performing Songs From Your Upcoming Christmas Album) or, Consider This: My Life As A Duct Taped Cuckoo Clock (For JF), 2010, 14 x 10 in., Duct Tape on Wooden Cuckoo Clock, Limited Edition of 50. Copyright 2010-24 LG Williams and The Estate of LG Williams. All Rights Reserved.

LG Williams, What Was The Alternative? It Had To Be Done: That Is How The System Works, Or: You’re Like A Child (Performing Songs From Your Upcoming Christmas Album) or, Consider This: My Life As A Duct Taped Cuckoo Clock (For JF), 2010, 14 x 10 in., Duct Tape on Wooden Cuckoo Clock, Limited Edition of 50. Copyright © 2010-24 LG Williams and The Estate of LG Williams. All Rights Reserved.
 
 
LG Williams In Conversation…
 
Friday, May 17, 2024, 6:30 – 7:30pm
Table Rock Lake School of the Arts, Table Rock Lake, Mo.
www.lgwilliams.com
 

LG Williams will be in a timely and rare live conversation with 5th-generation AI Arts-Trained Chatbot Hey-Yu Whazup as part of Barry County Township Public Art Fund Talks, a series organized in collaboration with the Table Rock Lake Friends of the Arts. This lecture series connects lesser-known, ultra-marginalized contemporary Los Angeles artists to a broad public living in and around America’s vast but under-recognized Bible Belt region.

During the conversation, the pair will delve into Williams’s ambitious and timely sculpture, Duct Taped Cuckoo (2010). This now iconic sculpture, currently installed in a dedicated unit in a public storage facility near Bel-Voir Acres Airport, in Golden, Missouri, is a testament to Williams’s unique artistic vision. It evokes the negation of art, time, history, and awareness through an intricate, intimate, and intense application of duct tape, preventing an automated cuckoo bird from appearing, moving forward, and bellowing its alarm.

Williams and Whazup will also explore how LG developed, combined, and meta-infused anarcho-iconoclastic artistic practices to represent and reify an uber-aesthetic theory, mega-artistic aesthetics, and faux-research methodology known as Prosperity Aesthetics (PA) — a recent aesthetic conceptualization advanced by many get-rich-quick progressive-minded artists which advocates non-linear, trans-disciplinary experiences with non-art, non-time, non-historical, and non-consciousness practices in The Neo-Feudal stage of the Early Anthropocene.

This Zoom event is free to attend (although donations are appreciated) and reservations are encouraged.

 
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Book Signing Event: Art, Religion, Amnesia: The Enchantments of Credulity by Donald Preziosi — At the 102nd College Art Association annual conference in Chicago on Friday, February 14 at 2:00pm

Art, Religion, Amnesia: The Enchantments of Credulity by Donald Preziosi

 

Art, Religion, Amnesia: The Enchantments of Credulity by Donald Preziosi

LG Williams is pleased to announce that his artwork “I CAN SEE THE WHOLE ROOM!… AND THERE IS NO ART IN IT!” appeared in Donald Preziosi’s new book, Art, Religion, Amnesia: The Enchantments of Credulity, just published by Routledge. The book addresses the relationship between art and religion in contemporary culture, directly challenging contemporary notions of art and religion as distinct social phenomena and explaining how such Western terms represent alternative and even antithetical modes of world-making. Art, Religion, Amnesia is a unique re-evaluation of the essential indeterminacy of meaning-making, marking a radically new approach to understanding the inextricability of aesthetics and theology and will be of interest to students and researchers in art history, philosophy and religion and cultural theory.

Donald Preziosi is 2002 Slate Professor of Art at Oxford University, and Professor Emeritus of Art History at UCLA, where he developed the art history critical theory program as well as the UCLA museum studies program. His research, teaching, and writing link together cultural studies, intellectual history, critical theory, the arts, and museologies of various ancient and modern societies. His other recent publications include: The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology, Oxford History of Art (Oxford University Press, 2009); Rethinking Art History: Meditations on a Coy, (Yale University Press, 1991); In the Aftermath of Art: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics (with Johanne Lamoureux), in Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture, (Routledge, 2005).

Professor Preziosi will be speaking at the book’s official launch during the 102nd College Art Association annual conference in Chicago on Friday, February 14 at 2:00pm.

LG Williams Lecture: Mona Lisa’s Smile
Saturday, September 21st, 7pm
Spirit of the Senses Salon, Phoenix, AZ

LG Williams Lecture: Mona Lisa’s Smile

LG Williams, How To Explain Art To The Sports Generation: Mona Lisa
2004, 40 x 30”, Vinyl and Engineer Grade Reflective Sheeting on Heavy-Duty Aluminum

LG Williams
Lecture: Mona Lisa’s Smile (pdf)
Saturday, September 21st, 7pm
Spirit of the Senses Salon, Phoenix, AZ
Additional funding provided by The Derazhne-Fridman Charitable Trust