Dr. Irmgard Emmelhainz: Destructive Desires and Other Destinies of Excess: Lecture
@ SAIC | MacLean Center
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, October 2nd, at 4:30PM
We are so excited to kick off the new school year with our 35th Annual Norma U. Lifton Lecture in Art History with Dr. Irmgard Emmelhainz. Join us on October 2 at 4:30 pm at the Maclean Building Ballroom on 112 S Michigan Ave for “Destructive Desires and Other Destinies of Excess”. Emmelhainz’s lecture will be discussing her current research as part of her curatorial fellowship at Blackwood Gallery in Toronto, CA.
Malaise, mental and physical and illness traverse the entire social globalized field. Industrial production has now been transformed into a global and interdependent economic system that generates excess waste inassimilable by nature’s cycles. In tandem, consumerism and individualist hedonism follow the systemic mandate to pursue individual happiness, which considers suffering as personal failure and negates death. Therefore, human behavior is determined by the fulfillment of desires to increase hedonistic pleasure, decrease pain, and postpone death. In our toxic world, moreover, we find pleasurable and desirable perfumes, cleaning products, foods, commodities laden with chemicals and commodities manufactured through enslaved labor and extractivism. All of these ultimately damage us and the planet, so, How is it that we are doing this to ourselves?
Irmgard Emmelhainz is a global scholar, writer and professor based in Anahuac Valley (Mexico City) at La Esmeralda, National School of Engraving, Painting, and Sculpture. She holds a Ph.D. from the Art Department at the University of Toronto (2009) and an M.A. in Art History, Theory and Criticism from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2004) funded by a Fulbright grant. Her work about film, the Palestine Question, art, culture and neoliberalism has been translated to over a dozen languages and she has presented it at an array of international venues. Her publications include The Sky is Incomplete: Travel Chronicles in Palestine, Jean-Luc Godard’s Political Filmmaking, Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures: Feminist Living as Resistance, and The Tyranny of Common Sense: Mexico’s Postneoliberal Conversion.
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