{"id":6204,"date":"2017-11-13T14:45:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T14:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/?p=6204"},"modified":"2017-11-13T14:45:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T14:45:22","slug":"the-hawksmoor-international-lecture-series-2017-2018-tamara-trodd-a-thing-that-would-gladly-be-cheerful-speech-gesture-and-high-spirits-in-the-work-of-ryan-trecartin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/2017\/11\/13\/the-hawksmoor-international-lecture-series-2017-2018-tamara-trodd-a-thing-that-would-gladly-be-cheerful-speech-gesture-and-high-spirits-in-the-work-of-ryan-trecartin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2017-2018 :: Tamara Trodd ::  \u2018A Thing That Would Gladly Be Cheerful\u2019: Speech, Gesture and High Spirits in the Work of Ryan Trecartin"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Thursday 16th November 2017, 6.30pm<\/li>\n<li>Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6205\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/11\/171116_Tamara-Trodd_poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/11\/171116_Tamara-Trodd_poster.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/11\/171116_Tamara-Trodd_poster-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The high-speed, fast-talking videos of Ryan Trecartin (b.1981) have captured artworld attention since around 2006, when he exhibited in the Whitney Biennial. Critical writing about the work celebrates the inventiveness with which Trecartin visualizes the impact of the internet and social media on characters\u2019 appearance and behavior, but little attempt has been made to link Trecartin to any longer history, or to examine the questions his work raises about our contemporary lives. In tonight\u2019s lecture, Dr Tamara Trodd will examine in what ways Trecartin puts the question of \u2018life\u2019 today at stake; in particular, focusing on the significance of humour and \u2018high spirits\u2019 in contemporary art.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Tamara Trodd is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Edinburgh. Her recent book, <em>The Art of Mechanical Reproduction: Technology and Aesthetics from Duchamp to the Digital<\/em> (University of Chicago Press 2015), examines the history of the idea of a \u2018medium\u2019 in artistic practice from the 1920s to the present day. Tonight\u2019s talk forms part of her current project, on \u2018Forms of Life in Modern and Contemporary Art\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 16th November 2017, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] The high-speed, fast-talking videos of Ryan Trecartin (b.1981) have captured artworld attention since around 2006, when he exhibited in the Whitney Biennial. Critical writing about the work celebrates the inventiveness with which Trecartin visualizes the impact of the internet and social media on characters\u2019 appearance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-6204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-open-lectures","tag-ryan-trecartin"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}