Art Chats

Please join us at the Museum for our new series of informal, interactive talks with artist Peter Freund. Each Art Chat will focus on a different cross-section of work in his current IRAN|USA exhibition. The Chats are free of charge. Light snacks and coffee will be provided. 

April 26 at 1:00 - Digital Tombs

Peter Freund’s digital images explore the visual image as an absence, negation or erasure of the visible. Freund discusses the principle of a “digital tomb” in his series of conceptual prints.

May 3 at 1:00 - Desire

Discussing the overlapping relationship between trauma and desire, Peter Freund explores a parallel between artistic and psychoanalytic practices.

May 10 at 1:00 - Alternative Facts

“Alternative facts” – a symptom of neoliberal freedom? In this talk, Peter Freund discusses the paradoxical connection between facts and fantasy in political thinking, highlighting three works of video art in his current exhibition.