Culture Lab Detroit’s 2018 program, The Crisis of Beauty, will host luminary artists, critics, curators, architects, and scientists for a series of discussions about how their work harnesses, rejects, informs or complicates the aesthetic precept of beauty. Beauty's elusive ability to be defined masks its influence on nearly all aspects of our lives. This program aims to explore how beauty intersects with multiculturalism, the intricacies of gentrification, gender politics, and unbounded assimilation of technology to offer novel or previously suppressed perspectives. All dialogues are free and open to the public.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2018
RoboCop
Free screening of the original 1987 film
8 PM
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2018
The Aesthetics of Tomorrow
6 PM Reception / 6:30 PM Dialogue
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Mark Pauline
Performance Artist, Founder and Inventor of Survival Research Laboratories
Eyal Weizman
Architect, Director of Forensic Architecture
Anicka Yi
Conceptual Artist
Yesomi Umolu
Moderator; Artistic Director of the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial and Exhibitions Curator at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago
Dr. Peter Weller
Special Guest; Art Historian and RoboCop title role
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2018
Seeing and Being Seen
6 PM Reception / 6:30 PM Dialogue
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Jon Gray
Co-founder of Ghetto Gastro
dream hampton
Filmmaker, Writer, Organizer
Juliana Huxtable
Conceptual Artist, Writer, Performer, and Musician
Amy Sherald
Painter
Jazmine Hughes
Moderator; Associate Editor for The New York Times Magazine
Rev. Barry Randolph
Special Guest; Church of the Messiah, Detroit
