Exhibitionistas: Notes on Art

Copy / Original: Can Reproductions Truly Move Us?

Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer

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Is it possible to have a moving art experience of a copy or a mechanically reproduced artwork? Such is the anxiety regarding art, reinforced, often, by a wildly misunderstood concept coined by Walter Benjamin: the aura, the "here and now of the work of art". #walterbenjamin #aura #technologyandart

What if mass reproduction of images brought an art liberation? What is preserving the here and now of the aesthetic experience was a form of gatekeeping?

And how can we read the concept of aura today?

Interested in Worlding, my art space & residency in London?

https://www.worldingproject.com/

Interested in seeing the exhibition with Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE for Refugee Week? https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/across-lands-and-seas-exhibition

Interested in our Workshops? https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/workshops-across-lands-and-seas-exhibition

And our talk about courage? https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/across-lands-and-seas

Know more about Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE.

Read Katy Barron's Women who Podcast Magazine. And listen to our episode in Kathy's podcast Women Who Sarcast.

And here is the link to Kathy's awesome film Navel Gazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogy1nTiCms0&t=205s

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00:00 Can we be moved by a reproduction of an artwork?

07:04 Walter Benjamin's "Aura" is often misunderstood

15:52 My 2nd hand art experience: 2 paintings by Caspar D. Friedrich

20:12 Benjamin, a fellow podcaster? And the real change brought by tech

29:07 Art Etiquette segment!

40:13 Walter Benjamin's Influence on Art and Technology

40:13 Copy v automated reproduction

53:26 Brainstorm in a teacup segment!

54:37 Answer to the question: can we be moved by a copy of art?

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