How does something very ordinary, and banal, say a rock, become something extraordinary?  If that rock was a piece of gold, it’s easy to say that its material properties aid such advancement. But, is this embedded quality the material’s only means toward evaluation, or is there something more to be said about the psychological affect of its glow?  Join us on 7 May at 7pm to discuss whether objects—artistic or otherwise—are valued for some intrinsic and/or material reason, as opposed to their potential to illicit subjective phenomenological responses.

Adam Kleinman (New York City) is a writer, a lecturer, an occasional performer, and a sometime curator.  He is currently Editor at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam). Most recently he was Agent for Public Programming at dOCUMENTA (13) (Kassel). In addition to these, and other activities, Kleinman is a frequent contributor to multiple books, magazines, and journals, and is a Visiting Tutor at Sandburg Institute (Amsterdam).

Adam Kleinman is a Robert Lehman Visiting Artist at The Cooper Union for Spring 2013.

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