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URL:http://www.russianmix.com/events/viewevent/7234-guest-lecture-conversation-geta-bratescu-s-aesop-romance-stitching-the-image-with-sven-spieker/ 
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture & Conversation: 'Geta Bratescu’s Aesop Romance: Stitching the Image' with Sven Spieker
DESCRIPTION:engraving, textiles, and photography, as well as experimental film, video, and performance – mines themes of identity, gender, and dematerialization, often drawing from the stories of literary figures and addressing the symbiotic relationship between art making and working environments. The lecture 'Geta Bratescu’s Aesop Romance: Stitching the Image' will be led by Sven Spieker and will be followed by a conversation about the artist’s work.
This event is free to attend and open to the public, however, due to limited seating, reservations are recommended.

About Sven Spieker
Spieker received a B.A. from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London and a Ph.D. from Oxford University, Merton College. After extended stays in Moscow and Los Angeles, he accepted an appointment as assistant professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. In 1995 Spieker took up a position at the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies and the Comparative Literature Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. As an affiliate faculty member in the departments of Art and History of Art and Architecture, he teaches courses in 19th and 20th-century Russian and East-Central European literature and art. Spieker has been a referee for the Stanford Humanities Center, the MIT Press, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the founding editor of ARTMargins Print, a journal devoted to contemporary art practice in the global margins, and a member of the editorial collective that runs ARTMargins Online.
LOCATION:Hauser & Wirth, 901 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90013
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