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Curator and writer Fionn Meade will talk about his curatorial practice
and introduce three concepts arising from research done at the close
of the 19th century by cultural thinkers involved in developing new
applications within quickly expanding fields, specifically
anthropologist Franz Boas’ “secondary rationalization,” art historian
Aby Warburg’s “pathosformel,” and sociologist Gabriel Tarde’s
“quantification.” By thinking through these concepts together, Meade
will consider their shared traits as partial, even symptomatic
methods, and how their insights question presumed trajectories of
modernity, and might yet be relevant. Meade will consider these
concepts in relation to recent exhibitions Time Again, Nachleben, and
Plaisance.

Fionn Meade is a writer and curator based in New York. He is currently
a faculty member at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College,
and in the MFA program for Visual Arts, Columbia University. Recent
and upcoming exhibitions include The Assistants at David Kordansky
Gallery, and Plaisance, at Midway Contemporary Art. He has previously
been a curator at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, and SculptureCenter,
NY, where exhibitions included Scene, Hold, Ballast, with David
Maljkovic and Lucy Skaer, and the exhibitions Time Again and Knight’s
Move, a survey of new sculpture in New York.