Symposium—Surrealism Beyond Borders | Surrealism and Time

The Met

Nearly from its inception, Surrealism has had an international scope, but perspectives on the movement have been formed primarily through a Western European focus. The exhibition “Surrealism Beyond Borders” reconsiders the “movement” of Surrealism across boundaries of geography and chronology. This two-day series of conversations with leading scholars and artists continues to explore the issues raised in the exhibition, especially the blind spots, erasures, and challenges, and their consequences for thinking about Surrealism.

How have conventions of narrating history, periodization, and chronology complicated a transnational and transhistoric view of Surrealism? Understanding that time is experienced differently in places and among cultures, can Surrealism be a potential bridge? How might we reconcile positions that were radical in the historic past (around issues of colonialism, appropriation, imperialism, racism, sexism, and further restrictions on artists’ freedoms) with today’s critical reassessments of Surrealism and within current discussions of racial and social equity?

Speakers:
Sam Durant, artist
Marie Mauzé, Emeritus Director of Research, Laboratory of Social Anthropology, Collège de France
Partha Mitter, art historian and writer
Michael Stone-Richards, Professor of Critical Practice and Visual Studies, College for Creative Studies
Moderated by Dawn Adès, Emeritus Professor, School of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex

Session 3: Friday, January 21, 2022, 10am-12:00pm

This symposium is presented by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational.

Learn more about the exhibition: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2021/surrealism-beyond-borders

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