Lecture Sam Durant + Pieter Spierenburg part of Studium Generale Program KABK

Monday 21 October 15 hrs
Location: Auditorium KABK, Prinsessengracht 4, The Hague
Entrance: free
Reservations not required
Language: Engels

www.kabk.nl

On the occasion of the opening of his artwork Scaffold in The Hague (on Sunday 20 October) the American artist Sam Durant - together with criminologist Pieter Spierenburg - will give a lecture at the KABK (Royal Academy of Art The Hague), as part of the Studium Generale Program.

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
- Elie Wiesel

The website of Sam Durant begins with this quote about evil and indifference. These are themes that are inextricably interwoven within the American artist Sam Durant's work. Durant is a professional demonstrator, spin doctor, and campaign leader who represents young, old, black and white, man and woman. In the light of his work Scaffold Sam Durant will talk about the meaning of the gallows, his work and his ideas about imprisonment, solicarity and death.

This lecture is also in concurrence with See You in The Hague, a multifaceted narrative about the ambitions and reality of The Hague as International City of Peace and Justice.

www.samdurant.net

Sam Durant, 'Scaffold', The Hague, 2013
photo: Vincent de Boer (Stroom Den Haag)
Poster KABK
Poster: opening Sam Durant 'Scaffold'
photo: © Sam Durant (graphic design: Autobahn)