Dear Friend,

Stux Gallery, New York is pleased to announce a special informal panel discussion and performance in conjunction with Gia Edzgveradze's solo exhibition, "The Stolen Blanket and Other Short Stories", currently on view. This panel discussion, "Radical Criticism for Radical Future", will be held at Stux Gallery on Thursday, February 17, 2011, starting at 6:30 PM and is open to the public.

The panel theme will consider two specific topics:

1) The doubtful future of a "Radical Future". Posed against the naïve future, a "Radical Future" is the vision-even better, an abstract expectation-not compiled from the past and without any hopes for "better", which can only arise from our inner uncommon tendency to move to direct ourselves toward the "will to absurd" and from this will to the ultimate Other, what is in fact a "Radical Future".

2) The crucial role art institutions play in the valorization of the art event. This topic puts into question the situation wherein artistic activity has elided entirely with the culture industry, when the opposition between art and culture has nearly entirely vanished and in its place marches the "traveling circus" of artists who merely propagate and illustrate institutional discourse, effectively serving only the valorization of the "product" of the art world and its intellectual marketing.  

Following the panel discussion, the gallery will host special performances by  

Gia Edzgeveradze and G. Douglas Barrett.

We warmly invite you to attend our event,    

With Best Wishes,

Gia Edzgveradze and Stefan Stux

 Stux Gallery