On March 23rd at 11:00 (LT time zone, GMT+2) you are kindly invited to attend an open lecture „GHOST RIDE THE WHIP“, delivered by Matthew Post (Post Brothers) and moderated by the VAA lecturer Vytenis Burokas.
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About the topic
In the San Francisco Bay Area Hyphy rap subculture, there is a curious practice called “ghost riding the whip” whereby a driver exits their car while it is in gear, and dances around the moving vehicle as it slowly propels itself forward. Using this dangerous form of car surfing as a model for creative curatorial para-texts and conspiracies in cultural production, this presentation will consider the deployment of text as not simply a means of pinning down an idea, but allowing it to move on its own. Post Brothers will speak about how certain cultural objects drive specific logics and will discuss his own curatorial work and his regular habit of supporting artists through collaborative word processing. Given its homonymic relation to the practice of “ghostwriting” (whereby text is confidentially written to support another creative work or author), this framework will likewise be used to describe the ghostly character of information surrounding art, as well as the peculiar and precarious labor of dancing around cultural production.
About the presenter
Post Brothers is a critical enterprise that includes Matthew Post, an enthusiast, word processor, and curator, often engaged in artist-centered projects and collaborations, or occupying the secondary information surrounding cultural production. From 2016 through 2019, Post Brothers was the curator at Kunstverein München in Munich, Germany. He has curated exhibitions and presented projects in Poland, Mexico, Canada, the United States, Portugal, Denmark, Greece, Estonia, Germany, Austria, Lithuania, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Latvia, The Netherlands, and China.
Currently, Post Brothers is curating Double double, a solo exhibition by Laura Kaminskaitė at the ŠMC/Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius. In the summer of 2021, he will also collaborate with Katarzyna Różniak to curate Na początku był czyn! (In the beginning was the deed!) at the Galeria Arsenał in Białystok, an exhibition inspired by Białystok's history of insurrectionary anarchism.
Post Brothers’ essays and articles have been published in numerous art and culture magazines, as well as in a litany of artist publications and exhibition catalogues. Post Brothers also regularly participates in exhibitions with text-based and performative contributions, and lectures and teaches seminars throughout Europe.
Matthew Post has an MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and a BFA from Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, Canada. He lives in Kolonia Koplany, a small village near Białystok, Poland, and works everywhere and anywhere.
The open lecture is organised by the VAA Sculpture department.
To join the open lecture please click the link below:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81573416422?pwd=WlFVdW1Sbmh5Y1dBSlBocnh2SCtCQT09
Meeting ID: 815 7341 6422
Passcode: 044509
