Drawing on the collection of the Austrian Ludwig Foundation and beyond, this one-day symposium focusses on New York art practices of the 1960s and 70s by engaging with the works of Rosemarie Castoro (1939–2015), Lee Lozano (1930–1999), and Howardena Pindell (*1943). Intersecting in various ways with notions of abstraction, Minimalism and Postminimalism, the three artists’ works were also formed against the backdrop of their respective relationship to and involvement with political movements of that period such as the Art Workers’ Coalition, burgeoning feminism as well as the Black Power movement. 

The symposium takes US scholar Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s notion of “beside” as a starting point in order to make meaningful connections between the artists’ practices that resist a linear logic and allow for a complex and contradictory range of spatial, temporal, and aesthetic relations. Through a series of talks, conversations, and a roundtable discussion with a number of international speakers, the symposium positions the three artists’ practices not only within the cultural, social, and political contexts of the US in the 1960s and 70s. It also seeks to engage with them from a contemporary curatorial perspective through which institutional exhibitions and the global art market are connected with art historical discourses and artists’ more recent works. 

Morning Program
Saturday, January 31, 2026, 10 am to 1.30 pm

10 am
Welcome
Introduction Christian Liclair

10.30 am
SCREENING
Hollis Frampton, Manual of Arms, 1966, 17 mins.

10.45 am
Setting the Scene: Art, Labor, Politics, and Refusal 
A conversation between Julia Bryan-Wilson and Anna Lovatt 

11.30 am
David Getsy
Postminimalism’s Polymorphous Sexuality

Part 1: LEE LOZANO

12 pm
Helena Vilalta
Waving at the Whitney: Lee Lozano’s Erotics of Information

12.30 pm
"A good score" 
A conversation on Lee Lozano with Manuela Ammer, Martin Beck, and Sophie Cras

1 pm
Audience questions

The symposium will be in English.