ATTENDED LECTURE
PSYCHEDELIA BETWEEN TERROR AND SC-FI
LARS BANG LARSSEN
OFFICE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, OSLO
20 SEPTEMBER 06


Of course the summer of love in 1967 was about good vibes, but more than that it presented a radical, ecstatic vision which entailed getting rid of your old self in order to engage in a future collective togetherness. This talk will focus on notions of ecstasy and community in examples of psychedelic art and culture from the US, Europe and Latin America.

Lars Bang Larssen is a free-lance critic and curator responsible for group shows, including Pyramids of Mars, Fundamentalisms of the New Order, The Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds and Populism. Co-curator of the 1998 Nordic Biennale Momentum, he has written about the art and culture of the 1960s and regularly contributes to Frieze and Artforum. Larssen currently teaches at Konsthögskolan in Stockholm.
(from www.underskog.no)

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