Too Soon

March 14-15, 2013

When writing about what he called the “topology of contemporary art” critic Boris Groys made the important observation that the cultural production of the current age “privileges the present with respect to the future and to the past.”  Taking such to be true, and mindful of the obligations of  the study of historical change, the study of contemporary art and the cultural implications of  what is often called contemporaniety, turns on the question of whether it is possible to study the present while simultaneously existing within it. At the heart of this experiential, observational and temporal concern is that of the role and perhaps necessity of distance in the critical study of cultural production. Too Soon invites exploration of this rolling spatial and temporal phenomenon through the lenses of history, theory, criticism, artistic practice, curation, design, media studies and their various combinations.