Who's on Campus? Robert Kilroy: Materiality in the Museum - Some Thoughts on a Media Postmortem

Join us in the Reading Room for a talk by art historian Robert Kilroy.

Robert Kilroy is a visiting lecturer at the Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, where he teaches Historiography and Aesthetics on the MA in Art history and Museum Studies. In his talk, he will reflect on how this personal and professional trajectory, from a grounding in aesthetic theory to an alignment of art historical, curatorial, and pedagogical practices, has informed and guided his research and thinking, culminating in a heightened materialist approach to the study of images, what Kilroy terms a media postmortem.

Who’s on Campus? is a series of impromptu talks by artists, thinkers, and cultural practitioners held in the Reading Room of the NYUAD Art Gallery. The remit of the series is to catch those passing through Abu Dhabi to talk about their trajectories, most recent projects or work in progress. Meant to offer spontaneous conversations, Who’s on Campus? aims to provide a casual but exacting platform. The series is an adaptation from its initial iteration at SALT, Istanbul, titled Who’s in Town? and can be reproduced anywhere that acts as a hub or stopover for artistic thinking.