Tuesday 27 January 2015

Tuesday Talk: Robert Pfaller

11am—12.30pm

Robert Pfaller is professor of cultural theory at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria. He is a founding member of the Viennese psychoanalytic research group stuzzicadenti.

Pfaller will be discussing his recent book, The Pleasure Principle in Culture: Illusions Without Owners, which was awarded The Missing Link price for connecting psychoanalysis with other scientific disciplines.

Free, no booking necessary.

The Tuesday Talks series are a collaboration between the Whitworth and Manchester School of Art.

The Tuesday Talks invites leading artists, thinkers and curators to explore the driving forces, influences and sources of inspiration within contemporary art. As the Whitworth reopens on Saturday 14 February the Tuesday Talks will return to the Gallery from Tuesday 17 February.