POST BROTHERS – lecture and performance ‘Cosmic Latte: In Search of Universal Color’

We invite you to a lecture and performance
from the cycle 'Is art necessary and why?'

Post Brothers. "Cosmic Latte: In Search of Universal Color". 

(the lecture will be held in English with Polish translation)

In 2001, a team of astronomers sought to determine the age and composition of stars by charting emitted light in the largest sample of the universe yet analyzed–several billion light years of information found in 200,000 galaxies. The cosmic spectrum produced was computationally averaged and translated according to what the human eye could see, creating a gestalt view of both the history of the universe and its generalized hue. This research yielded what is considered the "average color of the universe", a mediocre beige that was oddly named "cosmic latte". This lecture investigates the ramifications the color has on aesthetics and connects the discovery of the color to broader questions concerning the monochrome, notions of "averageness", banality, and the hubristic aim of viewing the all of creation in a single image.

Post Brothers is a critical enterprise that includes Matthew Post, a curator and writer currently working from an elevator in Oakland, California. Post
has a Masters of Arts degree in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts in San Francisco and a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from Emily
Carr Institute in Vancouver, Canada. Post Brothers’ recent projects include "Post", a week long writing project interpreting a selection of objects daily for Galerie Kamm's "Rosa" program in Berlin; "What Happened To The Other Dollar?," a group exhibition at Proyectos Monclova in Mexico City; "What Follows Will Follow II", a series of interpretive exercises for Danish artist, Nina Beier's solo exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; "SC13," a 6 month long shifting exhibition of objects in a showcase in the San Francisco Antique and Design Mall; "Exercises In Seeing", an exhibition featuring over 30 international artist projects held completely in the dark;
"The Secret of the Ninth Planet", a group exhibition in various San Francisco locations; and "Manly Deeds, Womanly Words: Border Crossing in the Old Line State", a guerrilla American Civil War reenactment drag show on a public ferry for Jens Hoffman’s Americana series at the CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. Post Brothers’ essays and articles have been published in Cura Magazine, Annual Magazine, Spike Art Quarterly, Fillip, Nero, ArtSlant, Kaleidoscope, Mousse Contemporary Art, Pazmaker, Curating Now, Woo Magazine, and Snowball, as well as numerous artist publications and exhibition catalogues.
 

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