Tag: Art and Psychedelia

Lecture | Lars Bang Larsen - Art and Psychedelia

Boiler Room Series Art and Psychedelia | Lars Bang Larsen Independent curator Lars Bang Larsen will present his research in art and psychedelia from both academic and exhibition making perspectives. He will discuss the connection between art and psychedelic imagery, concepts and practices in relation to his recent curatorial projects B/W Sensorium, as part of Dexter Bang Sinister at Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen (2012), and Reflections from Damaged Life, Raven Row, London (2013). This line of enquiry follows a non-linear path, through individual artistic interpretations of how the psychedelic notion of transformation might lead to new possibilities for experience. Lars Bang Larsen is an independent curator and writer based in Barcelona and Copenhagen, whose exhibitions and books consider artists’ engagement with counter culture and social activism from the 1960s onwards. He has a PhD from the University of Copenhagen, where he completed…