Art Talk on Overflow (or what the splashing fountain is all about)

The piece, "Awakening", is a work by the Swedish artist Meta Isæus-Berlin and has been donated to SSE for permanent display. As an opening event for Isæus-Berlin's deluging installation, Art Division are inviting you to an Art Talk on overflow, and how one can manage excess through learning how to neglect and ignore.Lecturers at the event are Barbara Czarniawska, Professor of Management Studies at the University of Gothenburg, and Orvar Löfgren, Professor of European Ethnology at the University of Lund.Barbara Czarniawska is head of the research program Managing Overflow at GRI and is together with Orvar Löfgren, co-editor of "Coping with Excess - How Organizations, Communities and Individuals Manage Overflow." She takes a feminist and constructionist perspective on organizing, recently exploring the phenomenon of overflow and the ways in which people, institutions and corporations define and manage situations of too much.Orvar Löfgren, co-editor of "Coping with Excess - How Organizations, Communities and Individuals Manage Overflow.", and focuses in his research on cultural analysis and ethnography of everyday life. He explores the world of crucial but elusive academic skills used for surviving overflows, and underlines the importance of selective knowledge and the ability to oversee and forget. Photo: Galleri Andersson/Sandström