Join us for an evening with Gregory Sholette in conversation with Dr. Kim Charnley and Kathrin Böhm to celebrate the launch of Sholette’s new publication: The Radical Unpresent – Cultural Resistance in a Fractured World.
The Radical Unpresent examines the disorienting contemporary moment in which our experience of time has become profoundly disrupted. Building on his earlier work on “dark matter” in the art world, Gregory Sholette introduces the concept of the unpresent–a condition in which everything appears the same yet is completely transformed, lacking both a past and a future.
The book traces the emergence of this uncanny temporal state through Brexit, Trump’s first election, and the COVID pandemic, culminating in the January 6 insurrection and the rise of MAGA 2.0 in 2025.