The UCLA Department of Art has announced a public lecture by Anton Vidokle as part of its Visiting Artists Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the Department of Art History. The event takes place on 23 October 2026 at 7pm at the UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios, 3600 Hayden Avenue, Culver City, California. The announcement reflects on how an artistic practice can become difficult to locate when it extends into the structures through which art is published, taught or exhibited. Over time, the distinction between a project and the institution it produces becomes harder to sustain, and Vidokle's career has been a sustained exploration of precisely that blur. Moving between e-flux, unitednationsplaza and his films on cosmism, Vidokle will revisit the encounters, collaborations and material arrangements from which these projects emerged. Their histories unfold through returns and unforeseen continuities, as questions first formulated in one setting acquire a different urgency in another. The lecture follows these exchanges across the activities through which his practice has developed: organising, publishing, education, curating and filmmaking. The framing recalls that e-flux began in 1998 with an email invitation to an exhibition and grew into an organisation for publishing, criticism and artistic production. Its history is closely connected to experiments in education, including the unrealised school proposed for Manifesta 6, unitednationsplaza in Berlin in 2006-07, and Night School at the New Museum in New York in 2008-09. Discussions and collaborations formed through these projects helped shape the e-flux journal, and the lecture is presented as a chance to trace how arguments carry beyond the rooms in which they begin.