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Dialogical Interventions
  • Language: en

Dialogical Interventions

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: de Gruyter

How can art change society? What aesthetic quality does dialog bring to art? What is the role of autonomy in dialogical art? Dialogical Interventions investigates how dialogical art moves between the poles of social engagement, aesthetic autonomy and social change. Essays by international authors and interviews with socially and politically engaged artists and collectives focus on the relevance of dialogical and interventionist practices and their role in mediating new forms of knowledge and experience through art, thus opening up new prospects for this exciting arena of activity. Between the individual texts, artist insertions document social artistic practices on a visual level. Essays by: Mary Jane Jacob, Boris Groys, Suzana Milevska, Barbara Putz-Plecko, Martin Krenn Interviews with: Gerald Bast, Aisling O'Beirn, Gluklya, Renate Höllwart, Elke Smodics (trafo.K), Florian Malzacher, Alastair McLennan, Christina Varvia (Forensic Architecture), Selda Asal Projects/Interviews by: Liliane-Sarah Kölbl, Cornelia Kolmann, Nora Licka, Nina Kugler, Lea Jank, Ariana Joya Mc Manus, Shobha Untersteiner, Tanja Happel, Rosie Benn, Marius Fischer, Johanna Folkmann, Eve Sherl

Stories of Traumatic Pasts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 105

Stories of Traumatic Pasts

  • Categories: Art

Belgischer Kolonialismus im Kongo, Antisemitismus in Österreich, Turbo-Nationalismus im ehemaligen Jugoslawien – diese drei historischen Stränge von Gewalt und Vernichtung erzwangen und stützten einen Prozess des Vergessens, der bis heute eine Aufarbeitung der durch sie verursachten Genozide verhindert. Heute droht eine unfreiwillige oder ausgeübte Amnesie all das zu zerstören, was bereits in Hinblick auf ein mögliches Zusammenleben erreicht wurde. Der Ausstellungskatalog geht zu diesen traumatischen Ereignissen der Geschichte sowie der jüngsten Vergangenheit mit ihrer zerstörerischen Wirkung auf Gemeinschaften und Völker, Staaten und Territorien zurück und stellen sie einem System von Interventionen gegenüber. Die nach Gräueltaten zurückbleibenden Narben sind zwar oft versteckt und ausgelöscht, lassen sich aber durch künstlerische, wissenschaftliche und politische Reflexionen zurückholen.

Ricarda Denzer - Ganz Ohr / All Ears
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Ricarda Denzer - Ganz Ohr / All Ears

  • Categories: Art

Think - speak - listen: A portrait of an artist's work The act of hearing the sound of spoken language forms a fluid, sometimes fractured act of change in time. At the same time, orality and the human voice are situated in space and thus create new places. This publication brings to the fore the performative character of the human voice and the unifying, spatial quality of sound and presents works by the artist Ricarda Denzer from the last ten years. The starting point of this book is the thesis that thinking has a voice and that this voice has a body. Listening as a physical, performative act is understood as a creative process of "becoming world," of participating in the world. The book explores questions of how we think, how we remember, and how we relate to the world. An overview of the artistic work of Ricarda Denzer in the period 2013-2023 Artistic practice as situated listening; experimental artistic approaches from sound and voice studies With contributions by Fouad Asfour, Christa Benzer, Ricarda Denzer, Christiane Erharter, Christian Höller, Brandon LaBelle, and Jaimini Patel

MATERIAL WITNESS
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 391

MATERIAL WITNESS

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-02-25
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

The evidential role of matter—when media records trace evidence of violence—explored through a series of cases drawn from Kosovo, Japan, Vietnam, and elsewhere. In this book, Susan Schuppli introduces a new operative concept: material witness, an exploration of the evidential role of matter as both registering external events and exposing the practices and procedures that enable matter to bear witness. Organized in the format of a trial, Material Witness moves through a series of cases that provide insight into the ways in which materials become contested agents of dispute around which stake holders gather. These cases include an extraordinary videotape documenting the massacre at Izbica...

City views a photoproject: migrant perspectives
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 102

City views a photoproject: migrant perspectives

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

City Views bietet Einblicke in verschiedene europäische Städte, die Martin Krenn in Kooperation mit dort lebenden StadtbewohnerInnen mit migrantischem Hintergrund entwickelt hat. In der Foto-Text-Serie werden verschiedene Sichtweisen auf die jeweils untersuchten Städte zueinander in Beziehung gesetzt. Im Blickfeld stehen die spezifisch sozialen, kulturellen und politischen Verhältnisse von urbanen Orten, an welchen MigrantInnen(gruppen) agieren.

Art, Anthropology, and Contested Heritage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Art, Anthropology, and Contested Heritage

  • Categories: Art

This book presents innovative ethnographic perspectives on the intersections between art, anthropology, and contested cultural heritage, drawing on research from the interdisciplinary TRACES project (funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 program). The case studies in this volume critically assess how and in which arrangements artistic/aesthetic methods and creative everyday practices contribute to strengthening communities both culturally and economically. They also explore the extent to which these methods emphasize minority voices and ultimately set in motion a process of reflexive Europeanisation from below which unfolds within Europe and beyond its borders. At the heart of the book is the deve...

The Octopus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

The Octopus

  • Categories: Art

Vielfalt in der künstlerischen Forschung Dieses Buch versammelt die Ergebnisse des Octopus Programme - ein innovatives Fellowship im Bereich der künstlerischen Forschung. Es entstand ein internationales Netzwerk aus elf Institutionen, mit ausgewählten Teilnehmer: innen aus Europa, dem Mittelmeerraum und Afrika, mit zahlreichen Veranstaltungen, Workshops und Ausstellungen. Durch die Förderung internationaler Kollaborationen wurden neue kritische Perspektiven entwickelt, zur Untersuchung der Vielfalt künstlerischer Forschung und Praxis in unterschiedlichen Kontexten - im akademischen und nicht akademischen Bereich, innerhalb und außerhalb von Institutionen oder in Bezug auf Ressourcen. Damit rücken nicht nur unterschiedliche kuratorische Modelle, sondern auch unterschiedliche Modelle der Wissensproduktion in den Fokus. Künstlerische Forschung und Zusammenarbeit zwischen Akademien, Kunstinstitutionen, Studierenden, Expert: innen Kuratorische Präsentationsformen, Forschungs- und Dokumentationsprozesse, progressive Bildungsmethodik Beiträge von Ruth Anderwald / Leonhard Grond, Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Maria Lantz, Barbara Putz-Plecko, Johan Thom u. a.

Prison Elite
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Prison Elite

Prison Elite depicts the life of a VIP prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp system, providing a first-hand account of his mental life and coping strategies.

Images Performing History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

Images Performing History

The operative role of the photographic media in making and remaking history History is increasingly made in images, not only because its records are largely photographic but also because our ideas about the past are formed in visual terms. This book offers a discussion of contemporary art practices which question the received notions of historical representations after the pivotal changes of 1989 in Europe. These art practices reveal, in different ways, the operative role of the photographic media in making and remaking history. Not limited to a particular artistic medium, they demonstrate how history is forged through enacting or re-enacting its past forms, while, on the other hand, they indicate how copying and quoting can contribute to creating a new, operative aesthetics. By foregrounding a performative character of images, art is shown to construct an alternative knowledge of the past. Among others the works of the following artists are discussed in this book: Zofia Kulik, Yael Bartana, Harun Farocki and Andrej Ujică, Luc Tuymans, Dierk Schmidt.

Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust

This book explores the confrontation of radically assimilated Jews with the violent collapse of their envisioned integration into a cosmopolitan European society, which culminated during the Holocaust. This confrontation is examined through the biography of the German-speaking intellectual and prominent communist theoretician of the Jewish question Otto Heller (1897–1945), focusing on the tension between his Jewish origins and his universalistic political convictions. Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust traces the development of Hellerʼs position on the Jewish question in three phases: how he grew up to become a typical Central European "non-Jewish Jew" (1897–1931); how he became exceptional in that category by focusing his intellectual work on the Jewish question (1931–1939); and how he reacted to the persecution and murder of European Jewry as a member of the Resistance in occupied France and in Auschwitz (1939–1945). Breaking with the common portrayal of Heller as a self-hating Jew, Tom Navon argues instead that Heller came to lay the foundations for the groundbreaking recognition by communists of worldwide Jewish national solidarity.