Bildhauerei und RaumstrategienEric Michaud Propaganda, Art & Advertising : How to Produce the Future 9 May 2025 The role played by images in propaganda is generally considered to be a deliberate lie involving the falsification of a supposedly “objective” reality. I believe instead that one should consider propaganda as an instrument for the construction of reality. Just like art […]
Eran Schaerf Back to the Following. Beginings of the Levantine Revolution 8 May 2025 (IBK lecture series/Ringvorlesung) “They were Levantine enough to know that a person, however worthless, counts more than principles, however sacred.” Who are they? What does it mean to be Levantine enough? How can Levantine knowledge be acquired? Who presumes to consider […]
Rasha Salti On Seeing and Archives: Thinking Historically and Critically 14 April 2025 Past Disquiet looks at a chapter in our modern history where militants could not imagine conducting their struggle without artists and artists were fully engaged in political struggles. Historisizing images and documents implies exploring their production as well as their dissemination, and this is […]
Stephanie Weber On exhibition in Lenbachhaus, Munich (But Live Here? No Thanks: Surrealism and Anti-fascism) 17 March 2025 “If someone tells us that our era has other worries on its mind than to write poems, we respond “So do we!” This typically ambiguous statement by the surrealist poetry and Trotskyist resistance group La Main à plume, […]
18 October 2024 This workshop invite you to explore making, un/learning, repurposing process and training technicality of unknown possibilities of discarded objects and found object. The objective of the workshop is to gain an understanding of the fundamental techniques involved in assemblage, including the ability to create connections and disconnections between components, as well as […]
Katinka Bock Lecture at Symposium: Red Threads Loose Ends 17 October 2024 https://www.akbild.ac.at/en/institutes/fine-arts/events/conferences/2024/red-threads-loose-ends-another-sculpture-is-possible?set_language=en Katinka Bock’s work is rooted in a discursive thought of sculpture and language. The shape is often a result of a working process where the rational and the unforeseen meet each other. She develops a body of work in sculpture, installation and […]
Morad Montazami Black gold or curse: investigating petro-modernities and the hypothesis of a post-oil visual culture 5 December 2024 The recent paradigm of petro-modernity takes oil as a political catalyst through expropriation, coups d’état or movements to nationalise oil, in the 20th c., beside an intermedia tool for its ability to link architecture, cinema, literature and art […]
Larne Abse Gogarty Tinkering, Salvaging, Scavenging 11 November 2024 In this seminar I want to explore ideas of tinkering, salvage, scavenging. I am particularly interested in thinking about artworks and literary examples of materials, objects and stories being used in the “wrong” way and how this creates a certain kind of temporality which might be […]
17 April 2024 From Resonance to SilenceIn the workshop we will explore, listen and experience the different sonic structures connected to space (closed & public). After a practical exploration of site-specific sound reflections and the resonant frequencies of the lecture room, we will – after an ear cleaning session – focus on listening in public […]
10 June 2024 A richly nuanced intermediate realm of weakness, a liminal space of neutralized extremes, extends between power and powerlessness.”… “The elimination of the powerful binary attributions unlocks an entire spectrum of gradations and intermediate forms. Nuances come into view instead of the usual polarities; attention turns to subtleties rather than extremes” writes Kathrin […]