Bildhauerei und RaumstrategienAna Teixeira Pinto Oh Man! Aggrieved Masculinity, Silicon Valley and the new Far-Right 10 June 2025 After the instant success of The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler wrote a short book that ends with his famous eulogy to a calcified roman soldier whose body was frozen in the line of duty. The text does not conjure triumph […]
Adelita Husni-Bey Porto Marghera 5 June 2025 (Lectures 4 Future) In this lecture, Adelita Husni-Bey will explore Porto Marghera, the former industrial port near Venice, as a powerful case study of intersecting crises—ecological collapse, extractive capitalism, and labor struggle. Once emblematic of Italy’s postwar industrial boom, Porto Marghera is now a deeply contested site, reflecting […]
Eric 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, […]
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 […]
Ina Blom Straight-line sensibilities and the question of following. 22 January 2024 The proliferation of straight lines in 20th Century art andarchitecture is typically associated with rational and universalist procedures and perspectives, and with the rise of industrial culture. In this lecture, which is based on my current book project, I will look at straight lines […]