Bildhauerei und RaumstrategienKatinka 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 […]
Éric Baudelaire Éric Baudelaire: make, do, with 5 December 2023 Éric Baudelaire’s works are often made in collaboration with the people whose experiences they explore — avant-garde artists, teenagers, secessionists and terrorists, all of whom have defied the institutions that assert the right to define the realities they live in. Their stories of resistance and entangled […]
Judy Radul Framing With Waves 11 December 2023 At the same time as AI is bringing “intelligence” into question, it seems that across a wide range of knowledges and ways of knowing (epistemologies)we are trying to shift some of our long held and culturally determined beliefs and values about what exists, what is important, what […]
Jill Magid Technology of Enchantment 8 November 2023 The content of the discussion is to unpack a conceit Cuahtemoc Medina has posited about Magid’s work. He wrote, “In fact, unlike most forms of artistic production, to a great extent the content of the work consists less of images, objects or artifacts, than of the exchanges […]
Emily Wardill The Imagined Image 6 October 2023 For this seminar, Wardill will be focussing on her three most recent works: Identical – exhibited at KW, Berlin this year. Sleep Patterns and Musical Chairs – currently on show at Casa Sao Roque in Porto. Night for Day – shown at Secession, Vienna in 2020. Required Reading and Viewing: […]
Fahim Amir At the Gates of Utopia: Nature, Art, Solidarity 7 June 2023 In this talk I want to share some thoughts about problems, practices and questions that I’ve been involved in over the past few years. These include making sense of the dystopian qualities of inhabiting paracolonial life worlds, and of their legacies and […]
Rijin Sahakian You Don’t Make it Public: On Selection and Severance 10 May 2023 Discussion around exhibitions and artist-led boycotts in recent years has focused on the plausible deniability of curators, debates over degrees of political culpability, and/or the limits of representation. These questions often obfuscate and by-pass the mechanisms by which cultural productions are […]