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    LECTURE at MACBA Seminar in Barcelona

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    Marina Grzinić, Memory and History and the act of remembering

    February 16, 2018

    at Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA),16-17.2.2018, Seminar, The Boundary Condition. About the archive and its limits

    Lecture Summary

    In the time of neoliberal global necrocapitalism we are increasingly confronted with a political and social amnesia that profits without the past, producing more and more processes of de-historicization and de-politicisation. Central to these processes is the logic of (neoliberal) repetition that produces at least two different procedures of (de)historicization. On one side we have the logic of the neoliberal Western world that works as a pure trans-historical machine, and on the other, in the East and in the South of Europe, we detect forced techniques of embracing historicization as totalization. In both cases the result is a suspension of history that works with a primary intention to dispose of any alternative within it! My idea is to provide some examples, and, more, to try to define these processes on a much wider scale in order to see their political, social and cultural consequences.

    The presentation is based on the new insights provided by the research project I am in charge of at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, with the title “Genealogy of Amnesia: Rethinking the Past for a New Future of Conviviality” (funded through the Programme for Arts-based Research PEEK, by the FWF, Austrian Science Fund, in the period from 2018 to 2020).

    CATALOGUE: Stories of Traumatic Pasts: Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Turbo-Nationalism

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    Edited by Marina Gržinić, Jovita Pristovšek, Sophie Uitz, and Christina Jauernik

    Hatje Cantz, Berlin, Germany; Weltmuseum Wien, Austria; Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria; Peek Project No. AR 439-G24/IBK, 2020, ISBN 978-3-7757-4884-1, 204pp.

    Published on the occasion of the exhibition Stories of Traumatic Pasts: Counter-Archives for Future Memories, at Weltmuseum Wienfrom 8 October 2020 to 3 April 2021.

    About the catalogue

    Belgian colonialism in the Congo. Antisemitism in Austria. Turbo-nationalism in former Yugoslavia. Over the last two centuries, these three historic lines of violence and annihilation (re)enforced a process of oblivion that to this day prevents a processing of the genocides they caused. Today involuntary or performed amnesia again threatens to destroy what has already come to a point of possible coexistence.

    ­We go back to these traumatic events in history and the recent past, which had such a violent impact on communities and people, states and territories, and confront them with a system of interventions. The scars that remain after atrocities, although hidden and obliterated, are recovered through artistic, scientific, and political reflections.

    EXHIBITION Stories of Traumatic Pasts. Counter-Archives for Future Memories

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    at Weltmuseum Wien
    October 8th, 2020 to April 3rd, 2021

    Curated by Marina Gržinić, Christina Jauernik and Sophie Uitz

    Trailer-teaser of the exhibition in Weltmuseum Wien

    The exhibition Stories of Traumatic Pasts: Counter-Archives for Future Memories focuses on three European regions, their stories, and their current experiences of collective amnesia in relation to traumatic events from the past: Belgian colonial rule in the Congo, Austria after the “Anschluss” in 1938, and the denial of war crimes since 1990 after the breakup of Yugoslavia.

    Participating artists
    Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe
    Lana Čmajčanin
    Bojan Djordjev
    Dani Gal
    Siniša Ilić
    Adela Jušić
    Martin Krenn
    Monique Mbeka Phoba
    Nicolas Pommier
    Anja Salomonowitz
    Joëlle Sambi Nzeba
    Arye Wachsmuth
    Valerie Wolf Gang

    Posters and works developed by students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (workshop with Arye Wachsmuth):
    Negra Bernhard
    Henrie Dennis
    Iklim Doğan
    Robert Jolly
    Lars* Kollros
    Shaya Safaisini
    Hiba Shammout
    Sophie Anna Stadler
    Pia S. Weissinger
    Ondrej Zoricak

    The digital archive: COUNTERING THE GENEALOGY OF AMNESIA

    7.10.2020 Opening speeches and performance
    (closed for public due to Covid-19)

    Speeches: C. Schicklgruber (director Weltmuseum Wien), J. Hartle (rector Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), S. Uitz and M. Gržinić (curators). Opening  performance by Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe and  Mani Obeya.

    8.10.2020 Symposium
    (closed for public due to Covid-19)

    Taking part in situ or via zoom:

    Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe
    Lana Čmajčanin
    Bojan Djordjev
    Dani Gal
    Siniša Ilić
    Adela Jušić
    Martin Krenn
    Nicolas Pommier
    Anja Salomonowitz
    Joëlle Sambi Nzeba
    Arye Wachsmuth
    Valerie Wolf Gang
    Lars* Kollros
    Mika Maruyama
    Shaya Safaisini
    Pia Weissinger

    Moderation by Marina Gržinić
    Organisation by Sophie Uitz

    Weltmuseum Wien
    Heldenplatz, 1010 Vienna
    Tel. +43 1 534 30-5052
    info@weltmuseumwien.at
    www.weltmuseumwien.at

    Opening hours
    Open daily, except Wednesdays, 10 am to 6 pm
    Late Fridays until 9 pm: 30 October, 27 November



    GoA SYMPOSIUM in Vienna: Genealogy of Amnesia – Crushing Silences, Constructing Histories

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    (image: Christina Jauernik)

    November 8-10, 2018

    A symposium on the silencing of colonialism, anti-Semitism, and contemporary turbo-fascist nationalism in Belgium, Austria, and former Yugoslavia.

    The international and interdisciplinary symposium, open to public audiences, is built as a podium for research and exchange, dissemination of knowledge, and discussion.

    The two-day-long symposium hosted invited speakers that cover the central topics of our research in the three respective territories: memory and history, archives, and the axis of power and knowledge. The general objective of the symposium was to denote gaps between processes of institutionalized silencing, hegemonic processes of oblivion and amnesia, and processes of instituting power through building counter-memory and counter-history projects, interventions, and resistance. The aim was to demonstrate how processes for the establishment of counter-memory and counter-history can open up spaces for new ways of forming radicalized constituent politics. Collective struggles and oppositionality were investigated as the basis of a possible dismantling of neoliberal and necrocapitalist societies by means of re-empowering history that crushes silences.

    For full symposium program and details click here

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    LECTURE at East-Central European Art Forum Conference in Poznań

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    Marina Gržinić, The Postsocialist and Postcolonial Conditions as Features of a Conceptualization of a “New” Geography

    October 27, 2018

    at East-Central European Art Forum, 26-27.10.2018,
    Conference: Theorizing the Geography of East-Central European Art

    organized by Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research on East-Central European Art

    Lecture Summary

    The postsocialist and postcolonial conditions as features of a conceptualization of a “new” geography

    The proposal is to rethink geography as a process that comes out  from the post-1989. Why?  At that moment we have the appearance of two conditions, of two posts that coincide largely speaking geographically in Europe and that can subsumed, according to David Harvey writings in the 1980s,  as “urbanization of capital and urbanization of consciousness.” This double process is vital to capitalism’s survival as a dominant mode of production and consumption. Let’s state that this urbanization is a perverse cosmopitanism that Piotr Piotrowski (Piotrowski, “From the international to the Cosmopolitan” (2012)), sees as the possible approach to East and Central Europe today.  Therefore my proposal claims that geography can better be captured as the joint process of these two conditions postsocialist and postcolonial than divisions we used for the last decades in the former Eastern European context: East-West, center-periphery, etc. As well the question that we will enter is how the postcolonial enters the post-socialist of the East-Central Europe geography of today. My question is how these traumatic nodal points produced, executed and governed by and within Europe transform the perception of art, geography, topography, memory and history in the present moment. The elaboration is based on the new insights provided by the research project I am in charge at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with the title “Genealogy of Amnesia: Rethinking the Past for a New Future of Conviviality” (funded through the Programme for Arts-based Research (PEEK), inside the FWF, Austrian Science Fund, in the period from 2018 to 2020).

    LECTURE at Graz Symposion on Photography

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    Marina Gržinić, Images of Violence, or the Violence of Neoliberal Necrocapitalism

    October 5, 2018

    at Camera Austria Symposion on Photography XXI, 5-6.10.2018,
    Die Gewalt der Bilder / The Violence of Images

    Lecture Summary

    Images with violent content are always historical, as what is seen as violent is constructed and is violently managed; therefore nothing is natural in relation to violence. What will be defined as violent is always an outcome of violent hegemonic processes. Seeing images of killings can provoke our rebellion and our insurgencies, unless we are paralyzed by our normativized occidental lives. Europe and the global neoliberal capitalist system in general are well attuned to the hierarchization, control, and management processes of the present neoliberal capitalist states. Especially under attack are migrants and all those not considered to be “natural” parts of the neoliberal capitalist national body in the West: asylum-seekers and refugees escaping war-torn parts of the global world (the Middle  East, Africa), from conflicts induced by capital and imperial management.

    On the other side and at the same time, we can see, for example, the last election campaign in Austria, with posters by the Freedom Party (FPÖ) containing blatantly racist and fascist slogans and images. My interest is to connect racism with visual narratives, “trophy” artifacts, and culture. I will look at racism from a historical perspective, showing a horrifying trajectory of structural racism that reproduces itself almost always circularly from a pseudoscientific (biological) racism, “progressing” toward “cultural racism” to “return” again to “scientific racism,” though then coined “intellectual racism.”

    Online Lecture “Stories of Traumatic Pasts”

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    Marina Grzinić, Stories of Traumatic Pasts

    Held on fairteaching.net
    November 19, 2020
    16-17 PM

    Lecture Summary

    The exhibition Stories of Traumatic Pasts, curated by Marina Gržinić, Christina Jauernik and Sophie Uitz is on view at the Weltmuseum Wien until April 3, 2021.

    The exhibition focuses on three European regions, their stories, and their current experiences of collective amnesia in relation to traumatic events from the past: Belgian colonial rule in the Congo, Austria after the “Anschluss” in 1938, and the denial of war crimes since 1990 after the breakup of Yugoslavia.

    Marina Gržinić, will have a lecture on the exhibition, take the audience for a travelogue on the concept and contexts of the show, participating artists, and future perspectives.

    The online lecture will be held in English. Follow this link https://fairteaching.net/b/khm-7×9-cfm!

    Prof. Dr. Marina Gržinić is a philosopher, theoretician, and artist from Ljubljana, Slovenia. She serves as a professor and research adviser. Since 2003, she is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is project leader of the research whose full title is “Genealogy of Amnesia: Rethinking the Past for a New Future of Conviviality” carried out as a transdisciplinary project No. AR 439-G24/IBK funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and developed at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, from 2018 to 2020. The exhibition is part of the research project.

    In cooperation with Vienna Art Week and Weltmuseum Wien.

     

    Honorary Mention of the 2022 Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity

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    Marina Gržinić, Jovita Pristovšek, Sophie Uitz have received the Honorary Mention of the 2022 Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity for their work Digital Research Travelogues through European Archives!

    Digital Research Travelogues through European Archives creates an interdisciplinary platform for art and science to explore the current politics of forgetting in relation to three traumatic events of the 20th century: Belgium (colonialism in the Congo), Austria (antisemitism in World War II and the post-war period), and the former Yugoslavia (turbo-nationalism, Srebrenica genocide). The platform departs from the research conducted as part of the FWF-PEEK project Genealogy of Amnesia: Rethinking the Past for a New Future of Conviviality (AR 439). It was presented as a digital format to promote emancipatory politics in the humanities through the 2020-2021 exhibition at the Weltmuseum Wien, Austria. It consisted of 42 interviews presented as 42 posters with QR codes. This part of the exhibition was a unique artistic-scientific and collaborative research work, presented as an interactive digital installation. The 42 QR codes were divided into three sections, each with a description and content, and accessible to the viewer via mobile phone. Each user could listen to the interviews in English. As a second level of interaction, an interactive table was presented in the exhibition space, allowing the viewer to spend hours exploring the connections between the three sections presented in parallel through images and texts, as a kind of double index, footnotes and hypertexts through European trauma histories. 

    Credits: Marina Gržinić, Jovita Pristovšek, Sophie Uitz, and contributors © FWF-PEEK AR 439, Weltmuseum Wien, 2021/22. In collaboration with: Šefik Tatlić, Valerija Zabret, researchers, artists, activists. With support from: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, various NGOs across Europe

    Book chapter: “Racialized violence in Europe: The Genealogy of Amnesia Project and the immobilization of refugees?” (by Marina Gržinić)

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    Marina GRŽINIĆ:  Racialized violence in Europe: The Genealogy of Amnesia Project and the immobilization of refugees? In: PERERA, Suvendrini (ed.), PUGLIESE, Joseph (ed.). Mapping deathscapes : digital geographies of racial and border violence. London; New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 148-162, ilustr. Routledge research in digital humanities. ISBN 978-1-032-05657-9. DOI: 10.4324/9781003200611-15. 

    Book Description

    This volume offers a critical and creative analysis of the innovations of Deathscapes, a transnational digital humanities project that maps the sites and distributions of custodial deaths in locations such as police cells, prisons and immigration detention centres.

    An international team of authors take a multidisciplinary approach to questions of race, geographies of state violence and countermaps of resistance across North America, Australia and Europe. The book establishes rich lines of dialogic connection between digital and other media by incorporating both traditional scholarly resources and digital archives, databases and social media. Chapters offer a comprehensive mapping of the key attributes through which racial violence is addressed and contested through digital media and articulate, in the process, the distinctive dimensions of the Deathscapes site.

    This interdisciplinary volume will be an important resource for scholars, students and activists working in the areas of Cultural Studies, Media and Visual Studies, Indigenous Studies, Refugee Studies and Law.

    https://www.routledge.com/Mapping-Deathscapes-Digital-Geographies-of-Racial-and-Border-Violence/Perera-Pugliese/p/book/9781032056579

    Online BOOK LAUNCHES

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    Presentation and discussion with the editors of the three recent publications of the “Genealogy of Amnesia” project research.

    All 2020 presentations are held online due to restricted mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Booklaunch Sarajevo

    22.12.2020, 18.00h
    Association for Culture and Art, Crvena, Sarajevo / ZOOM

    Presentations by:
    Marina Gržinić, professor, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    Jovita Pristovšek, Šefik Tatlić, postdoc researchers, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

    The program will be held in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian.

    Booklaunch Vienna

    19.11.2020, 19.00 h
    Depot Wien / ZOOM

    Presentations by:
    Marina Gržinić, professor, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    Jovita Pristovšek, Šefik Tatlić, Sophie Uitz, postdoc researchers, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

    Booklaunch Zagreb

    15.10.2020, 19.00 h
    Multimedia Institute/MaMa, Zagreb, Croatia / ZOOM
    Organized by Lina Gonan and MaMa

    Presentations by:
    Marina Gržinić, professor, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    Jovita Pristovšek, Šefik Tatlić, postdoc researchers, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

    The program will be held in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian.

    Booklaunch Belgrade

    29.09.2020, 19.00 h
    Centre for Cultural Decontamination CZKD, Belgrade, Serbia / ZOOM
    Organized by Aleksandra Sekulić and CZKD  (director: Ana Miljanić)

    Presentations by:
    Marina Gržinić, professor, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    Jovita Pristovšek, Šefik Tatlić, postdoc researchers, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

    The program will be held in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian.

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