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    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.

     

    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).

    SYMPOSIUM: Performative Digital LAB/Zoom-presentations

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    BUILDING NEW VOCABULARIES OF RESISTANCE. Screening, lectures, performative interventions

    November 11-12, 2020
    12.00 to 16.00 (CET/Vienna time)

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    The art-research project “Genealogy of Amnesia” (FWF-PEEK Project, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) in cooperation with Österreichisches Filmmuseum andkulturen in bewegung, an initiative by VIDC, Vienna, announces a collaborative two days of screenings, lectures, performative lab situations onto the topic of evaluating film and video languages to oppose discrimination, epistemic violence, invisibilized realities, lost memories, and closed archives. The two days lab situations will be going on with filmmakers, curators, students, and the younger generation of film and video artists and Viennese activist communities. New film languages will be discussed through processes of changing established narratives and imperial knowledge.

    • Nevline Nnaji
    • Presentation by Nevline Nnaji
    • Tjasa Kancler
    • Presentation Tjasa Kancler
    • Sasa Kesic
    • Presentation Sasa Kesic
    • Iklim Dogan
    • Presentation Iklim Dogan
    • Mai Ling
    • Mika Maruyama
    • Presentation Mai Ling
    • Presentation Mai Ling
    • Christoph Kolar
    • Presentation Christoph Kolar
    • Marina Grzinic
    • Marissa Lobo

    The first part is a two afternoons Digital LAB/Zoom-presentations by Tjaša Kancler (Barcelona), Saša Kesić (Belgrade), Christoph Kolar (AT), İklim Doğan (Turkey/AT), Mika Maruyama (Japan/AT) and Mai Lin (AT), Marissa Lobo (Brazil/AT) and Nevline Nnaji (USA/Germany).

    The second part is a two-night screening program at Österreichisches Filmmuseum with films by Selma Doborac (AT), Nevline Nnaji (USA/Germany), and Morgan Quaintance (UK).


    Trailer of the Performative Digital LAB (2020).

    Talk with Nevline Nnaji at performative film lab on November 12, 2020 on her  feature-length documentary Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights  (US, 2013, 81 min.). Nevline Nnaji is a film director, pole dancer and multi-media artist from Northampton, MA., US.

    The collaborative film program presents a coming together of several partners: the Österreichisches Filmmuseum,the project “Smashing Wor(l)ds: Cultural Practices for re/Imagining & un/Learning Vocabularies,” supported by Creative Europe and led by kulturen in bewegung, an initiative by VIDC, and the art-research project “Genealogy of Amnesia” (FWF-PEEK Project AR 439, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna). It will be two days of intensive encounters of inspiring program of experimental, profoundly defiant film practices that oppose injustice, xenophobia, and systematic racist exclusions. (M. Gržinić)

    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.

    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).

    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 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.”

    PUBLICATION: Dialogues for the Future: Countering the Genealogy of Amnesia

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    Dialogues for the Future: Countering the Genealogy of Amnesia, edited by Marina Gržinić and Šefik Tatlić (in collaboration with Valerija Zabret, Jovita Pristovšek, Tjaša Kancler, and Sophie Uitz), Centre for Cultural Decontamination CZKD, Belgrade, Serbia; Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria; Peek Project No. AR 439-G24/IBK, 2020, ISBN 978-86-88001-19-9 (CZKD), 312pp.

    Download free ebook version here

    The book Dialogues for the Future: Countering the Genealogy of Amnesia arose from the research carried out by the PEEK Project No. AR 439-G24/IBK, whose full title is “Genealogy of Amnesia: Rethinking the Past for a New Future of Conviviality.” This is an interdisciplinary arts-and-theory-based research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and developed at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, from 2018 to 2020. During this time, we created an online video archive entitled “Countering the Genealogy of Amnesia.” It consists of seventy hours comprising eighty-two interviews/positions as well as the recordings of the symposium “GENEALOGY OF AMNESIA: Crushing Silences, Constructing Histories” held at the mumok in 2018, Vienna, thus tying together the three sites that constitute the “Genealogy of Amnesia”: Belgium, Austria, and Bosnia and Herzegovina/Croatia/Serbia and “Republika Srpska.”

    This book comprises sixty-six interviews in the form of deep reflections concerning territories and histories of genocides, dispossession, racism, antisemitism, turbo-nationalism, discrimination, silencing, oblivion: Belgium, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina/Croatia/Serbia and “Republika Srpska,” Slovenia and Spain.

    We hope this book will contribute to establishing links between the antagonization of racism/fascism and the critique of (neoliberal) global necrocapitalism as a colonial, racial system of dominance. It means that we are calling for the severing of ties between Eurocentric epistemology and its monopoly on the definition of class-sensitive, as well as feminist and LGBT*QI discourses.

    Centre for Cultural Decontamination CZKD, Belgrade, Serbia
    Austrian Science Fund (FWF): AR439
    Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

    Online book launch at Centre for Cultural Decontamination / Belgrade, 20.9.2020

    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.