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    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 recommendation and contribution by M. Gržinić: Tell me about yesterday tomorrow: About the Future of the Past

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    Edited by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Mirjam Zadoff (2021)  

    Tell me about yesterday tomorrow: About the Future of the Past

    Historical events and our knowledge of them mould our understanding of today’s world. The interdisciplinary authorship of this volume focuses on the connection between past and future. A bold and unusual publication whose approaches and themes extend from biographical experiences via intergenerational exchange to the discussion of current social phenomena.

    With contributions by M. Czollek, C. Deliss, S. Denny, G. Diez, B. Draney, L. Gillick, M. Gržinić, A. Huyssen, I. Küpeli, D. Lesage, C. Lorch, S. Lütticken, K. Müller, V.J. Müller, A. Pető, M. Rinck, D. Rupnow, P. Rypson, Ph. Sands, N. Schafhausen, D. Schöne, G. Schwarz, N. Sternfeld, N. Wahl, M. Zadoff.

    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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    Workshop, part of 25 years anniversary of maiz, Linz

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    October 12, 2019 Linz Workshop:
    25 years anniversary of maiz

    WORKSHOP, PART OF 25 YEARS ANNIVERSARY OF MAIZ

    Where: Altes Rathaus, Linz

    Date: 12.10.2019

    Taking part in the discussion: Rodrigo Cesar Benedetti, Chiara Benedetti, Michaela Lehofer, Nadja Meisterhans, Ursula M. Lücke, and Rubia Salgado

    WORKSHOP TITLE: Fighting racism, deconstructing white privilege-cultural interventions, artistic projects, political strategies

    Marina Gržinić in collaboration with Tjaša Kancler trans*activist, researcher

    In the workshop, we depart from the research we did, Tjaša Kancler trans*activists and me, on questions of knowledge resistance and trans*. Therefore in the first part of the workshop, I presented artistic projects that have contributed historically and currently to the production of discourses, activities, politics, labor, education in order to combat racism and structures of power. In the second part of the workshop, we discussed formats of racism, the processes of enduring racialization and modes of empowerment.

    Marina Gržinić is a philosopher, theoretician, and artist. Since 2003, she is Professor for Post-Conceptual Art Practices at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. She did a series of collaborative projects with Tjaša Kancler, trans* activist, artist, researcher, and associate professor at the University of Barcelona. Kancler is a co-editor of the journal Desde el margen (www.desde-elmargen.net).

    The workshop was recorded.

    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)

    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

    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).

    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.

    GoA WORKSHOP in Zagreb on Feminism Between Nation-states and Capitalism

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    May 27, 2019 Zagreb Workshop:
    Feminism Between Nation-states and Capitalism


    Workshop with Marina Gržinić, Šefik Tatlić, and the participants of the module Feminism Between Nation-states and Capitalism at Centre for Women’s Studies, Zagreb, Croatia

    Centre for Women’s Studies Zagreb is the first non-institutional educational center in Croatia. It was founded by a group of feminists, theorists, and scholars, peace activists, and artists in 1995. The Centre provides an interdisciplinary program and expert knowledge on women’s issues and is a meeting point for academic discourse, artistic practice, activist engagement. The Centre’s publishing program is focused on publishing the results of Croatian feminist research and theory, as well as translations of selected key feminist texts. Until today they have published more than 50 titles. The Centre’s feminist theoretical journal Treća – [The Third] was launched in 1998 and has been published annually ever since.

    The main quality of the Women’s Studies educational program is its interdisciplinarity and integrality. The program offers an insight into the diverse themes of feminism and gender studies, women’s culture and history, women’s rights and gender equality. During its 20 years of work, the Centre has seen more than 600 participants complete the educational program, and more than 1000 participants involved in various specialized programs.

    Module: Feminism Between Nation-states and Capitalism

    It is clear that what global capitalism brings in front of us is a necessity to revisit globally racist, homophobic, and discriminatory processes, not as simple identity differences but as processes that are entangled with capital, new media technology and with the change of the mode of life under capital’s brutal modes of racialization and exploitation.

    Lectures:

    • Marina Gržinić

    State nation, feminism, capitalism, memory, history

    Feminist perspective: from former Yugoslavia turbo fascism to neoliberal postmodern fascist Europe

    • Šefik Tatlić

    Nation-state, feminisms, capitalism

    Political analysis of memory and history in the space of former Yugoslavia

    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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