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    WORKSHOP on Hannah Arendt’s political thinking, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

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    March 11, 2019 – March 26, 2019 Vienna Workshop:
    on Hannah Arendt’s political thinking

    Workshop with Ruth Kager and the students of the Art Studio for Post-conceptual Art Practices (PCAP) and the students in general of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, at AkBild, Vienna.

    Hannah Arendt’s political thought centers around a political space that draws on common action. Starting from this insight, each session of the workshop is dedicated to one of Arendt’s basic notions: the public realm, the societal and the private, action, power and judging. Building on these notions, the workshop investigates the constraints and potentialities of politics as thought by Arendt.

    The contents are elaborated interactively, based on the sources below. The following questions will guide, amongst others, plenary discussions and group activities.

    11/3/2019 // INTRODUCTION // THE PUBLIC REALM
    What is the public realm?
    Sources:
    Arendt, Hannah (1973) [1958], The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 50-57.
    Arendt, Hannah (2010) [1960], Vita activa oder Vom tätigen Leben (München: Piper), 62-73.

    12/3/2019 // THE SOCIETAL AND THE PRIVATE
    What are the relations between the social, the private and the public realm?
    Sources:
    Arendt, Hannah (1973) [1958], The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 68-72.
    Arendt, Hannah (2010) [1960], Vita activa oder Vom tätigen Leben (München: Piper), 81-89.

    18/3/2019 // ACTION
    What are the characteristics of action?
    How is action connected to politics?
    Sources:
    Arendt, Hannah (1973) [1958], The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 175-180.
    Arendt, Hannah (2010) [1960], Vita activa oder Vom tätigen Leben (München: Piper), 213-222.

    19/3/2019 // POWER
    What is the difference between power and violence?
    How is power connected to different forms of government?
    Sources:
    Arendt, Hannah (1973) [1958], The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 199-206.
    Arendt, Hannah (2010) [1960], Vita activa oder Vom tätigen Leben (München: Piper), 251-262.

    26/3/2019 // THE DESTRUCTION OF POLITICAL POWER // JUDGING
    How is political power destructed?
    What is judging?
    Sources:
    Arendt, Hannah (1951), The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt Brace), 123-134.
    Arendt, Hannah (2014) [1955], Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft. Antisemitismus, Imperialismus, totale Herrschaft (München: Piper) 286-307.
    Arendt, Hannah (1961), “The Crisis in Culture. Its Social and Its Political Significance”, in: ibid., Between Past and Future: Six Exercises in Political Thought (New York: Viking), 217-226.
    Arendt, Hannah (2012) [1960], “Kultur und Politik”, in: dies., Zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft. Übungen im politischen Denken I, herausgegeben von Ursula Ludz (München: Piper), 296-302.

    Online Artist Talk Series 2021 “Stories of Traumatic Pasts”

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    All events will be held in English. The events will take place online!
    Registration: info@weltmuseumwien.at

    Adela Jušić in conversation with Marina Grzinić
    Friday, February 19, 2021, 04:30 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rom, Stockholm, Wien

    Adela Jušić was born on 1982 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Jušić has exhibited in more than 100 international exhibitions (Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain; Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Image Counter Image, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, Balkan Insight, Pompidou Center, Paris). In 2010 she won Young Visual Artist Award for the best young Bosnian artist in 2010, Henkel Young Artist Price Central and Eastern Europe in 2011, and Special award of Belgrade October Salon in 2013.

    Martin Krenn in conversation with Marina Grzinić
    Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 07:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rom, Stockholm, Wien

    Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe in conversation with Marina Grzinić
    Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 07:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rom, Stockholm, Wien

    • Adela Jušić and Marina Grzinić , zoom 19.2.2021
    • Adela Jušić and Marina Grzinić, zoom 19.2.2021
    • Adela Jušić, Marina Grzinić and Sophie Uitz, zoom 19.2.2021

    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.

    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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    GoA LECTURE SERIES at PCAP, Vienna Academy of Fine Arts

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    A series of three lectures by Marina Grzinic and Sophie Uitz is held during the summer term 2018 at the Post-Conceptual Art Practices study programme (Vienna Academy of Fine Arts). Each of the lecture includes a screening of documentary film and introduces one of the three research territories of the “Genealogy of Amnesa” to the students.

     

    Part I
    Belgian Colonialism in the Congo
    23 April 2018, 4-7 PM

    Presentation of the research project “Genealogy of Amnesia: Rethinking the Past for a New Future of Conviviality”, by Marina Grzinic and Sophie Uitz.

    Introduction, screening and discussion of “King Leopold’s Ghost” (2006, 108min, documentary) by Pippa Scott and Oreet Rees – a documentary about the exploitation of the Congo by King Leopold II of Belgium, based on the book by Adam Hochschild King Leopold Ghost from 1998.

    Part II
    The Yugoslavian War
    14 May 2018, 4-7 PM

    Introduction, screening and discussion of Valentini Areh’s documentary “Radovan Karadzic’s Secret Plans” (2016, 51min, documentary for television).

    The TV film shows newly retrieved materials and accounts obtained at the trial of Radovan Daradzic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Hague Tribunal. The documentary was premiered two days before the final sentence to Karadzic at the Haag Tribunal, 24 March 2016. Karadzic was sentenced to fourty years for Srebrenica genocide in BiH, Amont other criminal acts.

    Valentin Areh is a Slovenian journalist, war correspondent and writer. He participated in 1991 as a soldier in the short Slovenian war for independence. He subsequently attended Ljubljana University, studying history and sociology. Areh has fiftenn years of experience as a war correspondent in places such as Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Iraq. He was one of the few journalists to remain in Kosovo during the Kosovo War of 1999 and he survived a tortuous escape out of the country during NATO’s war to expel Serbian forces.

    Part III
    Remembrance and oblivion of Nazi crimes in Austria
    4 June 2018, 4-7 PM

    Screening of “Night and Fog” (French original title: Nuit et brouillard; 1956, 32min, documentary short film). Directed by Alain Resnais, it was made ten years after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. The title is taken from the notorious “Nacht und Nebel” (German for “Night and Fog”) program of abductions and disappearances decreed by the Nazis on 7 December 1941.

    Screening of “East of War” (German original title: Jenseits des Krieges; 1996), a film by Ruth Beckermann (cinematography Peter Roehsler, editing Gertraud Luschützky).
    White-tiled rooms, neon lighting; on the walls black and white photographs documenting the atrocities committed by the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front in WW2. Against this background former soldiers talk about their experiences beyond the bounds of “normal” warfare. An uncompromising film on remembrance and oblivion. Ruth Beckermann’s film doesn’t duplicate the exhibition, but begins where it ends: in a commentary. Its subject-matter is less about history than remembering, less about the past than the present.

    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