OCTOBER 2009 WORKING SCHEDULE

5 October 2009, Monday SEMPER DEPOT, M1

At 15.30 meeting in the class Discussion on the projects year exhibition 2009, opening 5.11.2009 Help to invited students from the class Class project with IKL in the exhibition

5 October 2009, Monday SEMPER DEPOT, M1

At 17.00 old and new students meeting Introduction new students Presentation of the work 2009/2010 Projects, seminars, discussion

5 October 2009, Monday At 19.30 individual meetings Grzinic Office Contact me for appointment Margrz@zrc-sazu.si

6 October 2009, Tuesday

8.30 individual meetings, Grzinic office 10.00 Curricula NC

6 October 2009, Tuesday SEMPER DEPOT, M1 At 15.30 until 18.00

Project “SEMINAR Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art” In charge: Ivana Marjanović, PhD candidate, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna For whom: for all, mandatory for students PCAP, Akbild, Vienna Format: reading group, discussions, conceiving art works based on art and theory connection

Reading and discussion: Frantz Fanon "The Wretched of the Earth", Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1961

Chapter “Concerning Violence” Students presenting parts of the chapter: Aleksandra Aleksic, Sarah Binder, Miltiadis Gerothanasis, Majda Turkić

FRANTZ FANON (1925-1961)

Algerian political theorist Frantz Fanon analyzed the nature of racism and colonialism and developed a theory of violent anti-colonial struggle. In his first book, Black Skin, White Masks (1952), Fanon examined the social and psychological processes by which the white colonizers alienated the black natives from any indigenous black culture; he showed that blacks were made to feel inferior because of their color and thus strove to emulate white culture and society. Fanon hoped that the old myths of superiority would be abandoned so that a real equality and integration could be achieved. Alienated from the dominant French culture, (except of connection with Sartre and some others), Fanon deeply identified with Algeria's revolutionary struggle for independence. He had secretly aided the rebels from 1954 to 1956, when he resigned from the hospital post to openly work for the Algerian revolutionaries' National Liberation Front (FLN) in Tunis. He worked on the revolutionaries' newspaper, becoming one of the leading ideologists of the revolution, and developed a theory of anti-colonial struggle in the "third world."

Using Marxist, psychoanalytic, and sociological analysis, Fanon summed up his views in The Wretched of the Earth (1961), arguing that only a thorough, truly socialist revolution carried out by the oppressed peasantry (the wretched of the earth) could bring justice to the colonized. He believed that the revolution could only be carried out by violent armed conflict; only revolutionary violence could completely break the psychological and physical shackles of a racist colonialism. Violence would regenerate and unite the population by a "collective catharsis;" out of this violence a new, humane man would arise and create a new culture. Through all this Fanon stressed the need to reject Europe and its culture and accomplish the revolution alone.

The project “Seminar Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art” is conceptualized as a continuation of the theory reading group that was organized in the past summer semester in 2009 in the Post-conceptual Art Practices class by Marina Gržinić and Ivana Marjanović. The theory reading group has proved that there is a growing interest by students for reading theory and discussing it in the format of reading group and thus the idea of organizing a special seminar appeared.

Schedule will be updated every month on m1.antville.org. Students are invited to join at any point.

6 October 2009, Tuesday At 19.00 meeting at OPEN SPACE, Vienna Or going together there, meeting in the class at 18.30, taking a U-Bahn

Visiting the exhibition “A step to the right” Participant Artists: Songül Boyraz, Petja Dimitrova, Alban Muja Talk with Songül Boyraz, Petja Dimitrova.

ADDRESS: OPEN SPACE/ ZENTRUM FÜR KUNSTPROJEKTE Lassingleithnerplatz 2, 1020 Vienna U-bahn: Schwedenplatz

12 to 16 October 2009, Monday to Friday SEMPER DEPOT, M1 Seminar on film by prof. Farocki From to 10.00 to 18.00 (check his www)

15 October 2009, Thursday AULA Akbild, Schillerplaz At 16.00 First meeting of the Seminar “Plattform Geschichtspolitik” [Platform History Politics] The seminar is conceived and organized by Eduard Freudmann

Seminar description [ENGLISH] How are and how were different History Politics conducted at the Academy of Fine Arts? Until which extent were and are Colonialism, Fascism and National Socialism considered in the Academy? Where do gaps, ruptures, continuities occur? Which role plays dis-remembrance, repression, self-victimization? Which history-political manifestations exist at the Academy – and which do not exist?

These questions mark the start of the course – and thereby the beginning of establishing a continuing “Platform History Politics” at the Academy. They should be related to other questions that are to be developed. The critical examination of history-political processes in comparable institutions should raise the sensibility for a survey of the current state in the direct study and work environment. A preliminary visualization of traced habits and usualness, of oddities and tremendousness as well as of other remarkable [ab-]normalities, should initiate broader discussions about History Politics at the Academy.

“History Politics” is a literal translation of the German term “Geschichtspolitik” and used since there is no generally admitted translation existing. It refers to the fact that the construction of history and its political interpretation are immanent to history as such.

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Seminar description [DEUTSCH] Wie werden und wie wurden Geschichtspolitiken an der Akademie der bildenden Künste betrieben? Inwieweit wird und wurde dabei die Teilhabe an Kolonialismus, Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus eingeschlossen? Wo treten Lücken, wo Bruchlinien, wo Kontinuitäten auf? Welche Rollen spielen Vergessen, Verdrängen, Selbstviktimisierung? Welche geschichtspolitischen Manifestationen gibt es an der Akademie – und welche Manifestationen gibt es nicht?

Diese Fragen markieren den Beginn der Lehrveranstaltung – und damit der Etablierung einer kontinuierlichen „Plattform Geschichtspolitik“ an der Akademie. Sie sollen mit weiteren, zu erarbeitenden Fragen in Verbindung gesetzt werden. Die kritische Betrachtung exemplarischer geschichtspolitischer Prozesse an vergleichbaren Institutionen, soll die Sensibilität zur Bestandsaufnahme des Ist-Zustands im direkten Studien- und Arbeitsumfeld schärfen. Mit einer vorläufigen Sichtbarmachung aufgespürter Gepflogenheiten und Gewöhnlichkeiten, Kuriositäten und Ungeheuerlichkeiten, sowie anderweitig bemerkenswerter [Un-]Auffälligkeiten sollen breitere Diskussionen über Geschichtspolitiken an der Akademie angestoßen werden.

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15 October 2009, Thursday AULA Akbild, Schillerplaz At 18.30

Guest lecture by Ronen Eidelman (IL): Medinat Weimar

Part of the Seminar “Plattform Geschichtspolitik” [Platform History Politics] Conceived and organized by Eduard Freudmann

Medinat Weimar is an art project that created a movement to promote the idea of the Jewish state in Thuringia, Germany, with the city of Weimar as its capital. The movements goal is to convince the German people to call the Jews (and anyone else who wants to be one) to gather in Thuringia, a post-industrial area emptying more every year, and found there another Jewish state. One that would not only satisfy the need for a secure Jewish home, appease the Palestinian Israeli conflict, help the German with coming to terms with the past, but would also save Thuringia from its own bleak future. In the lecture Eidelman, the Movements' secretary, will present the Movement, explain the political and artistic context it was born in, as well as show other art projects he has created in the past that are related to the movement.

The lecture will be in English. medinatweimar.org

Ronen Eidelman is an artist, writer and activist engaged with linking art, culture and grassroots politics. Participated in many exhibitions and festivals, as well as creating independent projects in the public sphere. Born in New York City, grew up in Jerusalem and based in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel, Co-founder and editor of "Ma'arav" (www.maarav.org.il www.maarav.org.il ) leading online art and culture magazine from Israel. Graduate of the MFA program for "Public Art and New Artistic Strategies' at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany, and for more than ten years active in anti-occupation and anti-capitalist activists groups. Ronen likes hats and enjoys wearing many kinds. ronen.dvarim.com

19 October 2009, Monday SEMPER DEPOT, M1

14.00 until 15.30 New Students meeting with the assistants Dimitrova/Freudmann.

19 October 2009, Monday SEMPER DEPOT, M1 15.30 until 18.00 Project “SEMINAR Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art”

Reading and discussion: Frantz Fanon "The Wretched of the Earth", Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1961

Chapter “Concerning Violence” Students presenting parts of the chapter: Annalisa Cannito, Elisabeth Lnenicka, Marissa Lobo

Chapter “The Pitfalls of National Consciousness” Students presenting parts of the chapter: Chui Yong Jian, Barbara Wilding, Regina Wuzella

See blog with details, texts…

19 October 2009, Monday SEMPER DEPOT, M1 At 18.30 until 20.00

Presentation future diploma work (June 2010) By CAROLINA AGREDO

19 October 2009, Monday SEMPER DEPOT, M1 At 20.30 until 24.00

Presentation future diploma work (January 2010) By BRANKO ANDRIC

20 October 2009, Tuesday Grzinic office At 8.30 individual meetings At 10.00 curricula NG

At 14.00 Grzinic office Individual meetings Contact me for appointment

20 October 2009, Tuesday SEMPER DEPOT, M1 15.30 until 18.00 Project “SEMINAR Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art”

Reading and discussion: Frantz Fanon "The Wretched of the Earth", Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1961

Chapter “The Pitfalls of National Consciousness” Students presenting parts of the chapter: Chui Yong Jian, Barbara Wilding, Regina Wuzella

Chapter “Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom” Students presenting parts of the chapter: Branko Andric, Anamarija Batista

Chapter: Conclusion All students who presented chapters

See blog with details, texts…

20 October 2009, Tuesday SEMPER DEPOT, M1

At 19.00 Students presentation, work in process Andy Scherz Annalisa Cannito and Miltiadis Gerothanasis

22 October 2009, Thursday SEMPER DEPOT, M1 At 18.00

Meeting of the seminar “Plattform Geschichtspolitik”

26 October 2009 holiday

27 October 2009, Tuesday SEMPER DEPOT, M1 Going to exhibition with Petja Dimitrova.

29 October 2009, Thursday SEMPER DEPOT, M1 At 18.00

Meeting of the seminar “Plattform Geschichtspolitik”

2 November 2009 holiday Program starts 3 November, will be announced on 1 November 2009.