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 Format: reading group, discussions, conceiving art works based on art and theory connection Organized by Ivana Marjanović, PhD candidate, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and students PCAP, Akbild, Vienna Students presenting chapters: Aleksanda Aleksić, Branko Andrić, Anamarija Batista, Sarah Binder, Annalisa Cannito, Miltiadis Gerothanasis, Chui Yong Jian, Elisabeth Lnenicka, Marissa Lobo, Majda Turkić, Regina Wuzella

Working schedule: 13.01.2010, Wednesday Semper depot, M1 At 20.00 untill 23.00

15.01.2010, Friday Semper depot, M1 At 20.00 untill 23.00

22.01.2010, Friday Semper depot, M1 At 14.00 until 17.00

Saturday, 23.01.2010 Semper depot, M1 At 12.00 until 17.00

27.01.2010 Wednesday Semper depot, M1 At 16.00 until 20.00

FRANTZ FANON (1925-1961) 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. 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.