1, December 2010, Wednesday 15.00 to 16.00 individual meetings, office Grzinic 1, December 2010, Wednesday M1, at16.00 to 23.00 Workshop Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art. Conducted by guest lecturer Ivana Marjanovic, PhD candidate, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Topic in this semester is readings of the text form the class book project VOCABULARY OF DECOLONIALITY.

READINGS with discussion:

1. Ivan Jurica: „Der Drang nach Osten Parallels to Post-Colonialism and Coloniality within the Central European Space”

2. Eyal Danon: “Some Notes from an Encircled Society: the project Liminal Spaces and other case studies”

VOCABULARY OF DECOLONIALITY introduces the concept of decoloniality as an option for the contention of contemporary forms of subjugation under neo-liberal global capitalism that is based on historical colonialism and maintains continuities with it. Reading writers such as Frantz Fanon, bell hooks, Belinda Kazeem, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai, Walter Mignolo and Peggy Piesche and relating their ideas to the current state of capitalism, migration, racism, class, gender etc., the editors with the name “Editorial Group for Writing Insurgent Genealogies ” decided that it is necessary to reformulate the existing vocabulary and to re-propose new terminology and meaning connecting art and politics.

VOCABULARY OF DECOLONIALITY is a project initiated by the alumni and students of the Post-Conceptual Art Practices class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, PhD candidate Ivana Marjanović and Professor Marina Gržinić within the context of the project of theory and arts: “Seminar Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art” that has been organized in the class for Post Conceptual Art Practices class, Akbild, since 2009 by Ivana Marjanović. The Editorial Group for Writing Insurgent Genealogies consists of Carolina Agredo, Sheri Avraham, Iris Borovčnik, Annalisa Cannito, Miltiadis Gerothanasis, Niki Kubaczek, Marissa Lobo and Ivana Marjanović. The group was constituted through a hard process of reading, discussions and activation.

2 December 2010, Thursday M1, at 12.00 until 15.00 Plattform Geschichtspolitik Jour Fixe (general meeting), organized by Eduard Freudmann

2 December 2010, Thursday M1, at 16.00 to 19.00 Bratislava trip, resume and commentaries; Watching the video work by Isa Rosenberger, title “Espiral,” from 2010 that relates on the topic of the research trip, after discussion. 19.00 to 20.00 individual meetings, Grzinic office 6 December 2010, Monday M1, at 16.00 seminar KKPD by Petja Dimitrova

7 December 2010, Tuesday At 14-15.30h Ausstellungsraum der Wienbibliothek im Rathaus Eingang Lichtenfelsgasse 2 Stiege 6 (Lift), 1. Stock, 1010 Wien www.wienbibliothek.at GRENZPEGEL: KREATIVITÄT UND KONTROVERSEN MIGRANTISCHER MUSIKSZENEN Talk with the curator/s Fatih Aydoğdu, Ruby Sircar.

8 December 2010, Wednesday holiday, SEMPER DEPOT CLOSED

9 December 2010, Thursday M1, kitchen at 12.00 to 15.30 Work of the editorial board ONLY for the book class project Vocabulary of Decoloniality

9 December 2010, Thursday M1, at 15.30 to 23.00

Workshop Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art. Conducted by guest lecturer Ivana Marjanovic, PhD candidate, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Topic in this semester is readings of the text form the class book project VOCABULARY OF DECOLONIALITY. READINGS WITH SCREENINGS and discussion:

1. Jean Rouch: Les Maitres fous (1956)
2. Talk about Trinh Minh-Ha’s critical points on documentary works and ethnology
3. Tracey Moffatt: Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1990)
4. Regina Wuzella: “De-Colonising the Filmic Gaze – The In/Visible Trauma in Tracey Moffatt’s Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy”
5. Coco Fusco: “Thoughts about maps and spatial logic in the global present. Questioning the Frame”

VOCABULARY OF DECOLONIALITY introduces the concept of decoloniality as an option for the contention of contemporary forms of subjugation under neo-liberal global capitalism that is based on historical colonialism and maintains continuities with it. Reading writers such as Frantz Fanon, bell hooks, Belinda Kazeem, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai, Walter Mignolo and Peggy Piesche and relating their ideas to the current state of capitalism, migration, racism, class, gender etc., the editors with the name “Editorial Group for Writing Insurgent Genealogies ” decided that it is necessary to reformulate the existing vocabulary and to re-propose new terminology and meaning connecting art and politics.

VOCABULARY OF DECOLONIALITY is a project initiated by the alumni and students of the Post-Conceptual Art Practices class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, PhD candidate Ivana Marjanović and Professor Marina Gržinić within the context of the project of theory and arts: “Seminar Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art” that has been organized in the class for Post Conceptual Art Practices class, Akbild, since 2009 by Ivana Marjanović.

The Editorial Group for Writing Insurgent Genealogies consists of Carolina Agredo, Sheri Avraham, Iris Borovčnik, Annalisa Cannito, Miltiadis Gerothanasis, Niki Kubaczek, Marissa Lobo and Ivana Marjanović. The group was constituted through a hard process of reading, discussions and activation

13 December to 17 December, 2010, Monday to Friday Harun Farocki film class

20 December 2010 until 7 January 2011, HOLIDAYS IN THE ACADEMY

We start the 10.01.2011, Monday!!!!