1.2 to 1.3.2012 WINTER HOLIDAYS

7.3. 2012 Wednesday At 16.00 until 22.00, M1 At 16.00 talk about the Rundgang program , Auction project, future planes

7.3. 2012 Wednesday At 19.00 IMAGES, HISTORIES, DISCOURSES, POLITICS FILM PROGRAM: BAMAKO, 2006, 115 minutes, Mali/France/United States Bamako is a 2006 film directed by Abderrahmane Sissako. The film depicts a trial taking place in Bamako, the capital of Mali, amid the daily life that is going on in the city. In the midst of that trial, two sides argue whether the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, or perhaps corruption, are guilty of the current financial state of many poverty-stricken African countries

8.3.2012 Thursday

At 10.00 until 14.00 INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS, Grzinic office Contact me, mostly full

8.3.2012 Thursday At 14.00TEXT/BOOK ARIELLA AZOULAY: THE CIVIL CONTRACT OF PHOTOGRAPHY, READING MARCH/APRIL Ariella Azoulay teaches visual culture and contemporary philosophy at the Program for Culture and Interpretation, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv District, Israel. She is the author of Once Upon A Time: Photography Following Walter Benjamin and Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy, winner of the 2002 Infinity Award for Writing presented by the International Center for Photography for excellence in the field of photography (MIT Press, 2001).

In this groundbreaking work, Ariella Azoulay provides a compelling rethinking of the political and ethical status of photography. In her extraordinary account of the "civil contract" of photography, she thoroughly revises our understanding of the power relations that sustain and make possible photographic meanings. Photography, she insists, must be thought of and understood in its inseparability from the many catastrophes of recent history.

But the crucial arguments of the book concern two groups whose vulnerability and flawed citizenship have been rendered invisible due to their state of exception: the Palestinian noncitizens of Israel and women in Western societies. What they share is an exposure to injuries of various kinds and the impossibility of photographic statements of their plight from ever becoming claims of emergency and calls for protection. Thus one of her leading questions is the following: Under what legal, political or cultural conditions does it become possible to see and to show disaster that befalls those flawed citizens in states of exception?

The book brilliantly examines key texts in the history of modern citizenship, such as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, together with relevant works by Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Olympe de Gouges, and Jean-François Lyotard; it rigorously analyzes Israeli photographs of violent episodes in the Occupied Territories—work by Miki Kratsman, Michal Heiman, and Aïm Deüelle Lüski—and it interpretively engages photographs of women from those of Muybridge to recent images from Abu Ghraib prison. At the same time Azoulay provides new critical perspectives on well-known texts such as Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others and Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida.

At 18.00 Presentation Dorian Bonelli For Diploma April 20

At 20.00 IMAGES, HISTORIES, DISCOURSES, POLITICS FILM PROGRAM: GERMANY IN AUTUMN/DEUTSCHLAND IM HERBST, 1978, 125 minutes, by Henrich Boll, Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, R.W. Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupe, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert, Bernhard Sinkel and Peter Steinbach. Deutschland im Herbst (Germany in Autumn), is a German film-collage, an omnibus film, it collectively covered the social atmosphere during the time of the RAF, while offering different critical perspectives and arguments pertaining to the situation. Made by 13 German directors and writers who attempt to assess the political state of Germany in the autumn of 1977, when Hans-Martin Schleyer, the German industrialist was kidnapped and murdered. Followed almost immediately in the maximum-security Stuttgart-Stammheim prison three members of the Baader-Meinhof group made allegedly a suicide.

9.3.2012 Friday At 14.00 SYMPOSIUM Universalisms in crisis/post-colonial challenges Starts at 14.00 AKBILD, Schillerplatz

10.3.2012 Saturday At 14.00 SYMPOSIUM Universalisms in crisis/post-colonial challenges Starts at 14.00 AKBILD, Schillerplatz

15.03.2012 Thursday At 15.00 until 18.00 Plattform Geschichtspolitik

19.03.2012 Monday

At 14.00 TEXT:/BOOK ARIELLA AZOULAY: THE CIVIL CONTRACT OF PHOTOGRAPHY, READING MARCH/APRIL

At 17.00 Presentation: Lisa Bolyos DIPLOMA WORK, for June 2012

19.03.2012 Monday At 19.00 IMAGES, HISTORIES, DISCOURSES, POLITICS FILM PROGRAM: The Battle of Algiers, 1966, 121 minutes It was directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. The film has been critically celebrated and often taken, by insurgent groups and states alike, as an important commentary on urban guerilla warfare. Algeria was eventually liberated from the French, but Pontecorvo relegates that to an epilogue. He concentrates instead on the years between 1954 and 1957 when the freedom fighters regrouped and expanded into the casbah, only to face a systematic attempt by French paratroopers to wipe them out. His highly dramatic film is about the organisation of a guerrilla movement and the methods used to annihilate it by the colonial power.

20.03.2012, Tuesday

At 10.00 until 13.00 individual meetings, office contact me

At 14.00TEXT/BOOK ARIELLA AZOULAY: THE CIVIL CONTRACT OF PHOTOGRAPHY, READING MARCH/APRIL

At 19.00 GUEST: Rael Artel lecture title: "Life in the Forest" and other projects

My presentation is about my projects which are developed as curatorial strategies to facilitate exhibition-making, knowledge-production and (self-)education. Projects are designed especially to the specific socio-political contexts where they take place trying to draw parallels with local situation and wider international condition. "Public Preparation", ART IST KUKU NU UT and "Your Periphery Is My Centre" will be under discussion.

RAEL ARTEL (b 1980) is an independent curator based in the forests of Estonia. She graduated from the Institute of Art History at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2003, and participated in the Curatorial Training Programme in De Appel, Amsterdam (2004–05). Since 2000, she has contributed to a number of magazines in Estonia and elsewhere, and curated shows in Estonia, as well as in Amsterdam, Lisbon, New York, Riga, and Warsaw. In 2004–2008 she ran and moderated her experimental project space Rael Artel Gallery: Non-Profit Project Space. In 2007 she initiated "Public Preparation", a platform for knowledge-production and network-based communication, she is an artistic director of festival of contemporary art ART IST KUKU NU UT in Tartu, Estonia. More info about the project could be found at www.publicpreparation.org and www.artistkukunuut.org.

26.03.2012, Monday M1, At 15.00 Tanel Rander presentation project

26.03.2012, Monday M1, At 16.30 GUEST PRESENTATION:

Artist: Mladen Bundalo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Art Residency in Vienna PRESENTATION OF HIS WORKS

At 20.00 IMAGES, HISTORIES, DISCOURSES, POLITICS FILM PROGRAM: Episode 3: 'Enjoy Poverty' , 2009, 90 min
Dutch artist Renzo Martens, who spent two years filming the documentary in the Democratic Republic of Congo, calls it a work of art where he instructs the people he meets to see their poverty as a natural resource like gold or copper. His interaction with them is detached, his voice monotone, a white man strolling through a landscape and in an environment he could not possibly ever understand and nor does he pretend to. The film attempts to expose and lay bare the inherent viciousness of poverty’s status quo? It draws parallels between the economics of poverty and the psychology of western consumption and aid.

27.03.2012, Tuesday 10.00 to 13.00 individual meetings, Grzinic office

27.03.2012, Tuesday AT 14:00-18:00 - Reading with guest lecture: Karin Stögner "The dialectic of enlightenment" by Theodor w. Adorno and Max Horkheimer

Studium der Soziologie und Geschichte (Mag.a rer. soc. oec.) sowie der Romanistik und Anglistik (Mag.a phil.) in Wien und Paris; Doktorat in Soziologie; seit 2002 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am IKF; Redakteurin der Österreichischen Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft; Lektorin an der Universität Wien; 2009-2011 Marie Curie-Fellow an der Central European University in Budapest.

Forschungsschwerpunkte: Frauenforschung, Antisemitismusforschung, Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust, Geschichtsphilosophie, Kritische Theorie.

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At 18.00 Presentation Dorian Bonelli, 2 time, For Diploma 20.04.2012

At 20.00 IMAGES, HISTORIES, DISCOURSES, POLITICS

FILM PROGRAM: Brutalität im Stein (Brutality in Stone), 1960/61, 12 minutes Directed by Alexander Kluge, Peter Schamoni In the short film Brutalitaet in Stein Alexander Kluge and Peter Schamoni demonstrate how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime's politics of the same kind. Shots of huge neo-classical architectural structures from the Nazi period are confronted with equally anti-human national-socialist language as a voice-over.

29.03.2012 Thursday At 15.00 until 18.00 Plattform Geschichtspolitik, seminar by Eduard Freudmann

31.03 to 15.04 EASTER HOLIDAYS WE START 16.04 2012