PCAP March 2013

4.03.2013, Monday

At 16.00 until 20.00 Class discussion: overview rundgang, exhibitions, projects, class travel 2013, open questions

5.03.2013, Tuesday

At 16.00 until 19.00 TEXT READING: Jacques Rancière and the Subversion of Mastery. Peter Hallward. University of Middlesex. Citation Information. Volume 28, Page 26-45, 2005. Free download: abahlali.org

5.03.2013, Tuesday

At 20.00 FILM SCREENING: IMAGES, HISTORIES, POLITICS: talk on the film Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years, 1984 to 1992. A film by Dagmar Schultz done in 2012.

Audre Lorde's years in Berlin in which she catalyzed the first movement of Black Germans to claim their identity as Afro-Germans with pride. As she was inspiring Afro-Germans she was also encouraging the White German feminists to look at their own racism.

07.03.2013, THURSDAY

At 11:30 Seminar by Eduard Freudmann

11.03.2013, Monday

At 16.00 until 20.00 INTRODUCTION ERASMUS IN THE CLASS TEXT READING: Jacques Rancière and the Subversion of Mastery. Peter Hallward. University of Middlesex. Citation Information. Volume 28, Page 26-45, 2005. Free download: abahlali.org

12.03.2013, Tuesday

At 10.00 to 13.00 indiv. Meetings, office Grzinic, contact me for the appointment

At 13.00 meeting with Karl Baratta and Georg Schöllhammer regarding the project The unrest of forms, -the question of the political subject , that is to be shown in the Academy Mid May 2013.

At 16.00 meeting with Erasmus students

12.03.2013, Tuesday At 18.00 until 20.30 seminar by MA student in the class, Johannes Puchleitner

TOPIC: David Harvey, Neoliberalism and the City + the (different?) case of Vienna

mit Felix Wiegand - geb. 1983 studierte Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Wien und ist zurzeit wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Humangeographie der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind kritische Raum- und Stadtforschung, das Werk von David Harvey sowie materialistische Staats- und Gesellschaftstheorie.

und INURA Wien - Bettina Köhler, Franziska Lind, Johannes Puchleitner

Mit dem weltweiten Wiederaufschwung urbaner sozialer Bewegungen und den vielfältigen Konflikten im städtischen Raum ist in den letzten Jahren ein wachsender Bedarf nach einer kritischen Analyse und Deutung aktueller, neoliberaler Formen der Stadtentwicklung entstanden. In diesem Kontext stellt das Werk des kritischen Geographen und marxistischen Gesellschaftstheoretikers David Harvey für viele AktivistInnen und StadtforscherInnen einen wichtigen Bezugspunkt dar. Seit der Veröffentlichung seines bahnbrechenden Buches "Social Justice and the City" im Jahr 1973 beschäftigt sich Harvey – neben vielen anderen Themen – intensiv mit dem Zusammenhang von Urbanisierung und Kapitalismus, zuletzt ist von ihm 2012 "Rebel Cities. From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution" erschienen. Der Vortrag fragt danach, was Harveys Werk zum besseren Verständnis neoliberaler Stadtentwicklung – und ihrer Krisen – beitragen kann, und untersucht, worin aus dieser Perspektive die Chancen, aber auch die Schwächen aktueller Kämpfe für ein „Recht auf Stadt“ bestehen.

Weiters werden im Anschluss die oben genannten Themenbereiche noch anhand von lokalen (Wiener) Beispielen hinterfragt, verglichen und beurteilt.

With the global re-emergence of urban social movements and the multiple conflicts in urban space over the last couple of years a growing demand evolved for critical analysis of the current, neoliberal type of urban development. In this context the work of David Harvey, a critical geographer and Marxist social theorist, forms an import reference point for many activists and urban researchers. Since the publication of his groundbreaking book "Social Justice and the City" in the year 1973 Harvey is – among plenty of other topics – concerned with the interrelation of urbanization and capitalism, his latest book in 2012 called "Rebel Cities. From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution". The lecture examines the contribution of Harvey's work for a better understanding of the neoliberal urban development – and its crisis – and analyzes the chances, but also the weaknesses of existing struggles for the “right to the city”.

After that, we will have a deeper look on local (Viennese) examples and try to question, compare and evaluate some of the topics raised above.

14.03.2013, Thursday At 11:30 Seminar Eduard Freudmann

18.03.2013, Monday Montag, 18. März, 14 – 16 Uhr

WHAT'S YOUR OBJECT / SUBJECT?

Eine Veranstaltung von CINENOVA mit Karolin Meunier und Sandra Schäfer

CINENOVA DISTRIBUTION is a volunteer-run organisation in London dedicated to preserving and distributing the work of women/feminist film and video makers since 1991. It currently distributes over 500 titles that include experimental film, narrative feature films, artists’ film and video, documentary and educational videos made from the 1920s to the present. The thematics in these titles include oppositional histories, post-colonial struggles, reproductive labour, representation of gender and sexuality, and importantly, the relations and alliances between these different struggles. cinenova.org Im September 2013 wird Cinenova eine Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle Exnergasse realisieren. Mit dieser Veranstaltung in der Akademie der Bildenden Künste wollen wir anhand von Filmen aus der Sammlung die Organisation und unsere Arbeitsweise vorstellen und diskutieren. Wir laden alle an dem Projekt interessierten Studierenden und Lehrenden, sowie unsere möglichen Kooperationspartner_innen aus Wien und Linz herzlich dazu ein.

Cinenova Working Group: Cay Castagnetto, Megan Fraser, Emma Hedditch, Karolin Meunier, Irene Revell, Sandra Schäfer, Kerstin Schroedinger, Marina Vishmidt

Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien Ordinariat für Kunst und digitale Medien Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 6-8

1. Stock, Studierbereich I12 1060 Wien

18.03.2013, Monday

At 17 .00 until 19.00 TEXT READING: Jacques Rancière and the Subversion of Mastery. Peter Hallward. University of Middlesex. Citation Information. Volume 28, Page 26-45, 2005. Free download: abahlali.org

At 19.00 Student presentation: Katarzyna Winiecka

At 20.00 Student presentation:Sarah Binder

19.03.2013, Tuesday At 10.00 to 13.00 indiv. Meetings, office Grzinic, contact me for the appointment

19.03.2013, Tuesday At 14.00 until 21.00 seminar by MA student in the class, Catalina Ravessoud Watching film: La Commune: Paris, 1871 Film by Peter Watkins, 345 minutes / b&w Release: 2002 WE WILL HAVE PAUSES IN THE FILM SCREENING. CONTEXT about the film, debate, intro provided by Catalina Ravessoud. ABOUT THE FILM: La Commune is the name given to the French revolutionary government established by the people of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). On March 17 and 18, Parisians led an uprising against the national government, which fled the capital and re-established itself in Versailles. The radicals established a proletarian government in Paris, called the Central Committee of the National Guard, and set March 26 as the date for the election of a municipal council. This council became known as the Commune of 1871, and its members as Communards. Most Communards were followers of Louis Auguste Blanqui, a revolutionary held prisoner in Versailles by the head of the National Assembly, Adolphe Thiers. Other Communards supported the school of socialism expounded by the French philosopher Pierre Joseph Proudhon and members of the International Workingmen's Association, of which Karl Marx was then a corresponding secretary. For the film LA COMMUNE we travel back in time to 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives of the Paris rebels. On a stage-like set, more than 200 actors interpret characters of the Commune, especially the Popincourt neighborhood in the XIth arrondissement. They voice their own thoughts and feelings concerning the social and political reforms. The telling of this story rests primarily on depicting the people of the Commune, and those who suppressed them. Deliberately, this film is an attempt to challenge existing notions of documentary film, as well as the notions of 'neutrality' and 'objectivity' so beloved by the mass media today. The film is not intended as an apologia on behalf of the Paris Commune. But at the same time, it attempts to show that the Paris Commune, for all its human frailty, its internal conflicts and its blundering, was an event of major importance, not least because of the way in which its leading reformers tried to work with social process, by a direct involvement with the community and its needs.

20.03.2013, Wednesday At 11:30 Seminar by Eduard Freudmann

22.03.2013, Friday M1, Seminar with Elske Rosenfeld. Elske Rosenfeld is PHD in Arts student at the Academy. 4 sessions, the first in March is on the 22.03, M1, from 10-13 and from 14.30-17.30

TOPIC/TITLE: General Body Meeting – The Body as Disruption in Art and Politics LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

DATES/HOURS for 4 sessions: 22. March, 10-13 and 14.30-17.30 24. April, 10-13 and 14.30-17.30 26. April, 10-13 and 14.30-17.30 24. June, 10-13 and 14.30-16.00

ABOUT: The seminar/workshop combines a reading of selected texts from aesthetic, political and queer theory, with discussions of artistic reference material, touching on practices of re-enactment, as well as the histories of performance and body art, to reclaim a notion of embodied practices in art that avoids essentialist claims of physical presence or authenticity. Looking at the different ways the body has been used in different, also non-Western traditions of body art, can we reconstruct an artistic practice that configures the body as an outside to language and thus, as a disruptive force that can open up spaces of rupture and openness in the status quo? We will look especially at how the body emerges as political in recent situations of unrest, protest or revolution, such as the Arab Spring or the Occupy/Democracía Real Ya movements, where political/revolutionary space was constituted primarily by the physical assembly and sustenance of bodies in space. Secondly, looking at the post-revolutionary moment of failure or closure in relation to these instances, but also, further back in history, in the revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe, we ask how the past experience of revolution persists in the body as potentiality, even after revolution becomes closed down in language, re-institutionalisation and historiography. Based on our discussions of texts and art works and using materials from the these different historical instances, we arrive at a number of practical exercises that play with strategies of scripting, performing from script, or re-enacting through mimesis/ copying, working with gesture and movement, with objects and space, to explore the core questions of the seminar in an experimental, collaborative, and hands-on way.
The seminar requires not previous knowledge, but demands the full and active participation of participants – also with a view to a possible practical collaborative outcome.

HOLIDAYS: 25.03-8.04.2013 FIRST WORKING DAY, 8.04.2013