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Vocabulary of Decoloniality

ef — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:49:18 GMT

- 9.12.2010 – Semperdepot, M1
  – open to general public

Reading: Vocabulary of Decoloniality

Reading texts (all to be published in the upcoming “Vocabulary of Decoloniality”):

01.12. 2010, 16.00 - 23.00

Ivan Jurica: "Der Drang nach OstenParallels to Post-Colonialism and Coloniality within the Central European Space"
Eyal Danon: "Some Notes from an Encircled Society: the project Liminal Spaces and other case studies"

09.12.2010, 15.30 - 23.00

Jean Rouch: Les Maitres fous (1956)
Talk about Trinh Minh-Ha's critical points on documentary works and ethnology
Tracey Moffatt: Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1990)
Regina Wuzella: "De-Colonising the Filmic Gaze - The In/Visible Trauma in Tracey Moffatt's Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy"
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.

Vocabulary of Decoloniality

ef — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:08:29 GMT

Monday, 22.11.2010 – Semperdepot, M1
– open to general public

15:30 Reading: Vocabulary of Decoloniality

Reading texts (all to be published in the upcoming “Vocabulary of Decoloniality”):

Beatriz Preciado: Pharmaco-pornographic Capitalism*Postporn politics and the Decolonization of sexual representations
Ivan Jurica: „Der Drang nach OstenParallels to Post-Colonialism and Coloniality within the Central European Space”

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.

Seminar Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art

ef — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:36:13 GMT

Seminar Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and ArtConceived and organized by Ivana Marjanović, PhD candidate, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Readings for the students, discussion, implementation in the art work and activations.In the PCAP (Post Conceptual Art Practices) class for many years as part of the class structure reading groups and connections of art and theory have been exposed, organized and supported. Since winter semester 2009, a project in the form of a theory seminar has been proposed by one of the participants of these reading groups. The project has taken the form of theory seminar and even more proposed theory as activation in contemporary art.The readings that were organized in the framework of the seminar dealt with the colonial exploitation of life, decolonization, present discussions about the overall intensification of the capitalist concept of life, death as the measure of a new biopolitics, de-territorialised colonialism, migration politics, structural violence, institutionalized racism, sexism, class issues as well as with discourses on political subject(s), agency, resistance, de-linking, etc.Based on these and previous years readings, a book project “Vocabulary of Decoloniality” (working title) was initiated by Marina Gržinić, Ivana Marjanović and students of the Post Conceptual Art Practices class. The concept of the book has been developed as a collective process by the students. The book represents an attempt to transcend the class program and try to contextualize questions of knowledge, dissemination and activation through art and theory. Reading writers such as Frantz Fanon, bell hooks, Belinda Kazeem, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai, Walter Mignolo and Peggy Piesche and relating their ideas and concepts on the current state of capitalism, migration, racism, class, gender etc. it was detected that it is necessary to reformulate the existing vocabulary and push certain new terminology and meaning.The idea about the book and its title departs from Walter Mignolo's notion of decoloniality, which implies that coloniality exists. The concept of decoloniality has been introduced as a proposal for the contention of contemporary forms of subjugation under neo-liberal capitalism that maintain certain continuities with historical colonialism. It implies that the colonial matrix of power introduced and maintained relations that did not end with decolonization. On the contrary, the established matrix of control, domination and exploitation from the time of colonialism, remain inherent today.

One of the seminar's activities during the winter semester 2010 will be the editorial work on the book that will be published by Loecker Verlag in January 2011. The other activity will consist of readings starting with the texts by Walter Mignolo and Madina Tlostanova following up with readings of the texts by Angela Mitropoulos, Goldie Osuri etc.The project “Seminar Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art” deals with the above mentioned issues, emphasizing how art and contemporary theory together can contribute to the overall social struggle for the rearticulation of the social and political spaces. Selected texts will be read and then discussed in the seminar. Students will present chapters and parts of texts. The seminar encourages discussion, critical thinking and reflection on how to appropriate the proposed theoretical body of work in artistic practice.

First reading (in charge: Marissa Lobo and Ivana Marjanović)Monday, 4.10.2010, 18.00-22.00, Post Conceptual Art Practices class, M1Texts:

Walter D. Mignolo: Coloniality: The Darker Side of Modernity(download: www.antville.org)
Madina Tlostanova: Towards a Decolonization of Thinking and Knowledge: a Few Reflections from the World of Imperial Difference(download: www.antville.org)

Reading: bell hooks

ef — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:13:50 GMT

Reading "Museum. Space. History: New Sites of Political Tectonics"

ef — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:13:15 GMT

Reading "Museum. Space. History: New Sites of Political Tectonics"

ef — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:00:13 GMT

- 1. 1. 2010 – Semperdepot, M1
      – open to general public

both days at 21:00
Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art

Reading: Belinda Kazeem, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai, and Peggy Piesche:“Museum. Space. History: New Sites of Political Tectonics”english: translate.eipcp.netgerman: translate.eipcp.net

Organized by: Ivana Marjanović, PhD candidate, Academy of Fine Arts ViennaFor whom: for all, mandatory for students PCAP, Akbild, ViennaFormat: reading group, discussions, conceiving art works based on art and theory connectionStudents are invited to join at any point.

In the PCAP (Post Conceptual Art Practices) for many years as part of the class structure reading groups and connections of art and theory were exposed, organized and supported. This school year a project as a theory seminar is proposed by one of the participants of these reading groups in the past.The project takes the form of theory seminar and even more proposes theory as activation in contemporary art.The project topic is LIFE.In the context of the present discussions about the overall intensification of the capitalist concept of life it is necessary to pose the question about what life are we talking about here and now. Or, maybe it is even necessary that we stop to think only and solely about life and take death as the measure of a new biopolitics that accordingly to Achille Mbembe we can name necropolitics. Developed in the context of Africa, necropolitics is more and more present in the heart of Europe, due to the processes that are going on here and now, one is de-territorialised colonialism. Thus, it is the historical (colonial) phenomenon of necropolitics and the sovereign power that exercise death that is more and more intensified not only through contemporary wars but as well through migration politics and EU asylum politics, structural violence and institutionalized racism. The colonial matrix of power consisting of the control of economy, the control of authority, the control of gender and sexuality and the control of knowledge and subjectivity is nowadays determining all spheres of life. Such state of things is shaping the knowledge and artistic production as well. Therefore, we are facing constant reproduction of imperial knowledge and art production that is excluding intellectuals, artists, cultural workers who are not privileged to be labeled as intellectuals from the First Capitalist World.

The project “Seminar Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art” deals with the above mentioned issues, emphasizing how art and contemporary theory together can contribute to the overall social struggle for the rearticulation of the social and political spaces.

Selected texts will be read and then discussed in the seminar. Students will present chapters and parts of texts. The seminar will encourage discussion, critical thinking and finally reflection on how to appropriate the proposed theoretical body of work in artistic practice.

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 in the Post-conceptual Art Practices class by Marina Gržinić and Ivana Marjanović. The theory reading group practice has showed 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.

Download: Belinda Kazeem, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai, and Peggy Piesche: “Museum. Space. History: New Sites of Political Tectonics"

ivana_marjanovic — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:55:44 GMT

Belinda Kazeem, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai, and Peggy Piesche: “Museum. Space. History: New Sites of Political Tectonics A virtual exchange between”, translate.eipcp.net

Belinda Kazeem, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai und Peggy Piesche: „Museum. Raum. Geschichte: Neue Orte politischer Tektonik Ein virtueller Gedankenaustausch zwischen“, translate.eipcp.net

POT OF REFFERENCES

ivana_marjanovic — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:42:40 GMT

General info about the exhibition “Benin—Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria”:

www.artic.edu

The show itself was traveling to following cities/museums:

Museum fur Volkerkunde, Vienna May 8-September 3, 2007

Musee du quai Branly, Paris October 2, 2007-January 6, 2008

Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin February 7-May 25, 2008

Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago, museum and art school

An article about stolen artifacts written in relation to the Benin exhibition:

www.afrikanet.info

Info about NiNsee, AmsterdamThe National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacy occupies itself with the history of Dutch Slavery and its impact on society. NiNsee is a centre for expertise.

www.ninsee.nl

Raqs Media Collective, artists, IndiaConnection to www.e-flux.com
About Montezuma's headdress, a featherwork crown of an the Aztec emperor that is a source of dispute between Austria and Mexico

en.wikipedia.org

Mary Louise Pratt - notion "contact zone"

It is coined by Mary Louise Prat in the essay "Arts of the Contact Zone"Bellow is an info about her, link to the essay and its summary:

ESSAY LINK:www.class.uidaho.edu

SUMMARY:www.directessays.com

PROJECT: Homestory Deutschland - Schwarze Biographien in Geschichteund Gegenwart

www.sharonotoo.com homestorydeutschland.blogspot.com

Seminar: Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art

ef — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:21:24 GMT

Tuesday, 2. 3. 2010 – Semperdepot, M1
– open to general public

21:00 Seminar: Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art

Reading: Belinda Kazeem, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai, and Peggy Piesche:“Museum. Space. History: New Sites of Political Tectonics A virtual exchange between”english: translate.eipcp.netgerman: translate.eipcp.net

Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art - January

ef — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:19:53 GMT

Project “SEMINAR Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art”

Reading and discussion: Frantz Fanon "The Wretched of the Earth", Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1961Format: reading group, discussions, conceiving art works based on art and theory connectionOrganized by Ivana Marjanović, PhD candidate, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and students PCAP, Akbild, ViennaStudents 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, WednesdaySemper depot, M1At 20.00 untill 23.00

15.01.2010, FridaySemper depot, M1At 20.00 untill 23.00

22.01.2010, FridaySemper depot, M1At 14.00 until 17.00

Saturday, 23.01.2010Semper depot, M1At 12.00 until 17.00

27.01.2010 WednesdaySemper depot, M1At 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.

Download: The Wretched of the Earth

ef — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:10:06 GMT

Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art

ef — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:07:36 GMT

PROJECT: “SEMINAR Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art”Proposed by Ivana Marjanović, PhD candidate, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.Where: PCAP, Akbild ViennaFor whom: for all, mandatory for students PCAP, Akbild, ViennaFormat: reading group, discussions, conceiving art works based on art and theory connection

There are no applications for this project. Schedule will be updated every month on m1.antville.org. Students are invited to join at any point.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECTIn the PCAP (Post Conceptual Art Practices) for many years as part of the class structure reading groups and connections of art and theory were exposed, organized and supported. This school year a project as a theory seminar is proposed by one of the participants of these reading groups in the past.The project takes the form of theory seminar and even more proposes theory as activation in contemporary art.The project topic is LIFE.In the context of the present discussions about the overall intensification of the capitalist concept of life it is necessary to pose the question about what life are we talking about here and now. Or, maybe it is even necessary that we stop to think only and solely about life and take death as the measure of a new biopolitics that accordingly to Achille Mbembe we can name necropolitics. Developed in the context of Africa, necropolitics is more and more present in the heart of Europe, due to the processes that are going on here and now, one is de-territorialised colonialism. Thus, it is the historical (colonial) phenomenon of necropolitics and the sovereign power that exercise death (Achille Mbembe) that is more and more intensified not only through contemporary wars but as well through migration politics and EU asylum politics (Rada Ivekovic, Tatjana Greif etc), structural violence and institutionalized racism (Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur). The colonial matrix of power (Walter Mignolo) consisting of the control of economy, the control of authority, the control of gender and sexuality and the control of knowledge and subjectivity is nowadays determining all spheres of life. Such state of things is shaping the knowledge and artistic production as well. Therefore, we are facing constant reproduction of imperial knowledge and art production that is excluding intellectuals, artists, cultural workers who are not privileged to be labeled as intellectuals from the First Capitalist World.

While at the moment Europe is celebrating the twenty years of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of borders as its consequence, borders are constantly being reproduced and are continually being re-inscribed within the social fabric. The “Seminar Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art” will deal with the above mentioned issues, emphasizing how art and contemporary theory together can contribute to the overall social struggle for the rearticulation of the social and political spaces.

Besides above mentioned theoreticians, the seminar will take into consideration the work of Manuela Bojadžijev, Sebastjan Leban, Homi K. Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Frantz Fanon, Ljubomir Bratić, Rozalinda Borcila, bell hooks, Frederic Jameson, Tihomir Topuzovski, Ana Vujanović, Marta Popivoda and others.

Selected books and texts will be read and then discussed in the seminar. Students will present chapters, parts of texts and books. The seminar will encourage discussion, critical thinking and finally reflection on how to appropriate the proposed theoretical body of work in artistic practice.

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 practice has showed 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.

For further questions please contact Ivana Marjanović: ivanamar@gmail.com