Treason and Form
17 June, 2016 19.00
Kunstpavillion Innsbruck
Rennweg 8a, A-6020 Innsbruck
A discussion between Kuda.org/GKP and Marina Vishmidt & Anthony Iles
Kuda.org and the Group for Conceptual Politics (Grupa za Konceptualnu Politiku) have been invited to take part in a discussion with Anthony Iles and Marina Vishmidt at the Kunstpavilion, Innsbruck 17 June 2016. The event takes place in the context of an exhibition by fellows of the International Program for Art and Theory at Büchsenhausen.
The discussion will explore questions of political and artistic form in their tensions and convergences. What kinds of methods enable us to be active in this field while avoiding the reification of concepts, to retain the speculative at the core of our inquiries? What would it mean to understand ourselves as 'subjects congealed as technology', or as historically produced objects ‘culturally bonded through the creation of relations’?
About the Speakers
Marina Vishmidt and Anthony Iles
Since 2009, Marina Vishmidt and Anthony Iles have been working together on a series of essays, posters and presentations expanding their common interest in the relation of artistic practices to social crisis by reflecting on the roles of machines, labor and value in capitalist reality and communist philosophy.
Recent tendencies show that art is more often affirmed than negated by its incorporation of the 'outside', accumulating more efficiently than the crisis capitalism it ransacks for its themes. At the same time, radical politics seeks to dissolve art in ethics or practical activity, itself a conservative gesture when nothing else changes. Can the aesthetic help us here, keeping open the sensuous and indeterminate in the movement of negation? If art tends to lose its borders with other activities in a society transformed by the speculative economy, it shows that the relation between speculation and subjectivity is what makes it urgent to discern a politics that actualizes the constitutive '(dis)measure' that makes art a privileged site for speculation.
http://plasticgivens.tumblr.com/
Group for Conceptual Politics (Grupa za konceptualnu politiku)
GKP is an artistic and political organization which is the result of local conflicts and clashes by which people in this struggle are fleeing while avoiding antagonism as a model of articulation of their own practice and thought. It seeks to construct a space which it ironically designates an ‘institutional commune’. It comprehends that work needs to be published in order to be created (written, read or translated). The Group's work is therefore the political project of the deconstruction of cultural policy and state education.
http://konceptualnapolitika.blogspot.co.com
About Kuda.org
New Media Center_kuda.org is an independent organization which brings together artists, theoreticians, media activists, researchers and the wider public in the field of Information and Communication Technologies. In this respect, kuda.org is dedicated to the research of new cultural relations, contemporary artistic practice, and social issues.
Kuda.org's work focuses on questions concerning the influence of the electronic media on society, on the creative use of new communication technologies, and on contemporary cultural and social policy. Some of the main issues include interpretation and analysis of the history and significance of the information society, the potential of information itself, and the diffusion of its influence on political, economic and cultural relationships in contemporary society. New Media Center_kuda.org opens space for both cultural dialog and alternative methods of education and research. A social question, media culture, new technologies art, and the Open Source and Free Software principal are areas in which kuda.org is engaged.
http://www.kuda.org/