Series of Online Lectures 06.12.2021 - 07.03.2022
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About the Series
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Organizers
- Prof. Dr. Klavdia Smola (Institute of Slavic Studies, TUD)
- Dr. Tatiana Vaizer (Institute of Slavic Studies, TUD)
- Ilya Budraitskis (Faculty of Political Science at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences)
About the Series
The series of lectures Performative Power and Failure of Dissent: Aesthetics of Intervention in Eastern Europe and Beyond explores performative and aesthetical aspects of dissent activities and their effects on the public sphere in various cultural and geopolitical contexts of the 2010s and 2020s. Under (semi-)authoritarian and populist regimes, aesthetical interventions ‒ performances, happenings, rap and pop songs or poetry slams ‒ have become an important part of public utterance and grassroot agency. Often enough they embody alternative spaces of ersatz-politics when political debates are lacking, social minorities are excluded and state propaganda prevails. However, despite different political regimes and power constellations, what we call “performative interventions” seem to be flourishing not only in countries such as Russia, Belarus or Poland, where populism or autocratic political order prevent „direct“ forms of political engagement, but also in so called democratic countries, i.e. France, Germany or the USA. Focusing on social problems and political disasters, activists and artists strive to constitute spaces of emotional and cognitive participation which remain otherwise invisible.
The lectures analyse and problematize the phenomenon of aesthetical intervention by raising the following questions: In what way and in which public spaces dissent performances become (im)perceptible? What affects do they create and what impact can they exert? What have been the key terms of their political agendas in 2010s-2020s and in which countries and social niches: war? ecology? feminism? democracy? Have there been any shifts in the culture of performative politics of dissent in recent years (for example from shocking protest art to less spectacular micropractices)?
Participation
The lectures will be held online on Zoom. No registration is required to attend on our meetings. You are cordially invited to participate!
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Time: 17.00 CET and 19.00 MSK Zoom-Link: Meeting-ID: 829 4368 0292 |
Lectures
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Claire Bishop (City Uiversity of New York) "Interventions: The Art of Political Timing" This lecture offers a historical and theoretical analysis of the “intervention” as an artistic strategy, defining it as a self-initiated and disruptive gesture in the public sphere. Central to the intervention is media circulation, and political timing, an idea that I theorize as a form of conjunctural analysis (Gramsci/Hall). The first appearances of this work are in Latin America in the late 1970s, when a weakening of the dictatorships made it possible for artists to exploit public space and the media at a moment of political uncertainty. Since 2010, however, there has been a resurgence of interventions in response to the resurgence of right-wing nationalism and in tandem with new forms of political activism and dissent (Russia, Cuba, United States). The paper concludes with some reservations about interventions as a genre: the model of the artist that it privileges, and the inherent value of disruption and transgression. * * * Claire Bishop, professor of art history, is widely considered to be an original thinker and creative interpreter of contemporary art, as well as a dynamic teacher. She holds a 2002 Ph.D. from the University of Essex. Her dissertation was published as „Installation Art: A Critical History“ and quickly became an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the subject, and her edited volume, „Participation“, is also highly regarded. Her book „Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship“ (2012) was one of two sole winners of the College Art Association’s 2013 Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism. Bishop is also the author of two influential essays, “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics” (October, 2004) and “The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents” (Artforum, 2006). Her books and articles have been translated into twenty languages, and she is a Contributing Editor to Artforum. |
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Christoph Brunner (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) "Relaying Resistance – Translocal Media Aesthetics and Politics in the Feminist Intervention "A Rapist in Your Path"“ |
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Ilya Budraitskis (Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences) "Earning for the State: Performative Art and Power Relations in Post-Soviet Russia. 1990-2020" |
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Yuliya Ilchuk (Stanford University) "The Power of Displaced Memory: Refugee Writers and Artists on the Crisis in Ukraine" |
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Paweł Leszkowicz (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan) and Tomasz Kitlinski (Freie Universität Berlin) "The Power and Its Limits: Queer Art and Activism in Poland" |
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Eliot Borenstein (New York University) "“I am Groot”: The Politics of Performative Speech under Putin (and Pals)". |
Records
The recorded lectures are available under the following link:
https://tud.link/uhby
Contact
Department of Slavic Literature, Institute of Slavic Studies of TUD