The Art of Critique
Conference, 19 – 20 April 2008, opening party: 18 April, 21.00
Languages: English (19 April) and German (20 April)
What is critique? It is certainly not simply a practice of judging, much less of condemning. It may be that these kinds of reactive, abbreviated forms of “critique” charged with resentment are still being preached from the pulpits of academic teaching and announced from within the bunkers of art criticism, a practice that is perhaps even stronger than ever. In a contemporary concept of critique, however, it can no longer be a matter of a more or less rigorous yes or no to a certain object. In the contributions to the conference we want to equally problematize the meanings of critique that have been developed for centuries, for instance as a capacity for distinction, a critical attitude or a practical critical activity, as well as new forms and concepts of critique as atopical critique, embodied critique, counter-hegemonial intervention, resistance or exodus.
Alex Demirović, Marina Garcés, Hakan Gürses, Maurizio Lazzarato, Isabell Lorey, Chantal Mouffe, Patricia Purtschert, Gerald Raunig, Karl Reitter, Ulf Wuggenig
Moderation: Stefan Nowotny, Alice Pechriggl
Programme / abstracts / audio-streaming: http://transform.eipcp.net/conference
Reminder
HAVE THE CAKE AND EAT IT, TOO. Institutional Critique as Instituent Practice
Exhibition, 13 March – 19 April 2008
http://transform.eipcp.net/Actions/exhibitions/instituentpractices/
Discursive framework program:
New Feminism. World of Feminism, Queer and Networking Conditions, book presentation, 7 April, 19.00
Agency, Specimen 0768 (Musée du Cinéma Henri Langlois), 15 April, 18.00
How to picture protest? On the Representation of Activism in Artworks and Exhibitions; Screening and panel discussion, 18 April, 19.00
http://transform.eipcp.net/Actions/exhibitions/instituentpractices#disc
Venue:
Kunsthalle Exnergasse / WUK, Währinger Str. 59, 1090 Wien
http://kunsthalle.wuk.at/