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THE BLAST OF THE POSSIBLE
Autonomy, Migration, Reterritorialisation,
Property and the Border of the Political
Presentation by
Angela Melitopoulos | Artist, Cultural Scientist
WHERE: Institut für das künstlerische Lehramt/ Institute for
Education in the Arts | Karl-Schweighofergasse 3, 1070 Wien, 3. Stock |
Hörsaal
WHEN: Wed. 27th. May 2009, 19.00
The Blast of the Possible looks on the role of property in Cyprus after the
failure of the Annan Plan in 2004 that triggered a real estate boom on the
island. Today a new road map for reunification is discussed. This research
focuses on the reasons of the boom, the role of migration in Cyprus and the
significance of archives and property, in the discussion of this political
conflict.The project contains case studies on property claims that display
different political forms of belonging and property rights. Property is
discussed with an emphasis on what the imaginary quality means within such a
political conflict at the borders of Europe.The Blast of the Possible
proposes a practise-led media project based on internet platforms and shared
video archives.
Angela Melitopoulos, artist in the time-based arts, realized experimental
single-channel tapes, video installations, video-essays, documentaries and
sound pieces. Her work focuses on migration/mobility, memory and narration.
She conceives media art projects in that video technology as a time-based
medium revealing mnemonic and micro political processes in documentation.
Angela Melitopoulos studied fine Arts with Nam June Paik. She is
collaborating in political networks in Europe and Turkey and teaches in
academic institutions and art centers. Currently she is a Phd student at the
Goldsmiths College in London and a research fellow at the Matrix East Lab in
the University of East London.
Organised by the Department for Art and Communication at the Academy of Fine
Arts Vienna in the frame of the dissertation seminar (Prof. Marion von
Osten)
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PRACHTSRASSE, FANMEILE, PREUSSENSCHLOSS
Nation branding and New Nationalism in Germany
Presentation by
Johannes Paul Raether | Artist, Activist
WHERE: Institut für das künstlerische Lehramt/ Institute for
Education in the Arts | Karl-Schweighofergasse 3, 1070 Wien, 3. Stock |
Hörsaal
WHEN: Thur. 4th. June 2009, 19.00
In the recent years Germany has seen yet another revival of Nationalism.
Unlike in the Nineties, when Nazi-skins and the Kosovo war dominated the
discourses around Nationalism in Germany, the contemporary "new Nationalism"
expresses itself in culture. Building up to the 2006 world cup and the
60year anniversary of the BRD in 2009 an unprecedented amount of
nationbranding-campaigns, exhibitions and events was organized to
communicate Germany as a strong, yet self-critical Nation. In the term of
the "purified nation" and the "Kulturnation" and along narratives of a
seemingly funny and harmless "party-otism" where "it´s only about soccer"
new forms of a "culturalized Nationalism" seem to take shape.
Johannes Paul Raether is an artist and author, activist and performer based
in Berlin. He will show his new project ‚Prachtstrasse’, a slide show, which
he produced since 2006. The slide-film researches the image-campaign
’Germany – Land of Ideas’, an initiative of the German government and the
Federation of German Industries during the soccer world championship in
2006. In this framework, six monumental sculptures were erected in the
centre of Berlin – all representing ’German’ inventions. Johannes Paul
Raether will also discuss examples of intervening into the national
consensus in culture by the means of performance, actions, happenings and
artist organisation, focusing on how to articulate a fundamental critique of
the nation, as a critical cultural producer, without being embraced by the
very contemporary german nationalist discourse: "the self-critical nation".
Organised by the Faculty for Post-conceptual art practices and
the Faculty for Art and Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
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