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Start > Masterprogramm Humanities & Social Sciences: Kulturwissenschaften - Culture, Arts and Media [ab Studienbeginn WS 13/14] (M.A.) -> Minor Praxisfelder der Künste -> Diskurse, Akteure und Institutionen künstlerischer Felder

Lehrveranstaltungen

Reading Marina Vishmidt with Ima-Abasi Okon (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Christopher Weickenmeier

Termin:
wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 14.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | C 5.124 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Marina Vishmidt died on April 24, 2024. Vishmidt and Ima-Abasi Okon were long-time friends and collaborators. Vishmidt was a radical thinker and activist, whose writing on art, value, social reproduction and labour has been foundational to the present generation of institutionally critical artists such as Okon. Vishmidt´s proliferation of what she called "infrastructural critique" refigured "the art institution as a site of resources—material and symbolic”, allowing for “an opportunist deployment for the sake of furthering all sorts of projects rather than the loyal criticism attendant on ‘institutional critique’ in its established version". Okon will be this year's LIAS artist fellow in residence. She has strong references to the history of conceptual art and institutional critique, but imbues these references with a visceral affect that pushes her work far beyond cool minimalism. Ima-Abasi Okon’s alternative grammar is built through an attentiveness to the symbolic life of objects and materials. She exploits the fact that symbols are interpreted through cultural context, and how these signals of affiliation have informed dominant judgments of taste. Okon’s work encourages us to look at language differently and to re-examine our personal attachments to the prevailing order of an exhausting colonial-capitalist system. She is exhibiting internationally.