A for Autonomy

with Marina Vishmidt (author) and Ana Hoffner (artist*) Andreas Oberprantacher (philosopher), Andrei Siclodi (curator, moderation)

Photo credit: Johannes Paul Raether "ResearchAvatara Species Transformellae 4.4.5.1: Insomation of The Totipotential CryoCommunisat Performance," Fridericianum Kassel, 25.5.2015, Photo: Holger Jenss.

After the presentation of her co-authored book Reproducing Autonomy: Work, Money, Crisis and Contemporary Art (together with Kerstin Stakemeier, published by Mute), Marina Vishmidt will discuss together with the invited guests different aspects of the terms ‘autonomy’ und ‘reproduction’, as they appear particularly in the Marxist and feminist discourses, in the context of contemporary (critical) art.

About the book:

Reproducing Autonomy: Work, Money, Crisis and Contemporary Art (London: Mute 2016) is a collaboration between writer Marina Vishmidt and art historian Kerstin Stakemeier. The book considers the issues of autonomy and reproduction, particularly in the Marxist and feminist registers, as they manifest in the critical field of contemporary art. Generated from conversations that have unfolded between Vishmidt and Stakemeier over the past years, the book situates its questions predominantly in the politics of work which are gaining high if no less obfuscating visibility in art discourse in recent times. It enacts as well as explores practices and methodologies that seek to disclose the labour in the commodity and the negativity of the labor that becomes aesthetically and politically reified in the institution of art today.

Marina Vishmidt is a London-based writer occupied mainly with questions around art, labor and value. She is the author of Speculation as a Mode of Production (Brill, early 2016) and A for Autonomy (with Kerstin Stakemeier) (Textem, 2015). She also works regularly with Anthony Iles and with Melanie Gilligan. She collaborates with artists and contributes to journals such as Mute, Afterall, Texte zur Kunst, and the South Atlantic Quarterly, as well as co-/edited collections and catalogs,most recently Anguish Language (Archive Books, forthcoming). She is part of the Theory faculty at the Dutch Art Institute, a visiting lecturer at Middlesex University and the University of Brighton, and has taught at the University of the Arts in Berlin, Central Saint Martins, and Goldsmiths.

Marina Vishmidt is a London-based writer occupied mainly with questions around art, labor and value. She is the author of Speculation as a Mode of Production (Brill, early 2016) and A for Autonomy (with Kerstin Stakemeier) (Textem, 2015). She also works regularly with Anthony Iles and with Melanie Gilligan. She collaborates with artists and contributes to journals such as Mute, Afterall, Texte zur Kunst, and the South Atlantic Quarterly, as well as co-/edited collections and catalogs,most recently Anguish Language (Archive Books, forthcoming). She is part of the Theory faculty at the Dutch Art Institute, a visiting lecturer at Middlesex University and the University of Brighton, and has taught at the University of the Arts in Berlin, Central Saint Martins, and Goldsmiths.


Location

Künstler:innenhaus Büchsenhausen
Weiherburggasse 13
A-6020 Innsbruck

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