Symposium Abstraction and Economy

Kunst und Wissenstransfer

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The lecture series is organized by Eva Maria Stadler and Jenni Tischer, Department of Art & Knowledge Transfer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Friday, 29. April 2022

DEBT AND ABSTRACTION

The second panel brings together theorists and artists who name and question value systems that are based on raciality and discrimination. The colonial history of property law led to discriminatory exclusions that are still effective today, which follow a logic of abstraction, such as the property register. The naming of a specific historical context like in this case the British colonial setting will help to understand, define and work against a logic taken as given. The narrative of endless economic growth is still very much tied to modern myths of a universality that potentially includes and reaches out to everyone, everywhere. In the panel we ask which aesthetic practices are linked to this narrative and which negate the structural inherence of unequal power relations. How can artistic and aesthetic practices counteract the current regime of accumulation and abstraction?

Place: Auditorium, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Vienna

11:30 – 11:45 Welcoming: Gerald Bast
11:45 – 12:15 Beat Weber
Place: Austrian Postsavings Bank, Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
12:00 – 12:30 Note: Patricia Grzonka
12:30 – 12:50 Presentation: adO/Aptive collective, The Störling, A Community Currency by The Danubian Bank
Auditorium, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Vienna
Moderation: Stefanie Kitzberger
16:00 – 16:30 Lecture: Brenna Bhandar
16:30 – 17:00 Lecture: Sven Lütticken
17:00 – 17:30 Lecture: Karel Císař
17:30 – 18:30 Discussion
// Apéro //
19:00 – 19:30 Lecture: Gabriele Jutz
19:30 – 19:45 Film Screening: Cauleen Smith