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Manifesto for the Gynecene – Sketch of a New Geological Era

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I want a dyke for president - Zoe Leonard (1992)

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I want a dyke for president - Zoe Leonard (1992)

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Florian Cramer - for WdKA Autonomous Practices

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Florian Cramer - for WdKA Autonomous Practices

different definitions of autonomy depending on languages, knowledge --> political, aesthetic, philosophic

Crisis

- 2011 radical funding cuts in Netherlands cause of politics --> affecting those depending on funding (FineArt, Design, creative industries)

--> creative industries all relying on public funding

"Thus, when citing the Netherlands as an example, one should bear in mind that there is neither any true ‘autonomy’, nor many real ‘industries’ in the arts."

--> Does autonomy exist in the first place?

- interdependence within any system

l’art pour l’art - art for art’s sake

--> a claim for autonomy

--> art independent from external forces & in a process of liberating itself from the rules of depiction & representation

--> abstract art was logical consequence of this autonomy

the Dutch concept of autonomy in the arts --> freedom of expression & serving its own purpose

1980s Pierre Bourdieu's new concept of artistic ‘autonomy’

--> artwork is autonomous whenever it has not been commissioned by an external party, but seeks its own market.

--> ‘Heteronomous’ art, on the other hand, involves a commissioning party

(Hollywood film would be autonomous)

-->autonomy rests on economic power

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if...

... autonomy & self-organisation not existing as absolutes -> a. instead defined as always relative & embedded into ecologies of interdependence;

... relation between a. & dependence not dialectical as critical (aesthetic) theory suggests but complex and multi-layered;

... a. has become a contested, politically questionable, increasingly weaponised concept ->concerning privilege & implying exclusion of others whose a. is denied;

… then, what can still be gained from identifying a fabric of artists’ self-organised practices as ‘autonomous’?

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artworks related to the questions of autonomy

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artworks related to the questions of autonomy

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drops of water condense as soon as room temperature rises (body heat of visitors)

--> open, context-dependent system

--> interacting with its environment

--> autonomous appearance

--> visual language associated with autonomy in order to question autonomy

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MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona

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Condensation Cube, 1963 - 1967 | Hans Haacke | MACBA

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Access the advanced search to find artists, works, documents and all the art in the MACBA Collection.

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I want to report a theft - resistance

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The Netherlands returns 119 stolen sculptures to Nigeria

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The Benin Bronzes were artefacts stolen during the UK's imperial plunder of Benin, modern-day southern Nigeria.

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"Cuando los subalternos entran en el museo: desobediencia epidémica y crítica institucional by Paul B. Preciado - page 6

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summary.podcast.Bé_Masha Gessen on How We Survive an Autocracy

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Jacques Rancière: “The carpenter, baker, shoemaker, blacksmith, all must remain tied to their stations in life. The ‘office’ of the artist, however, is ambiguous. It is like a phantom profession, one that permits the artist to simultaneously work and not work, to have a ‘real’ job, and to have a fictional job. And nothing is more subversive than showing other workers the pleasure of not engaging in productive labor.

“Freedom from shopping is a virulent, contagious threat to the twin forces of consumerism and militarism. The earth is demanding our bravery now. Changeallujah!”

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1) Relax. Take a deep breath. Exhale. Repeat.

2) Take a moment to reflect on the nasty policies, social ills, and community woes that need to be challenged and corrected.

3) Choose an issue that you feel particularly drawn to, and ask yourself, "What is most responsible for this dire situation? What obstacles stand in the way of a solution to this problem?"

4) Most likely, you will conclude that a large corporation, government agency, social institution, or other organizational entity is at least partially responsible for perpetuating the problem you seek to address. Write that name inside the red circle. (Note: this will not work against individuals, which unfortunately includes bosses, landlords, specific politicians, cops, etc.).

5) Close your eyes and envision the entire design, complete with the name written in the circle. Watch the name fade to nothingness. Now envision the positive results that would occur if your target's vile actions were to disappear.

6) Open your eyes, and then, go attach the sticker to the property of the encircled establishment.

7) Relax. Breathe freely. Smile. You have just completed your first act of street-level Tactical Magic by taking that difficult first step in mentally, spiritually, and physically addressing social injustice! Keep it up & Good Luck!

Finally, write a small text about the institution you hexed and why you did so. Bonus if you attach a picture of the sticker placed on the institution itself.

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Masha Gessen on how to survive an autocracy by e-flux

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Journalist and author Masha Gessen discusses ways of surviving an autocracy. Rule #1? Believe the autocrat.

For this week’s episode of the e-flux podcast, we are featuring Masha Gessen’s lecture, "How We Survive an Autocracy," originally given on May 24, 2017 as part of an ongoing e-flux lectures series dedicated to discovering the protocols of twenty-first century truth, assuming that these still exist.

Launched in February 2017, most e-flux lectures are live streamed on e-flux.com/live and archived at e-flux.com/video/.

Masha Gessen is a journalist and author, whose most recent book, "The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia," won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Gessen is also the author of the national bestseller "The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin" (2012). Gessen is a staff writer at The New Yorker.

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Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition

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On Saturday night, the renowned and mysterious Italian street artist Blu went on an art-destroying spree through the streets of Bologna.

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The Field of Contemporary Art: A Diagram - Notes - e-flux - Andrea Fraser

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The Field of Contemporary Art: A Diagram - Notes - e-flux

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Andrea Fraser lays out the five subfields of contemporary art and their complex interrelations.

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Street Artist Blu Is Erasing All The Murals He Painted in Bologna

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not an event but part of colonial continuum

systemic destruction of Palestinian education within context of Israel’s decades-long settler colonization & occupation of Palestine

first coined by Oxford professor Karma Nabulsi during the 2008-2009 Israeli assault on Gaza

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What are the criteria revealed by the practices that are supported and succeed within it?

What are the values that underlie those criteria, and thus structure hierarchies of position within the field?

What forms of capital, or power, do those values represent and in what social spaces and groups are they concentrated?

What forms of domination do their concentration represent?

Which of those values and hierarchies are at stake in struggles within the field?

Are those struggles competitive struggles to gain power and position within those hierarchies, or transformative struggles to change them?

What forms of power are employed in these struggles themselves and what hierarchies and forms of domination do they produce or reproduce?

What new forms of social organization or principles of hierarchization, if any, are emerging in their place?

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multi-elite party system

--> “the ‘left’ as party of intellectual elite,” “the ‘right’ as party of business elite,” (& low-income, low-education, & ex-urban voters who feel dominated by cultural capital & by the urban centers in which it is concentrated

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"(...) attempts to specify criteria for artistic knowledge production and research tend to surface conflicts between nonart academic fields on the one hand, where authority is rooted in institutionalized academic standards, and art, where the imposition of academic standards can be seen as an attack on artistic autonomy."

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Year of the Monkey - Patti Smith

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A Handbook of Disappointed Fate - Anne Boyer

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A Handbook of Disappointed Fate - Anne Boyer

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"The late capitalist model has alienated the human body to such a degree that we no longer are allowed to be human to be considered successful."

"A radical change in praxis does not always mean a dramatic and drastic change."

epistemologie = knowledge

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death as a refusal requires as its material only life, which if rendered cheap enough by the conditions despite the refusal, can become precious again when selectively and heroically deployed as a no.

Capitalism and yes

No, Refusal, protest —> is a no also always a yes to the opposite?

Refusal in poetry by reversal

Reversal as enacted refusal - Walt Whitman „Transppositions“

Pointing out the nonsense of structure of social classes

Bertold Brecht 1935 essay „Writing the Truth: The Five Difficulties“

Fragment of ancient Egyptian poem of reversal

Reversal in this case as nothing more than imagination is less direct than a no to what is but still powerful in the sense of imagining the impossible making it less impossible

Requirement of collective effort toward enactment

„No“ can implement many ways to say yes - „their silence speaks volume“ Cicero

Lamb against Bird of Prey

Bird of prey following desire of taste, seeing what it wants not what is

Lamb learns to survive, to understand the system- the vengeful cunning of the powerless

The lamb telling the story of itself as a lamb speaks the language of the wolf

humans both lamb and bird of prey

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are.na --> research

notion --> project management, planning

DaVinci /Premiere

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research

are.na --> collecting source

printing out images/ hanging them--> get a better overview/ being confronted with them

--> refine interest

--> directed research

--> associating things freely --> play

play & intuition --> without goal

choose a way of making that comes natural to you

drawing, sketching, painting, collages, writing, photos, ...

creating a structure

audio

mood images

story board

key words

treatment

location

production

if with people, assemble team, meet before

determine tools/ equipment

packing list

plan for mistakes

be flexible (structure just as a guide)

post production

balance, dynamics, contrasts

if lost, back to research!!!

think of stylistic choices

trust intuition !!!--> informed by previous work (active/ passive)

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presentation of (some of) her art

showing her process of making

images and words - game

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What is the influence of the media on identity? - Dan Hassler-Forest + Representation - Stuart Hall

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What is the influence of the media on identity? - Dan Hassler-Forest + Representation - Stuart Hall

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The Queer Art of Failure - J. Jack Halberstam 

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The Queer Art of Failure - J. Jack Halberstam 

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A Stake in the Unknown - Nana Adusei-Poku

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A Stake in the Unknown - Nana Adusei-Poku

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The Mona Lisa Curse - Robert Hughes and Mandy Chan 

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The Mona Lisa Curse - Robert Hughes and Mandy Chan 

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Renzo Martens - dutch conceptual artist

Hito Steyerl - german film-maker, author

Andrea Fraser - american, performance, installation

Documenta Kassel

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Kent Monkman - canadian, cree artist

Mari Katayama - japanese, multimedia (photography, sculpture, self portrait)

Zanele Muholi - south african, photograph, video, installation

Adrian Piper - us american, conceptual artist

Oreet Ashery - from Jerusalem, visual artist

Del LaGrace Volcano - us american, photography, performance, ...

Zakiyyah Iman Jackson - becoming human book

Suzanne Césaire - french author

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Antonio Gramsci - italian politician, marxist philosopher, writer

Guerilla Girls - anonymous, us american artist group out of feminist activists

Tania Bruguera - cuban, performance, installation (havana bienal)

Aernout Mik - dutch

one man's very polite fight against media islamophobia - article

Paris is burning - movie

Tokenism - practice of doing something (such as hiring a person who belongs to a minority group) only to prevent criticism and give the appearance that people are being treated fairly

Objectification - treating people as objects

Power of discourse - keep certain image alive

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Pussy Riot - feminist protest & performance art group

Rosa Parks - us american civil rights activist

umbrella movement Hong Kong

Duran Adam - turkish, silent protest

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Starting with defining the term “Orientalism” as the Western view of Middle Eastern societies as a “style of domination, restructuring and possession of authority over the Orient” he got to the example of the conflict between Israel and Palestine to describe the importance of coexistence. That is was what particularly caught my interest.

It is an art to coexist and, according to Said, regarding the conflict between israel and palestine one must first overcome the racist legacy of orientalism, which emphasizes the separation of people from one another. This means “reinterpreting” history and becoming someone else in the sense of getting away from seeing yourself as an unity identity but as a part of the whole, to see yourself in relation to others and to understand them as you understand yourself. That requires a lot of creativity and acceptance.

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Climate Colonialism - Ann Pettifor & Hamza Hamouchene

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Climate Colonialism - Ann Pettifor & Hamza Hamouchene

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Starting with explaining green colonialism as the way how the imperialistic system maintains the global hierarchies and inequalities in relation to sustainability, this podcast discusses the issues of climate justice and draws attention to the fact that even the definitive crisis of climate change cannot be discussed without the problems of financialisation, land theft and resource extraction.

Ann Pettifor, a political economist and Hamza Hamouchene, researcher and activist, educate about the power relations within our system and the injustices regarding the lack of finances and technology in countries in the global south, pointing out that these Struggles are an international problem.

Giving examples of Israel as a “green superior technology power” Hamza shows how colonialism and racism is still included into our economic system and how “saving the world at any cost” works as a shield for exploitation.

While these exploitative practices are presented as easy fixes, the left tries to make changes inside the system when it’s the whole imperialist system that has to change, to tackle the real issue and find solutions not only for the global north.

Ann concludes this is happening because of the lack of understanding of what is really going on, since the question to ask here is: how do we come together and challenge that system?

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Myriam Mihindou is a French Gabonese Artist born in 1964. During her career, she lived in many countries on the African continent and around the Indian Ocean, which impacted her Artistic making. Working with Sculpture, drawing, performance, or still/moving images, her art deals with the way we absorb the places where we live ( physical and mental impacts of trauma caused by colonial or oppressive systems).

She focuses on bodies wounded by the power struggles, oppressions and violence that plague the human condition.

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relationship between scholasticide and genocide

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relationship between scholasticide and genocide

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scholasticide:

intentional destruction of cultural heritage: archives, libraries & museums

killing, causing bodily & mental harm, incarcerating, systematically harassing educators, students, administrators

besieging, closing, obstructing access to educational institutions

using universities/schools as military base (done with Al-Israa University)

genocide

first drafted by Raphael Lemkin in 1943: “attacking a culture was a way of committing genocide, and not a different type of genocide.”

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Paglen and Appelbaum - Autonomy Cube --> open, interactive system seeking refuge in art spaces to partially close itself off & prohibit physical interference

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Hg. von Edit Molnár & Marcel Schwierin (für das Edith-Russ-Haus)

Dieses Buch wurde in Verbindung mit der Ausstellung Autonomy Cube veröffentlicht.

Mit Texten von Keller Easterling und Luke Skrebowski

dt/en, 107 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen

Erscheinungsdatum: Februar 2016

Design: Katarina Šević
Gefördert von: Niedersächsiches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stiftung Niedersachsen