Artistic Activism and
Knowledge Production
31 05 2009 | 19.00
Ehemalige Kunststoffhandlung Wettlinger
Neulerchenfelder Straße 8, 1160 Wien
On this evening, three cultural workers who are each engaged in theorizing
social conditions and political possibilities in combination with concrete
activist efforts gather to discuss effects of the economic and political
crisis. With particular attention paid to the question of art as/and knowledge
production the evening will be a time to think broadly about the possibilities
of political aesthetics in this critical moment of ours.
US-based artists Gregory Sholette
(New York City) and Dan S. Wang (Madison/Chicago) will talk about the
conditions and opportunities for artistic activism in a time of multiple
crises. The discussion will revolve around consequences of the change of
US-adminstration from Bush to Obama, new challenges for activist art and recent
forms of resistance in knowledge production.
Moderator: Gerald Raunig, eipcp
A co-operation between SOHO in
Ottakring and creatingworlds.eipcp.net