Irit Rogoff und Ana Hoffner
Vortrag und Performance, Berlin, 24. November 2008.
Die Begegnung zwischen GeoCultures: Circuits of Art and Globalisation (Irit Rogoff) und Panic: Perverted (Ana Hoffner) stellt ein Experiment dar. Erprobt werden soll, was passiert, wenn das Thema der globalen Migration von Körpern und Bildern zugleich künstlerisch, in diesem Falle durch Anas performance, und akademisch, nämlich durch Irits Vortrag, angegangen wird. Inwiefern inspirieren sie sich gegenseitig? Welche Rolle kommt dem Publikum hierbei zu?
Irit Rogoff: GeoCultures: Circuits of Art and Globalisation
GeoCultures is an attempt to understand how a large range of current cultural practices – including fine arts, architecture and spatial practices, internet and screened media, curating and organising, sonic culture, performance, and theory – are producing new and unexpected realities within circuits of globalisation. These departures are not simply the production of new subject matter or forms, but the production of new artistic arenas which enact contemporary political conjunctions.
The conditions of recent phases of globalisation have produced a newly strained relationship between stabilities and circulations. The stabilities of citizenship and emplacement and their related access to rights, protections, inclusions, situated knowledges and legitimated cultural production, are countered by an ever increasing array of categories of those who cannot automatically assume such accesses; immigrants, migrant laborers, refugees, asylum seekers, diasporic communities not to mention the numerous bodies on the move within the circuits of mobile capital, outsourcing and franchising or those who are on the move for the gratification of various desires such as education or tourism. Such a level of bodily circulation has impacted on the very possibility of arguing ’situated knowledge‘ simply as a series of direct relations between subjects, places and epistemologies.
Irit Rogoff (Professorin für Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London) is a theorist, curator and organizer who writes at the intersections of the critical, the political and contemporary arts practices. Rogoff is Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College London University, a department she founded in 2002. Her work across a series of new ‚think tank‘ PH.D programs at Goldsmiths (Research Architecture, Curatorial/Knowledge) is focusing on the possibility of locating, moving and exchanging knowledges across professional practices, self generated forums, academic institutions and individual enthusiasms. Recent publications include: „A.C.A.D.E.M.Y“ (2006) „Unbounded – Limits Possibilities“ (2008) and forthcoming „Looking Away – Participating Singularities, Ontological Communities“ (2009). Curatorial work includes; De-Regulation with the work of Kutlug Ataman (2005-8) ACADEMY (2006), „Summit – Non Aligned Initiatives in education Culture“ (2007).
Ana Hoffner: Panic: Perverted
Foto: Claudia Peppel, © ICI Berlin
The performance Panic: Perverted is a reenactment of Valie Export’s Aktionshose: Genitalpanik (1969). It articulates the perspectives of Expanded Cinema and Body Performanc for the present. By making use of a complex media installation the performance explores possibilities of feminist counter positioning in times of global migration.
Ana Hoffner (Berlin) is performance artist and works in and on queer and migrant politics. Recent exhibitions and performances: Oktobarski Salon (Beograd 2008), Hack.Fem.East (Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2008), Rdece Zore (International Queer and Feminist Festival, Galerie Alkatraz, Ljubljana 2008), “The Making Of…” (Ladyfest Berlin 2007), “Quand les lesbiennes se font du cinema” (Feminist and Lesbian Film Festival Paris, 2006), “Isztvana: debutt” (Kontekst Gallery, Belgrade 2006).
Veranstaltet in Kooperation mit Anja Bandau, Professorin am
Institut für Latein-Amerika Studien, Freie Universität Berlin
und dem Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI Berlin).
Wann: Montag 24. November 2008, 19:30 Uhr,
Wo: ICI/Kulturlabor, Christinenstr. 18/19 (Pfefferberg Haus 8).