ISMS 1: Recuperating Political Radicality in Contemporary Art

Constructing the Political in Contemporary Art

School of Architecture and Design, Oslo

A seminar organized by Office for Contemporary Art Norway

"The painfullness of experimentation finds response in the animosty towards the so-called isms: Programmatic, self-concious, and often collective art movements"
Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory

This first seminar on the subject of ISMS: Recuperating Political Radicality 1. "Constructing the Political in Contemporary Art" focuses on the complex and problematic relationships between artistic movements, political movements, and individual works. Specific focus is placed on current dilemmas facing art production, how it is for a work to function "critically" today, and how this relates to or in fact, neglects, politics.

Thursday, 20 April

13:00: Introduction

Marta Kuzma (Office for Contemporary Art Norway)

13:30

Imaginary Radicalism: Notes on the Libertarianism Of Contemporary Art
Peter Osborne (Center for Research in Moderen European Philosophy, London, UK)

15:00

Film as a Vehicle for Social Changes
Hito Steyerl (Artist and Filmmaker, Munich, Germany)

16:30

Coffee Break

17:00

What to do with what is Left?
Marius Wulfsberg (Dept. of Literature, University of Oslo, Norway)

Friday, 21 April

11.00

Otto Muehl – On Painting Considered as a Communist (Non) Art
Éric Alliez (Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy, London, UK)

12.00

Anti-Capitalism
Stewart Martin (Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy, London, UK)

13:00

Break

14:30

A Seam with the Economic: Art, Architecture, Metropolis
David Cunningham (School of Social Sciences, Humanities & Languages, University of Westminister, London, UK)

15:30

Art, Television and Biopolitics
Ina Blom (Dept. of Art History, University of Oslo, Norway)

17:00

Conclusion

ISMS1 is supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway and organized by OCA in cooperation with The Center for Research in Moderen European Philosopy (CMREP) Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and Oslo Architectual Association (OAF)
Supported by Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and Oslo Architectual Association (OAF)