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What practices constitute the commons? What are the conditions of the
situated processes of commoning? What and how do we thereby learn? What
would constitute a new sense of sharing, distributing, partaking? And,
how can we take the idea of relationality seriously and institute
structures of reciprocity between art, academia, and activism? To address
these questions the round table commoning/communing brings together three
projects focusing on urban practices of commoning.
Am Beispiel unserer Arbeit an der Ausstellung und Lecture Performance G20
reflektieren wir, was Teilen und Lernen im interdisziplinären
Zusammenarbeiten zwischen einem Künstler und einer Wissenschaftlerin
bedeuten kann: was haben wir gemeinsam gelernt, was haben wir als
Einzelne gelernt? Welche Arten des Teilens haben funktioniert, wo
bestehen Brücken zwischen dem jeweilig Eigenem (was immer das ist) und wo
bleiben Lücken?
Wir stellen zunächst den Prozess in einem gemeinsamen Textteil dar und
teilen die Reflektion in je eigene Textteile auf. Zum Abschluss suchen
wir wieder eine gemeinsame Sprech- bzw. Schreibposition. Dabei reden wir
notwendigerweise aus der Position von Produzent*innen und nicht als
Rezipient*innen.
The round table instituting/fleeing addresses collective practices as
forms of resistance against power asymmetries – as activist strategies.
It focuses on the entangled dynamics between fleeing and occupying the
institution and the role institutional critique plays in these dynamics.
We will map out our different collective practices by posing questions,
such as: How can we understand the different ways the institution and the
collectives are linked? How to create collectives within the institution?
How can collectives flee or occupy the institution? Who can flee and
where to? How do institutions appropriate and destroy collective
structures?
The Practice of Resistance
(2021)
In June 2019, I held the workshopcooking, playing and sharing at the
symposium sharing/learning: methods of the collective in art, research
and activism by the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg “Das Wissen der Künste”, Berlin
University of the Arts (UdK), at/in cooperation with District * School
without Center.
I invited guests to explore how to come together spontaneously,
creatively and intuitively for preparing a feast without previously
knowing the recipe and without a recipe. The main idea was how to make a
meal with the ingredients, we would have available, and share it between
the participants of the event. Noncooking Knowledge was required. As it
usually happens in my proposals, the practice has taken other directions.
What are the reasons behind a newfound popularity of collectives within
art economies? Could it be that collective practices are a necessary
answer to the challenges faced by (creative) workers in late capitalist
society? To reflect these questions, we take this text as a starting
point to try to critically assess our own personal history as an internetbased
research collective.
This text was part of the opening to the symposium sharing/learning:
methods of the collective in art, research and activism and was read on
28th June 2019, in English, by two members of the organizing team, as
introductory words. The text deliniates the central questions from which
the two-day gathering arises, as well as its methodologies and actors.
Many formulations originate from previously written concept papers, which
were used to present the project for various purposes. These in turn are
informed by the many conversations that took place within the
organizational team – a group of people whose constellation was shifting
along the way – orally as well as in writing.
Ausgehend von der asiatischen Tradition der Gelehrtensteine lotet Su-Ran
Sichling das Verhältnis von Natur und Kultur aus. In ihrer
Auseinandersetzung mit den Werkstoffen der Nachkriegsmoderne,
insbesondere Terrazzo und Waschbeton, beobachtet sie Bezüge zwischen der
Pseudonatürlichkeit der Materialien und der Pseudonatur einer Geschichte
der BRD, die sich erst langsam als Einwanderungsland zu verstehen
beginnt. Dabei fragt ihre Arbeit auch, inwieweit sich ein sinnlicher,
materialitätsbetonter künstlerischer Ansatz mit einer Agenda der artistic
research verträgt, die im Zusammenhang mit dekolonialen Debatten Inhalte
häufig gegenüber der Form privilegiert.
Das verstreute Material, das die Tournee des Indischen Balletts der Leila
Roy-Sokhey alias Madame Menaka 1936 bis 1938 durch Deutschland und Europa
dokumentiert, ist die Grundlage der in diesem Beitrag dargelegten
Überlegungen über das Ordnen, Präsentieren und die künstlerische
Erforschung eines globalen und intersektionalen Ereignisses zwischen
Deutschland und Indien. Die komplexen Prozesse der Begegnung, Aushandlung
und Neukonfiguration von Wissen im transkulturellen Kontext sollen
darüber hinaus Gegenstand einer künstlerischen Auseinandersetzung werden.
In response to this issue’s call to “engage aesthetic processes of
remembering,” this paper analyses Fair Play (2014), a stereoscopic 3-D
cinema installation by Toronto-based filmmaker Ali Kazimi. Produced in
conjunction with the centennial anniversary of the arrival and detainment
of the Komagata Maru steamship in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,
the installation engages in an act of critical commemoration by imagining
the lives of members of the South Asian diaspora affected by this
incident. I argue that by centering affect within the formal and
conceptual framework of the installation, Kazimi produces a decolonial
aesthetic that restructures our relationship to this past, bringing to
the fore ways of living and knowing that had previously been devalued and
violently erased by colonial agendas and neoliberal art historical
critiques.
‘Looking Back Forward_Quip Nayr’ is based on the Aymara concept of time
and space called ‘qhip nayr’. As the Bolivian sociologist Silvia Rivera
Cusicanqui refers to it, ‘quip nayr’ is a way of looking into the past to
orient your path to the future. I use this concept to reflect on
processes of change, concerning language, identity and place. Expressing
identity on fabric recuperates my ancestors’ tradition from the Andean
region in Abya Yala (Latinamerica). The layering of textiles is inspired
by Gloria Anzaldúa, who uses fabrics as a synonym to talk about the
construction of identity in her concept ‘Haciendo Caras’.
Zeitgenössische Theaterstücke von etlichen afrikanischen und afrodiasporischen
Künstler_innen weisen im Theater eine Vielzahl ästhetischer
Verfahren innerhalb eines breiten Spektrums dekolonialer Ästhetiken auf.
Kunstschaffende bringen – so die zentrale These – eine Ästhetik des
Aufruhrs hervor, die nicht allein mit dem Prinzip des delinking zu fassen
ist, sondern Prinzipien der Erhebung, des Aufschreis und des Verlachens
umfassen. Künstler_innen kritisieren und dekonstruieren mittels
satirischer, absurder und grotesker Elemente koloniale und postkoloniale
Herrschaftsverhältnisse und nutzen das Verlachen von Gewaltverhältnissen
als eine wichtige subversive Strategie. Diese These exploriere ich anhand
des Stücks Im Namen des Vaters, des Sohnes und des J.M. Weston des
kongolesischen Dramatikers Julien Mabiala Bissila.
For Issue 8 of wissenderkuenste.de, filmmaker Ali Kazimi has contributed
five images from an anaglyph version of his installation Fair Play. The
principle is simple: Each stereo image consists of a pair of images: one
for the left eye and the other for the right eye. All stereo viewing
systems seek to isolate the images, so the left sees only the one
intended for it, and the right sees the one intended for it. Our brain
creates the perception of a 3D image while viewing a 2D screen by fusing
these two slightly offset images together. Fair Play brings together all
strands of Kazimi’s research including stereoscopic 3D filmmaking,
stereoscopic 3D photographic history and images, as well as early
twentieth-century Canadian immigration history and colonialism.
In seinem Vortrag diskutierte Friedrich Balke den Film Havarie von Philip
Scheffner als eine komplexe Auseinandersetzung mit dem von Hans
Blumenberg eingeführten Topos Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer. Ganz ähnlich der
Videoaufnahmen der Zuschauenden, die als Ausgangsmaterial des Films die
Havarie beweisen, haben wir versucht, die Vortragssituation in der
Berliner Universität der Künste mittels eines 3D-Laser-Scans festzuhalten.
With her photographic series Character Recognition (2006–2007) U.S.
artist Myra Greene examines historical constructions of race and racist
ways of looking from a perspective that undermines the assumed neutrality
of photography. She transforms the old ambrotype technique and encourages
to reflect on the power that visual technologies hold over the
representation of race and identity. Greene recalls yet disobeys
nineteenth-century ethnographic visual practices and looking
instructions, creating a technical and metaphorical deferral of the past
into the present and of the present into the past. Her photographic
practice unveils the ongoing violent effects of nineteenth-century
scientific racism on present-day bodies and embodied ways of looking. At
the same time, Character Recognition gives new life to the archives of
visual colonialism and experiments with photographic representation and
body memory as tools for decolonial options of non-normative (visual)
spaces.
Memoirs of Saturn
(2020)
In a set of para-fictional texts which interweaves the life of cultural
historian Dr. Shahidul Zaman with key moments in the ruptured history of
Bangladesh, the artist Omar A. Chowdhury, builds a reflexive mirror to
examine the nature of memory, of historiography, and the processes of the
art system. Recounting the history of an exhibition that was censored and
closed down in Dhaka in 2016, Chowdhury constructs a narrative that
doubles back on itself along multiple axes of the personal and public as
he and Dr. Zaman delve into the uncertainties in the presentation of
identity, the recollection of history, and the compromises of political
commitment.
In this work, I relate to the path of conocimiento, a concept developed
by Gloria Anzaldúa, which is a form of spiritual inquiry/activism,
reached via creative acts—writing, art-making, dancing, healing,
teaching, meditation, and spiritual activism. In writing and drawing, I
weave lines to different realities: the rural upbringings of the women
who raised me, my migration from the Third World, the meaning of home and
belonging, and my connection to all that exists on the planet as
political consciousness.
Looking at examples of presenting practices in Berlin and Toronto, this
essay sketches the difficulties that arise when embarking on a curatorial
practice with a decolonial impulse. This text is a partner to “On
Smuggling and Drawing. A Conversation in Blocks”, a dialogue between
curator Juana Awad and artist Luisa Ungar, written in 2020 and appearing
in the publication Künste dekolonisieren. Ästhetische Praktiken des
Lernens und Verlernens (edited by Julian Bauer, Maja Figge, Lisa
Grossmann, Wilma Lukatsch; Berlin, Transcript Verlag, forthcoming.)
But while the dialogue focuses on Ungar’s creation process of the over
one hundred original drawings intervening throughout the publication,
this essay brings to the forefront Awad’s questions about, and
experiences and observations with the mingling of the curatorial and the
decolonial, from her perspective as a curator and cultural worker.
Within documentary practices the relationship between fact and fiction is
constantly renegotiated. The films and videos by John Smith address this
relationship in a special way, disarrange it, and in doing so, reveal the
conditions of producing filmic truth. We invited John Smith to show his
films and comment on them in this regard. Here we present audio
recordings of his statements and short descriptions of the films he
referred to. In the following text, film scholar Volker Pantenburg points
out the importance of John Smith’s voice in his films, it creates a
reflexive level. In a similar way, the audio files create a commentary
level for the films in this article. Additional drawings by the Berlin
based artist Maxim Bauer illustrate the conversational character of the
evening.