<nettime-ann> Vienna, 9 June 2018: Conference "After Audience"

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After Audience

A conference convened by the Midstream project

9 June 2018
Belvedere 21, Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Vienna

With Manuel Borja-Villel (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid), Christoph Brunner (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg), Boris Buden (eipcp permanent fellow), Lucie Kolb (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel), Solvita Krese (Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art Riga), Brigitta Kuster (Humboldt-Universität Berlin), Isabell Lorey (Universität Kassel), Kelly Mulvaney (University of Chicago), Stefan Nowotny (Goldsmiths, University of London), Gerald Raunig (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste), Stella Rollig (Belvedere Wien), Ruth Sonderegger (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien).
Moderation: Monika Mokre (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) and Luisa Ziaja (Belvedere Wien)

Twentieth-century European social democracy wanted to make the “uneducated classes” into the audience of high culture. Social advancement through education, culture for all, and finally, with a turn from reception to production: culture by all. Around and after the translocal events of 1968, the practices broadly tested in these programs in “the West” and elsewhere provoked all kinds of successes and failures, culminating in the band collective, the commune, and the dissolution of art into life. At some point in the final decades of the twentieth century, this emancipatory narrative tipped into a dystopian one. Participation became an imperative, joining a principle, and self‑activation – so as to not completely exclude oneself from social media and self‑governing networks – a duty. For its part, neoliberal management wants to measure the audience to the utmost detail and "tap into" new audiences that can be measured. Here, too, a circle reaches its completion: from the audience of high art to the audit, the examination of performance figures as new high art. Eventually, the amalgam of these very different policies became a key aspect of the Creative Europe program as “audience development”.

After the Publicum conference held in Luneburg in 2005, which considered questions of reception in the arts and beyond through the prism of theories of the public, eipcp and its partners are now attempting once more to question the concept and practice of audience. The international conference After Audience is intended to move beyond evidence and criticism of the participation imperative and the delusion of quantification to ask questions about the successors to the figure once called an audience. What has become of this figure in times of the participation imperative? How can disobedient-activist collectives be imagined in machinic capitalism? How can we connect with the narratives and practices of 1968, which were not least feminist, anti-colonial and anti‑capitalist? What potentials can today be attributed to technopolitical aspects of these questions? How can we conceptualize a new figure of the technecological middle or milieu in the place of the publicum as a bourgeois public sphere, as a mode of subjectivation that transgresses the distinction of production and reception and at the same time permits a new emancipatory turn?

PROGRAM

11:00-11:15 Welcome und Introduction

11:15-12:30 After Audience
Manuel Borja-Villel / Stella Rollig

12:45-14:00 After Experience
Boris Buden / Solvita Krese

14:15-15:30 After Resistance
Christoph Brunner / Kelly Mulvaney

15:30-16:15 Break

16:15-17:30 After Production
Brigitta Kuster / Stefan Nowotny

17:45-19:00 After Representation Before Study
Isabell Lorey / Ruth Sonderegger

19:00-20:00 Buffet Dinner

20:00-21:30 After e-flux
Lucie Kolb / Gerald Raunig

The conference languages are German and English, with translation by Herwig Bauer and Alexander Zigo.
 
Download flyer: http://midstream.eipcp.net/sites/default/files/flyer-en.jpg
Video documentation: http://midstream.eipcp.net/after-audience

http://midstream.eipcp.net
http://transversal.at
http://www.belvedere21.at 

The conference has been organized by eipcp as part of Midstream in cooperation with Belvedere 21.

Midstream is a joint project of eipcp (Vienna), LCCA - Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (Riga) and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid).

         

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