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<nettime> Grzinic, Vienna, 8-10.11.2018, symposium GENEALOGY OF AMNESIA, MUMOK


 

8., 9., and 10. November 2018

MUMOK//, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna, Austria

SYMPOSIUM GENEALOGY OF AMNESIA

Crushing Silences, Constructing Histories
at MUMOK Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig Vienna

A symposium on the silencing of colonialism, anti-Semitism, and contemporary turbo-fascist nationalism in Belgium, Austria, and the former Yugoslavia. Re-examining counter-memory and counter-history projects, interventions, and processes of resistance in order to open up spaces for new directions in politics, futurity, and collective struggles. Organized by the FWF-project “Genealogy of Amnesia,” developed at the Studio of Conceptual Art (PCAP), Institute of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

 

PROGRAM/ FREE ENTRANCE

November 8, 2018 (Thursday)

MUMOK cinema, Museumsplatz 1, basement, 1070 Vienna

17.30–18.00

Opening: Eva Blimlinger (Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Marina Gržinić (Genealogy of Amnesia, head of research) and Sophie Uitz (GoA, researcher)

18.00–19.30

Gloria Wekker (Utrecht University): A Genealogy of Amnesia in Europe

Gloria Wekker in conversation with Birgit Sauer (University of Vienna)

 

November 9, 2018 (Friday)

MUMOK cinema, Museumsplatz 1, basement, 1070 Vienna

 

10.00–13.00

Marina Gržinić (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna): Introduction. Burdened by the past, re-thinking the future

Collectif Mémoire Coloniale et Lutte contre les Discriminations (Brussels): The Challenges of De-Colonial Movements – The Afrodescendants Facing the Colonial Denial and the Mutations of the Colonial Propaganda in Belgium

Sophie Lillie (Vienna): The Burden of Proof. How Negligence, Incompetence and Anti-Semitism Shaped Art Restitution Policies in Post-War Austria

 

15.00–16.00

Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur (Howard University, Washington DC): (Re)membering Resistances in the African Diaspora in post-Nazi Austria as “Counteramnesic Practice

 

16.15–19.00

Filmscreening The Waldheim Waltz (directed by Ruth Beckermann, Austria 2018, 93 min.)

Ruth Beckermann (Vienna) in conversation with Michael Loebenstein (Austrian Filmmuseum Vienna)

 

November 10, 2018 (Saturday)

MUMOK lounge, Museumsplatz 1, 5th floor, 1070 Vienna

 

10.00–13.00

Sefik Tatlić (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna): “New” Fascism. The Aftermath of the Europeanization of Western Balkans and the Necropolitics of Historical Revisionism

Pedro Monaville (New York University Abu Dhabi): Between Hauntology and Memory Work. The global afterlives of Belgian colonialism

Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University and University of Vienna) and Markus Rheindorf (University of Vienna): Austrian Identity after WWII: Contested Narratives and Lingering Silences

 

15.00–18.30

Sophie Uitz (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna): Rethinking Politics, Memory and History after Totalitarianism

Max Silverman (University of Leeds): Palimpsestic Memory, Ethics and Performance

Nejra Nuna Čengić (New Europe College Bucharest): What Happened, Happened!

Shirley Anne Tate (Leeds Beckett University): Love for the Dead: The Libidinal Economy of Post-race Conviviality

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This symposium is organized as part of the arts- and theory-based research project “Genealogy of Amnesia: Rethinking the Past for a New Future of Conviviality,” funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, project number AR439.

https://archiveofamnesia.akbild.ac.at

 

 

 

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