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Unter Druck ­ Under pressure

Über subjektförmige Bilder, gesellschaftliche Individuen und den neuen Geist
des Kapitalismus

Eine Konferenz in drei Sektionen, die das "Institut für Kunstkritik"
(gegründet von Daniel Birnbaum und Isabelle Graw) in Zusammenarbeit mit dem
"Institut für Sozialforschung" (Frankfurt) an der Staatlichen Hochschule für
Bildende Künste (Städelschule) in Frankfurt organisiert.

Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt. Ausführlichere
Informationen im englischen Text.

1. Sektion: Wenn Bilder subjektförmig werden
Am 30. Juni um 19 Uhr in der Aula der Städelschule
W.T.Mitchell: "What do pictures want?" (Vortrag)
Response: Sabeth Buchmann

Workshop am 1. Juli um 14 Uhr in der Aula der Städelschule
Mit W. T. Mitchell, Petra Leutner, Werner Hamacher, Antje Krause-Wahl und
den Studierenden der Städelschule sowie der HFG Offenbach:
Über Mitchells Thesen zum Begehren der Bilder, daraus resultierende
Interpretationsmöglichkeiten, sein Verständnis von Bildkritik und seinen
Vorschlag, Bilder als Lebewesen zu begreifen.

2. Sektion: Gesellschaftliche Individuen und ihre Handlungsmöglichkeiten
Am 15. Dezember um 18 Uhr in der Aula der Städelschule
Paolo Virno: "Grammatik der Multitude" (Vortrag)
Response: Martin Saar und Daniel Birnbaum

3. Sektion: Der neue Geist des Kapitalismus
Am 6. Februar 2007 um 18 Uhr in der Aula der Städelschule
Luc Boltanski: "Künstlerkritik in der projektbasierten Polis" (Vortrag)
Response: Isabelle Graw und Sighard Neckel

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Unter Druck ­ Under pressure
About subject-shaped pictures, social individuals and the new spirit of
capitalism

A conference in three parts, organized by the 'Institut für Kunstkritik'
(Institute for Art Criticism) in co-operation with the 'Institut für
Sozialforschung' (Institute for Social Research).

The aim of this conference is twofold: We want to discuss the value system
resulting from the "New Spirit Of Capitalism" with three scholars: the
Italian philosopher Paolo Virno, the French sociologist Luc Boltanski, and
the American Professor of English Language and Literature W.J.T. Mitchell.
Each of these writers has developed new tools that seem very useful for an
analysis of the present condition. But we also want to confront some of
their propositions with the realities of artistic production. Can "exit" and
"disobedience", as envisioned by Virno, be considered options from an
artistic point of view? And what would an insistence on "status" or long
term projects as invoked by Boltanski/Chiapello look like if artists where
to take on this strategy? How much can one count on pictures alone, as
Mitchell seems to do, and can pictures really change the "ways of
worldmaking"?

The idea for this conference emerged during the course of two seminars at
the Städelschule/Frankfurt, where three books were studied: Luc Boltanski &
Eve Chiapello's "The New Spirit of Capitalism," Paolo Virno's "A Grammar of
the Multitude," and W.J.T. Mitchells "What Do Pictures Want?". Despite their
differences and respective specificities, we noticed striking similarities
as far as the diagnosis of our present condition is concerned. Where Virno
emphasizes communication as the "queen of productive forces," Boltanski and
Chiapello propose their notion of a "project-based Polis" in which
information and contacts are must-haves. For Mitchell it is "Pictures" that
are alive and can speak ­ they are living symbols that contribute to
producing the conditions of the new "Empire."

1st Part: When pictures become subject-shaped
On 30th June at 7 p.m.in the Aula of the Städelschule
W.T.Mitchell: "What do pictures want?" (Lecture)
Response: Sabeth Buchmann

Workshop on 1st July at 2 p.m. with W. T. Mitchell, Petra Leutner, Werner
Hamacher, Antje Krause-Wahl and the students of Städelschule and HfG
Offenbach: About W.T. Mitchell's theses on the desire of pictures, the
resulting possibilities of interpretation, his understanding of the critique
of images and his suggestion to conceive picture
s as living things.

2nd Part: Social individuals and their possibilities of actions
On 15th December at 6 p.m. in the Aula of the Städelschule
Paolo Virno: "Grammar of the Multitude" (Lecture)
Response: Martin Saar and Daniel Birnbaum

3rd Part: The new spirit of capitalism
On 6the February, 2007 in the Aula of the Städelschule
Luc Boltanski: "Artist Critique in the projectbased Polis" (Lecture)
Response: Isabelle Graw and Sighard Neckel

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