Iniciado en febrero de 2018, el proyecto de investigación Genealogía de la amnesia: repensar el pasado para un nuevo futuro de convivencia (Genealogy of Amnesia: Rethinking the Past for a New Future of Conviviality) se centra en la amnesia y las políticas de silencio y olvido que han dado forma a la constitución de los […]
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“Genealogy of Amnesia: Rethinking the Past for a New Future of Conviviality” is the title of an interdisciplinary, arts and theory based research project. It is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through its Programme for Arts-based Research (PEEK). The project is led by Marina Gržinić and developed at the Studio of Conceptual Art (Post-Conceptual Art Practices), Institute for Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
The aim of “Genealogy of Amnesia: Rethinking the Past for a New Future of Conviviality” is to understand how processes of empowerment are built against the politics of collective forgetting and silence. The research is focussed on political, social, ideological, and cultural mechanisms that produce collective amnesia — such as antisemitism, racialization, political and economic dispossession, gender discrimination, or hegemonic nationalism.[…]
Understanding practice as a network of connections from one theoretical point to another, and theory as a network of connections between one practice and another, kronotop.org is conceptualized as a research project committed to action, theoretical and practical.
With the intention to relate art, activism, politics and critical theory, and in the search for situations that encourage dialogue and collaborative networks, kronotop.org opens a collective space to think about the politics of positioning, critical interventions, limits of representation, as well as current conditions of art production and distribution. It is is a space for sharing ideas which can be rethought, rearticulated, expanded or used by other persons or groups in different contexts of their political actions.
““Artist-proletarians” are everywhere – the question is when they will be transformed into a new class which could shape a new emancipatory vision of the future and stop being a simple service-labor army for the hyper bourgeoisie.”
Interview with Dmitry Vilensky (Chto delat?) about postcommunism, autonomy, power of dialectics, Brecht’s methods and their videos: “Perestroika Songspiel: Victory Over the Coup”, “Partisan Songspiel: A Belgrade Story” and “Museum Songspiel: the Netherlands 20XX”.
Barcelona/St.Petersburg, October, 2013
Migration, Sex, History: Africa/Europe.
A Research into Labor, Theory, Activism and Migration from Africa into Europe in the 21st Century.(Why is Africa cursed in Europe?)
FILM by Marina Gržinić/Aina Šmid + Tjaša Kancler (Slovenia, Austria, Spain) (2014)
Let’s say “Each generation necessarily engages in a process of rewriting/reconstituting the past. Film makers have to paint their own landscapes; they must breathe new life into each moment in cinema. That can only be achieved when practitioners have mapped out the field of visual representations and the film techniques they wish to deploy.” – Reece Augiste, Member Black Audio Film Collective (BAFC)
Departing from a tradition in politically engaged art experimental projects, we want to make a film to reflect on Europe and its borders, elaborating different conditions for living and acting. This is coming as an imperative. It is a question of establishing new possibilities for forming a different, but counter, almost bastard, dissident history of Europe, better to say of EU, that is, of migration, empowerment and reflection. Transsexual and defiant. The film strives to produce another history and to delink itself from conventionality of the melodramatic language and narratives presented by official film productions.