TkH (Walking Theory), 19: Politicality of Performance (2011) [Serbian/English]

“In a broader historical perspective, the social position of art seems relatively marginal, which could serve as a possible starting point to think about what the politicality of performance might mean today. It seems that the political relevance of art has become disputable, due to its commercialisation and commodification by the entertainment and creative industries, the mass media’s at least partial appropriation of its political relevance, and an overall “aestheticisation of life” in the 20th century, to name only a few possible factors. But at the same time, the topic itself has been attracting more and more theoretical and artistic attention. We devote this issue of the TkH journal to the topic of the politicality of performance because we want to open up more space for thinking about these two seemingly irreconcilable tendencies. The discussion may include (but is not limited to) questions such as the following: What is the meaning of these notions nowadays and how are they disconnected or interconnected? Why do we find the proposed topic important or, to put it simply, why is there such a preoccupation with the political in the performing arts today? Might it merely be an alibi concocted to secure the support of public funds and various other foundations? Maybe it is just a desperate attempt to be recognised as a socially relevant practice instead of being dismissed as an elitist type of entertainment? Or is it just the neo-liberal capitalist state of affairs, which blurs the borders between different social practices and where some old questions – such as how we practise politics and where politics is located today – are still waiting for an answer?” (from the introduction)

The topic of this issue was researched in the context of TkH project “Performance and the Public” produced at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers.

With contributions by Sezgin Boynik, Gregory Sholette, Grupa Umetnost kao politika/Group Art and/as Politics (Aneta Stojnić, Ana Isaković, Marko Đorđević i Sava Jokić), Aleksandra Jovićević, Bojana Kunst, Aldo Milohnić, Gerald Raunig, Janelle Reinelt, Jelena Vesić, Ana Vujanović.

TkH, Journal for Performing Arts Theory, 19
Edited by Ana Vujanović and Aldo Milohnić
Published by TkH (Walking Theory) theoretical-artistic platform, Belgrade, December 2011
Creative Commons License BY-NC-SA 3.0 Serbia
ISSN 1451-0707
164 pages

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transversal, 01/12: Unsettling Knowledges (2012) [EN, DE, FR, ES, HI]

“The crises within cognitive capitalism and cognitive labor are mirrored in the reproduction and exacerbation of global divisions of labor and the emergence of new forms of exploitation as part of a regime of flexible capital accumulation. While drastic austerity measures and heightened control mechanisms lead to a radical transformation of the welfare state on the one hand, new networks of communication, struggle and alternative forms of knowledge emerge on the other.

This issue of transversal attempts to review some of the general assumptions of a theory of cognitive capitalism and to unsettle the very notions of knowledge and its production, discussing the conditions of its capture, its “re-invention” and its capacity for creating worlds. The individual essays follow the lines of a (post-)colonial historicity and a feminist and geopolitical critique of capitalist valorization, thereby questioning the materiality of knowledge and its production in relation to resources and bodies, as well as how art and knowledge production are interwoven with political struggles.”

With contributions by Lina Dokuzović, Silvia Federici, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Therese Kaufmann, Christian Kravagna, Brigitta Kuster, Sandro Mezzadra, Walter Mignolo, Raimund Minichbauer

Editors: Aileen Derieg, Lina Dokuzović, Marcelo Expósito, Therese Kaufmann, Raimund Minichbauer, Radostina Patulova, Gerald Raunig
Publisher eipcp – European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, Vienna/Linz
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ISSN 1811-1696

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Subjectivity 5(1): Collective Becomings (2012)

Subjectivity is an international, transdisciplinary journal examining the social, cultural, historical and material processes, dynamics and structures of human experience.

“This issue of Subjectivity can be thought of as the first major engagement with Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi’s work in English. It is not just a collection of essays that take Bifo’s ideas as their starting point, but rather a collection of essays that all start from the conjuncture of Bifo’s ideas, the issues and conditions raised by them, with forms of collective becomings in the present. The purpose then is not to consider Bifo’s work in isolation, but rather to develop it as a tool, one that is explored through continued usage and application.” (from Editorial)

With contributions by Dave Eden, Abe Walker, Anja Kanngieser, Michael Goddard, Giuseppina Mecchia, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi

Edited by Stevphen Shukaitis and Joanna Figiel
Published April 2012
ISSN 1755-6341

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