With : Mai Wegener / Andrea Fraser / With: Diedrich Diederichsen / Éric Alliez / Christoph Menke / Moderator: Helmut Draxler
Phantasm and Politics #8 – The Art of the Phantasm
- Dialogue
In its eighth Edition the discussion series Phantasm and Politics, developed by Helmut Draxler in collaboration with HAU Hebbel am Ufer, will host a two-day conference. Artists, philosophers and scientist will dedicate lectures and responses to the topic “Art of the Phantasm”. The event begins with the idea that no variant of critical art, no matter how reflective, is immune from becoming phantasmatic. This particularly occurs when the real is unilaterally evoked as the horizon of one's own art practice. The question arises as to whether art should be understood as that symbolic interface at which the deep ambivalence of phantasms can appear as fiction and reality, as ideology and utopia, as a scene that simultaneously reveals and shrouds. This cannot be accomplished either by a pure poetics or an internal power of art, nor by a pure external activism. Especially in today's context of festivals, biennials and project cultures, it is increasingly difficult to reveal one's own practices and to make them accessible to critical discussion. Reflexive formats themselves are not immune from becoming ideological. They are hardly in the position any more to reflect on the circumstances and conditions that they work in, and are on the verge of becoming hermetic, much like the autonomous art that they once competed against. Their claim to “truth”, “critique” and “de-ideologization” itself turns out to be an illusion. The programme includes lectures and performative presentations by philosopher Éric Alliez, psychoanalyst Mai Wegner, cultural theorist Diedrich Diederichsen, and visual artist Andrea Fraser. Art historian Isabelle Graw and philosopher Christoph Menke will extend the discussion as respondents.
Conference schedule
Friday 6.6., from 19:00:
Introduction Helmut Draxler
Lecture Mai Wegener
Lecture Andrea Fraser
Response: Isabelle Graw
Moderation: Helmut Draxler
Saturday 7.6., from 19:00:
Introduction Helmut Draxler
Lecture Diedrich Diederichsen
Lecture Éric Alliez
Response: Christoph Menke
Moderation: Helmut Draxler
Gefördert aus Mitteln des Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Präsentiert im Kontext von House on Fire mit Unterstützung des Kulturprogramms der Europäischen Union.
Media partner:
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Dates
Past
Location
HAU1
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