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Seminar
Prof. Dr. Birte Kleine-Benne:
COMPLAINT!ivism?



Mittwochs/Wednesdays, 17 bis 18:30 Uhr
Beginn/Start: 20. Oktober 2021
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Fak. Kunst und Gestaltung

hybrid

Online:
Our Blog: https://cptv.artnextsociety.net
After advance notice: https://moodle.uni-weimar.de/mod/bigbluebuttonbn/externaljoin.php?s=68jkxLAXRqwHZ5ICTbSzlnuafGcYeDV3BNiQFt1dMOygKmW9Uh
Password: 2021/22_Complaint!ivism?

Our Etherpad-document: >>

Offline:
class 1: 20.10.2021 + 2.2.2022 (+ possibly mid-December)
class 2 (MFA): 27.10.2021 + 24.11.2021 + 26.1.2022
Marienstraße 1b - Projektraum 201



Leistungsnachweis:
1. Reading and blogging parallel to your reading (BA: at least 8 4, Dipl/MA/Ph.D.: at least 12 6 posts)
2. Presentation of 1 artistic examples in relation to our topic
3. Compilation of 1.+2. into a scientific paper until end of semester, 31 March 2022. Please email the paper as a .pdf-file, no printed document



Notes for Reading & Writing

2021, 10 weeks: Reading and writing/blogging parallel to your reading
BA: at least 8 4 entries
Dipl/MA/Ph.D.: at least 12 6 entries
Posts: short and sweet, succinct, courageous
Formats: personal text, biographical perspective, (highly) emotional text, poetic text, matter-of-fact summary, encyclopaedic entry in a dictionary, art critical text with assessment, philosophical text, historical text, text for children, photography, drawing/illustration/figure ...
Topics: content, just one quote, one sentence, one thought, language of the book, style, arguments, method, the examples used, structure of the book, rhetoric, athmosphere, prospects, the author, layout, references, guarantors, your expectations, cultural difference of complaining ...
--> different combinations of format and topic
Title for each of your entries: e.g. "First chapter", "page 24", "Summery", "Examples", "Writing Style" ...
Don’t forget the tags and your author name (your full name or your initials)
Writing check: >>
Upload every entry as a single .pdf-document @ moodle, folder "Your material", title of the document: e.g. Kleine-Benne-2021-10-20.pdf (last name - date.pdf)

2022: 4 weeks of January:
Presentation of one artistic work or the artistic work of one artist or one artistic collective or one conference or one artistic research or ..., that you see in relation to the book of Sara Ahmed (part 1), incl. connections or interconnections or differences between your choice and the book (part 2)
e.g. installation, intervention, performance, net.art, motion picture ...
e.g. Forensic Architecture, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Center for Political Beauty, Tania Bruguera, Immigrant Movement International, Migrant People Party, The Silent University, Rose Valland Institute, New World Summits (Jonas Staal), Wahlkampagne, Act Up, P.A.I.N., DecolonizeThisPlace, StrikeMoMA, Artists For Future, Not An Alternative, Alfredo Jaar, Group Material, Guerrilla Girls, Milo Rau, International Institute for Political Murder, Strike MoMA, DecolonizeThisPlace ...
e.g. genre Institutional Critique or Investigative Art or Protest Art or Illiberal Arts or Conflictual Aesthetics or Assemblism or Organizational Art or Tribunalism ...
e.g. an exhibition or an institution
Please email me your short presentation of an artistic work or similiar as a .pdf-document before (!) publishing on our blog and uploading @ moodle.

Until March 31, 2022:
Compilate your blog entries about the book and about one artistic example (e.g.) to a scientific paper about "Complaintivism" (in English or German)
approximately BA: 5,000 words, Dipl/MA: 7,000 words, Ph.D: 9,000 words --> Please don’t feel bound by the word count! But please do not go below the minimum of 1,500 words.
Deadline: 31.03.2022
Please email me the paper as a .pdf-file, no printed document



optional: Bauhaus-Complaints Choir
Project by Nadja Kraˇunovié & Margarita Garcia
WHAT DO WE NEED?: We need you to complain.
HOW?: Write your screams, pain points, triggers and itchiness/discomforts.
JOIN the chorus: Please, send your official letter of complaint to the Antidiscrimination Complaints Office, Weimar.
Antidiskriminierungs/Beschwerdebüros Weimar, Graben 13, 99423 Weimar
Or use the online form >>
DO YOU WANT TO SING? DO YOU WANT TO WRITE? DO YOU WANT TO COMPLAIN? Please, BCC us whenever you can: bauhaus.complaints [at] gmail.com







Complaint!, 2021

in 4 parts and 8 chapters

PART I INSTITUTIONAL MECHANICS:
1 Mind the Gap! Policies, Procedures, and Other Nonperformatives
2 On Being Stopped

PART II THE IMMANENCE OF COMPLAINT
3 In the Thick of It
4 Occupied

PART III IF THESE DOORS COULD TALK?
5 Behind Closed Doors: Complaints and Institutional Violence
6 Holding the Door: Power, Promotion, Progression

PART IV CONCLUSIONS
7 Collective Conclusions
by Leila Whitley, Tiffany Page, and Alice Corble, with Heidi Hasbrouck, Chryssa Sdrolia, and others
8 Complaint Collectives




Sara Ahmed, Complaint as Diversity Work, Joan S. Korenman Lecture, March 2019, ab min 8:15



Systematizing Complaining

work-in-progress

In general
What?
Why?
Who?
To whom?
How?
Where?
When?
Before complaining
After complaining



Material

E-Book Complaint!, 2021 >>

Duke University Press >>

Booklaunch Complaint! October 20, 2021, 7 pm >>

Q&A with Sara Ahmed >>

Complaint Collectives >>

Podcast on Complaint!, Oct 7, 2021 >>


Sara Ahmed: Complaint, Diversity and Other Hostile Environments May 28, 2021, from CRC Affective Societies


Sara Ahmed: Complaint!, March 22, 2021, University of Callgary
The lecture is dedicated "to all those who did complain or would complain if they could complain."


Sara Ahmed, The Wheeler Center, Oct 29, 2018

Website Sara Ahmed >>

Feminist Killyou Blog >>

Twitter feministkilljoy >>

Articles by SA >>

Sara Ahmed: After Complaint, March 13, 2022 >>

You Pose a Problem: A Conversation with Sara Ahmed, The Paris Review, Jan 14, 2022 >>

Sara Ahmed: How the Culture of the University Covers Up Abuse. On Harassment Claims and Silencing Tactics, literary.hub, September 29, 2021 >>

Sara Ahmed: citational structure is most or usual citational practice >>

Sara Ahmed: Complaint as Feminist Pedagogy, June 16, 2021 >>

Sara Ahmed: Against Students, The New Inquiry, June 29, 2015 >>

Mich Ciurria: Academic Gatekeeping Is Killing Me, 2022 >>



Further material

Articles

The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2021 Edition (Jan 1, 2022, hyperallergic) >>

Politics and Joy Come Together in an Artist's Tribute to Her Murdered Father. Elena Brokaw's work serves as a reminder of the tangible remains of American foreign interference and state-sanctioned violence in Guatemala - the pieces left over, decades after the collective American conscience has moved on (Dec 30, 2021, hyperallergic) >>

A Hong Kong University Has Swiftly Moved to Dismantle a Beloved Political Monument, Sparking Outrage (Taylor Dafoe, Dec 22 2021, artnet >>

BEST SHOWS OF 2021: David Joselit on Illiberal Arts, 12/2021, artforum >>

Artists & Collectivs

Lawrence Abu Hamdan >>

ACT UP >>

Artists For Future >>

Kader Attia >>

Black Noise >>

Tania Bruguera >>
Immigrant Movement International >>
Migrant People Party >>

catcallsofberlin >>

Chalk Back >>

Center for Artistic Activism h >>

Center for Political Beauty >>

DecolonizeThisPlace >>

Frankfurter Hauptschule >>

Andrea Fraser >>

Forensic Architecture >>

Gran Fury >>

Hans Haacke >>

Alfredo Jaar >>

Group Material >>

Guerrilla Girls >>

Las Tesis >>

Mierle Laderman Ukeles >>

Mónica Mayer >>

Not An Alternative >>

P.A.I.N. >>

Milo Rau & International Institute for Political Murder >>


Milo Rau: Performance und Politik, 13.1.2022 @ Mosse Lectures

Oliver Ressler >>

Rose Valland Institute >>

The Silent University >>

Tucumán Arde, Argentinien, 1968

Tupamaros >>

StrikeMoMA >>

Art works & initiatives

Bauhaus Complaints Choir (Nadja Kracunovic), 2021 >>

Carry That Weight (Emma Sulkowicz), 2014-15 >>

EJAtlas - Global Atlas of Environmental Justice >>

New World Summits (Jonas Staal) >>

Son en señas (Francisca Benitez), 2015 >>

The Big Picture (Robert Reich) >>

Wahlkampagne (Adrian Piper) >>

Types & exhibitions

Berliner Herbstsalon 2019: De-Heimatize It! >>

Institutional Critique >>

Investigative Art

Protest Art

Conflictual Aesthetics

Assemblism >>

Organizational Art >>

Tribunalism - Art as Process. Conference of Kunstraum of the Leuphana University October 7 and 8, 2021
Tribunalism - The Case for Art. Exhibition in the Kunstraum till november 21, 2021 >> :
"What spaces artistic tribunals open up, what can be said, what cannot be said elsewhere and in other ways, how the invocation of a juridical form relates to legal scepticism or legal criticism, how the absence of judgement in tribunals relates to other forms of protest as well as to possible consequences, and last but not least, what new legal subjects are imagined and staged."
Works on display: Zuleikha Chaudhari: Landscape as evidence: Artist as witness (2017), Tyler Coburn: Richard Roe (2019), Alice Creischer: Proudhon, die Gesellschaft des 10. Dezember und der Club der faulen Debitoren (2012), Irrenoffensive Berlin: Foucault-Tribunal (1998), Rajkamal Kahlon: Did you Kiss the Dead Body (2012ff.), Helen Knowles: The Trial of Superdebthunterbot? (2016), Abderrahmane Sissako: Das Weltgericht von Bamako (2006), Peter Spillmann und Marion von Osten: Viet Nam Diskurs (2016).

Illiberal Arts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, bis 21. November 2021 >>

Publications

Laura Raicovich 2021: Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest, Verso >>

Marchart, Oliver 2019: Conflictual Aesthetics. Artistic Activism and Public Sphere, Berlin.

The Strike MoMA Reader 2021 >>

THE COLLECTIVE EYE: Im Gespräch mit Slavs and Tatars - Überlegungen zur kollektiven Praxis 2021 >>

will be continued...







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