After Audience
A conference convened by the Midstream project
9 June 2018
Belvedere 21, Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Vienna
With Manuel Borja-Villel (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid),
Christoph Brunner (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg), Boris Buden (eipcp permanent
fellow), Lucie Kolb (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel), Solvita Krese
(Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art Riga), Brigitta Kuster
(Humboldt-Universität Berlin), Isabell Lorey (Universität Kassel), Kelly
Mulvaney (University of Chicago), Stefan Nowotny (Goldsmiths, University of
London), Gerald Raunig (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste), Stella Rollig
(Belvedere Wien), Ruth Sonderegger (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien).
Moderation: Monika Mokre (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) and
Luisa Ziaja (Belvedere Wien)
Twentieth-century European social democracy wanted to make the “uneducated
classes” into the audience of high culture. Social advancement through
education, culture for all, and finally, with a turn from reception to
production: culture by all. Around and after the translocal events of 1968, the
practices broadly tested in these programs in “the West” and elsewhere provoked
all kinds of successes and failures, culminating in the band collective, the
commune, and the dissolution of art into life. At some point in the final
decades of the twentieth century, this emancipatory narrative tipped into a
dystopian one. Participation became an imperative, joining a principle, and
self‑activation – so as to not completely exclude oneself from social media and
self‑governing networks – a duty. For its part, neoliberal management wants to
measure the audience to the utmost detail and "tap into" new audiences that can
be measured. Here, too, a circle reaches its completion: from the audience of
high art to the audit, the examination of performance figures as new high art.
Eventually, the amalgam of these very different policies became a key aspect of
the Creative Europe program as “audience development”.
After the Publicum conference held in Luneburg in 2005, which considered
questions of reception in the arts and beyond through the prism of theories of
the public, eipcp and its partners are now attempting once more to question the
concept and practice of audience. The international conference After Audience
is intended to move beyond evidence and criticism of the participation
imperative and the delusion of quantification to ask questions about the
successors to the figure once called an audience. What has become of this
figure in times of the participation imperative? How can disobedient-activist
collectives be imagined in machinic capitalism? How can we connect with the
narratives and practices of 1968, which were not least feminist, anti-colonial
and anti‑capitalist? What potentials can today be attributed to technopolitical
aspects of these questions? How can we conceptualize a new figure of the
technecological middle or milieu in the place of the publicum as a bourgeois
public sphere, as a mode of subjectivation that transgresses the distinction of
production and reception and at the same time permits a new emancipatory turn?
PROGRAM
11:00-11:15 Welcome und Introduction
11:15-12:30 After Audience
Manuel Borja-Villel / Stella Rollig
12:45-14:00 After Experience
Boris Buden / Solvita Krese
14:15-15:30 After Resistance
Christoph Brunner / Kelly Mulvaney
15:30-16:15 Break
16:15-17:30 After Production
Brigitta Kuster / Stefan Nowotny
17:45-19:00 After Representation Before Study
Isabell Lorey / Ruth Sonderegger
19:00-20:00 Buffet Dinner
20:00-21:30 After e-flux
Lucie Kolb / Gerald Raunig
The conference languages are German and English, with translation by Herwig
Bauer and Alexander Zigo.
Download flyer: http://midstream.eipcp.net/sites/default/files/flyer-en.jpg
Video documentation: http://midstream.eipcp.net/after-audience
http://midstream.eipcp.net
http://transversal.at
http://www.belvedere21.at
The conference has been organized by eipcp as part of Midstream in cooperation
with Belvedere 21.
Midstream is a joint project of eipcp (Vienna), LCCA - Latvian Centre for
Contemporary Art (Riga) and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid).
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