Video Recordings

Research Congresses

1st FORMER WEST Congress

1. Simon Sheikh: A Conceptual History of Exhibition-making

   

2. Boris Groys: Aesthetic Democracy

   

3. Cosmin Costinaş, Tom Holert and Pablo Lafuente: Conversation

   

4. David Riff and Jalal Toufic: Conversation

   

5. Thomas Boutoux and Okwui Enwezor: Conversation

   

6. Marion von Osten and Kerstin Stakemeier: Conversation

   

7. Piotr Piotrowski and Mihnea Mircan: Conversation

   

8. Nuria Enguita Mayo and Ana Longoni: Conversation

   

9. Helmut Draxler and Christian Hoeller: Conversation

   

10. Stefan Heidenreich and Jorinde Seijdel: Conversation

    

11. Charles Esche and Douglas Gordon: Conversation

    

12. Renata Salecl: Death of Money: Anxiety in Late Capitalism

    

13. Charles Esche and Maria Hlavajova: Introductory Notes

    

14. Plenary Session – Day 1

    

15. Plenary Session – Day 2

    

16. Plenary Session – Day 3

    

17. Paul Gilroy: Postcolonial Critique and the End of the West

    

18. Sarat Maharaj: Small Change of the Universal

    

19. Maria Hlavajova: Welcome

    

2nd FORMER WEST Research Congress On Horizons: Art and Political Imagination

1. (name withheld): Aesthetic Horizons

   

2. Vasif Kortun and Lisette Lagnado: Conversation

   

3. Bülent Diken and Wouter Vanstiphout: Conversation

   

4. Robert Sember and Dmitry Vilensky : Conversation

   

5. Beatriz Colomina, Jodi Dean, Vivian Rehberg, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta: Discussion

   

6. TJ Demos, Ernesto Laclau, (name withheld), and Hito Steyerl: Discussion

   

7. Julie Ault, Boris Buden, Çağlar Keyder, Peter Osborne, and Simon Sheikh: Discussion

   

8. Peter Osborne: Expecting the Unexpected: Once more on the “Horizon of Expectations”

   

9. Hito Steyerl: In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment

   

10. Boris Buden: Introduction

    

11. Fulya Erdemci: Introduction

    

12. TJ Demos: Introduction

    

13. Ernesto Laclau: On Horizons and Discourse

    

14. Maria Hlavajova: Opening Remarks

    

15. Shuddhabrata Sengupta: Practicing Art. Imagining Politics

    

16. Çağlar Keyder: Projects in the Absence of Signposts

    

17. Julie Ault: Rear view Vision: History Enthusiasm and History Anxiety

    

18. Jodi Dean: The Communist Horizon

    

19. Beatriz Colomina: The Exhibition as an Archive

    

20. Simon Sheikh: Vectors of the Possible: Art between Spaces of Experience and Horizons of Expectation

    

21. Maria Hlavajova, Fulya Erdemci, Bige Örer and Pelin Tan: Welcome

    

22. Maria Hlavajova and Simon Sheikh: Wrap up and Conclusions

    

Research Exhibitions

Olga Chernysheva: In the Middle of Things

1. Olga Chernysheva and Cosmin Costinaş: Conversation: How can realism be critical today?

   

2. David Riff: Olga Chernysheva and the New Russian Biedermeier

   

Research Interviews

1. INTERVIEW WITH Olga Chernysheva

   by Cosmin Costinaş

   

2. Interview with Aernout Mik

   by Maria Hlavajova

   

3. Interview with Boris Groys

   by Charles Esche and Maria Hlavajova

   

4. Interview with David Riff

   by Cosmin Costinaş

   

5. Interview with Dmitry Vilensky

   by Cosmin Costinaş and Maria Hlavajova

   

6. Interview with Etienne Balibar

   by Charles Esche and Maria Hlavajova

   

7. Interview with Fareed Armaly

   by Fareed Armaly, Charles Esche, Maria Hlavajova, Kathrin Rhomberg

8. Interview with Heimo Zobernig

   by Heimo Zobernig, Charles Esche, Maria Hlavajova, and Kathrin Rhomberg

9. Interview with Helmut Draxler

   by Helmut Draxler, Charles Esche, Maria Hlavajova, Kathrin Rhomberg

10. Interview with Hito Steyerl

    by Charles Esche and Maria Hlavajova

    

11. Interview with Lawrence Weiner

    by Ann Goldstein

    

12. Interview with Martin Prinzhorn

    by Charles Esche, Maria Hlavajova and Kathrin Rhomberg

    

13. Interview with Miguel López

    by Cosmin Costinaş

    

14. Interview with Paulo Herkenhoff

    by Cosmin Costinaş

    

15. Interview with Peter Pakesch

    by Maria Hlavajova and Kathrin Rhomberg

    

16. Interview with Rabih Mroué

    by Cosmin Costinaş

    

17. Interview with TJ Demos

    by Vivian Rehberg

    

Research Lectures

1. Wang Hui: 30, 60 and 100 years of Chinese transformation – The dialectic between autonomy and opening

   

2. Etienne Balibar: Cosmopolitanism and Secularism

   

3. Mark Duffield: Development, Security and Unending War

   

4. Etienne Balibar: Ideas of Europe: Identity, Civilization, and Constitution

   

5. Etienne Balibar: Migrations, Citizenship and the Limits of Territoriality

   

6. Paul Gilroy: Multiculture in Europe: Melancholia or Conviviality?

   

7. Costas Douzinas: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights: The End of Human Rights?

   

8. David Held: Reframing Global Governance: Cosmopolitanism, Democracy and the Global Order

   

9. Paul Gilroy: War, race and Europe's postcolonial melancholia

Research Seminars

Art and the Social: Exhibitions of Contemporary Art in the 1990s

1. Sabeth Buchmann, Stéphanie Jeanjean, Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, Stefan Schmidt-Wulffen: Discussion

   

2. Claire Bishop, Christian Philipp Müller, Charles Esche: Discussion

   

3. Round table of participants: Discussion

   

4. Doug Ashford, Renate Lorenz, Stefan Schmidt-Wulffen: Discussion

   

5. Doug Ashford: Lecture

   

6. Claire Bishop: Lecture

   

7. Sabeth Buchmann: Lecture

   

8. Christian Phillip Müller: Lecture

   

9. Stéphanie Jeanjean : Lecture

   

10. Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt: Lecture

    

11. Renate Lorenz : Lecture

    

12. Charles Esche: Welcome

    

Russian Avant-garde Revisited

1. Discussion – Day 1

   

2. Discussion – Day 2

   

3. Tania Bruguera: From the Perspective of a Brain-Washed Pioneer

   

4. Claire Bishop: Is Everyone an Artist?

   

5. Bik Van der Pol: Lecture

   

6. Anton Vidokle: Lecture

   

7. Peter Osborne: Lecture

   

8. Boris Groys: Repetition of Revolution: Russian Avant-garde Revisited

   

9. Charles Esche: Welcome

   

10. Ekaterina Degot: What is Utopian About The Great Utopia?

    

The Diagonal of Commonfare

1. Alex Foti and Marco Baravalle: Conversation

   

2. Miguel Mellino and Francesco Raparelli: Conversation

   

3. Judith Revel and Gerald Raunig: Conversation

   

4. Round table of participants: Discussion

   

Where the West Ends?

1. Sarah Wilson, Ilya Budraitskis and Nadim Samman: Art Practices, Exhibitions and Institutions

   

2. David Riff: Autonomy in Russian art

   

3. Inke Arns: Avant-garde in the Rear-View Mirror: From Utopia under General Suspicion to a New Notion of the Utopian

   

4. Tomáš Pospiszyl, Edit András, Inke Arns: Connections to Eastern Europe

   

5. Nadim Samman: Go West!

   

6. Joanna Mytkowska and Marta Dziewańska: Introduction

   

7. Tomáš Pospiszyl: National revivals and avant-garde in Eastern Europe. An attempt at a meaningful parallel

   

8. Sarah Wilson: Olga Chernysheva: Tenderness and Danger

   

9. Alexei Penzin, Olga Bryukhovetska, Keti Chukhrov and Olga Chernysheva: Post-Soviet/ Post-Colonial

   

10. Edit Andras: Public monuments in changing societies

    

11. Boris Groys: Repetition of Revolution: Russian Avant-Garde Revisited

    

12. Boris Groys, Ekaterina Degot and David Riff: Russian art in a global context

    

13. Ekaterina Degot: Russian art: a cultural exception?