Live panel discussion
and book presentation with
Eva Kernbauer
together with
Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta of Raqs
Media Collective.Eva Kernbauer's new book
Art,
History, and Anachronic Interventions Since 1990 (New York: Routledge, 2021).
This
book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualise history. Examining artworks
by Kader Attia, Yael Bartana, Zarina Bhimji, Michael Blum, Matthew Buckingham, Tacita Dean, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica,
Omer Fast, Andrea Geyer, Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno, Hiwa K, Amar Kanwar, Bouchra Khalili, Deimantas Narkevičius, Wendelien
van Oldenborgh, Walid Raad, Dierk Schmidt, Erika Tan, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Art, History, and Anachronic Interventions
since 1990 undertakes a thorough methodological reexamination of the contribution of art to history writing and to its theoretical
foundations. The analytical instrument of anachrony comes to the fore as an experimental method, as will (para)fiction, counterfactual
history, testimonies, ghosts and spectres of the past, utopia, and the “juridification” of history. Eva Kernbauer argues that
contemporary art—developing its own conceptual approaches to temporality and to historical research—offers fruitful strategies
for creating historical consciousness and perspectives for political agency.
Please register beforehand
at:
kunstgeschichte@uni-ak.ac.atOn site a face
mask and 3G proof are obligatory.
Download book:Art,
History, and Anachronic Interventions Since 1990