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The project
works as a
fatal openness,
full of libidinal
possibilities
of what is still
to come but,
at the same
time, including
the line of death.
The project
can therefore
be analysed
as eros and
thanatos together.
So if it wishes
to survive at
work, art needs
to rebel against
the project and
demand the
temporality of
work as duration.
The more
possibilities
the project opens
for the future,
the more time
gets sucked out
of the present.
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BOJANA
KUNST
is a philosopher, dramaturg and
performance theoretician. She is a
professor at the Institute for Applied
Theater Studies in Justus Liebig
University Giessen, where she is leading
an international master program
Choreography and Performance.
She is a member of the editorial board
of Maska Magazine, Amfiteater and
Performance Research. Her essays
have appeared in numerous journals
and publications and she has thought
and lectured extensively at the various
universities in Europe. She published
several publications, among them
Impossible Body (Ljubljana, 1999)
and Dangerous Connections: Body,
Philosophy and Relation to the Artificial
(Ljubljana, 2004), Processes of Work and
Collaboration in Contemporary Performance
(Amfiteater, Maska, Ljubljana, 2006),
Performance and Labour (Performance
Research 18.1. ed. with Gabriele Klein),
Artist at Work (Zero Books, London, 2015).
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We need to
understand the
role of artistss
work in relation
to capital, and not
just in relation
to the broader
sociological or
cultural term
capitalism.
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laboratory for discursive practices
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Bojana Kunst
Josefine Wikstrm
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M
JOSEFINE
WIKSTRM
is a writer and lecturer whose research
revolves around performance and labour.
She is a member of staff at DOCH
(Stockholm University of the Arts)
and a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths,
University of London and has also
taught at Kingston University, Det
Fynske Kunstakademie, and Kungliga
Konsthgskolan.
Her writings have been published in
journals and magazines like MUTE, Texte
Zur Kunst, Kunstkritikk, Afterall, Paletten
and Frieze and she is an associate editor
of Philosophy of Photography.
She is currently in her final year as a
PhD Candidate at the Centre for
Research in Modern European Philosophy,
Kingston University, where she
investigates the concept of performance
within contemporary art and from
the standpoint of concepts of labour
in Marx, Adorno and other thinkers.
Responsible publisher: Sarma, Tom Engels, Koning Albert II-laan 28-30 b125, B-1000 Brussels
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