[English below]

Du inviteres til et foredrag/talk af Sven Lütticken, som det andet arrangement, der lancerer foredragsserien "Experts of the Undercommons", arrangeret af forfatter, forsker og redaktør Tobias Dias, post-doc ved Aarhus Universitet, i samarbejde med Kunsthal Aarhus.

OM FOREDRAGET
Mange samtidige kunstneriske praksisser eksperimenterer med form. Hinsides snævre kunstneriske interesser implicerer dette engagement ofte fundamentale sociale og politiske debatter om spørgsmål vedrørende hierarki, horisontalitet og centralisering. At give form til verden er også at (om)organisere den. På baggrund af 1990ernes og 2000ernes debatter omkring diskurser og praksisser som ’relationel æstetik’ og ’tactical media’ aftegner denne talk en ’organisatorisk æstetik,’ som udviklet (sommetider på modsætningsfyldte måder) af nogle af de samtidens mest relevante, kunstnere, aktivister, teoretikere og kollektiver.

Foredraget er støttet af Novo Nordisk Fonden.

BIOGRAFI
Sven Lütticken, født i Kempen, Tyskland, er kunsthistoriker og kunstkritiker. Lütticken er lektor ved Leiden Universitets Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, hvor han superviserer ph.d.-projekter i PhDArts-programmet. Herudover koordinerer han forskningsmasteruddannelsen Critical Studies in Art and Culture ved Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Her underviser han også i kurser på både bachelor- og masterniveau.
Lütticken udgiver jævnligt i tidsskrifter og magasiner som New Left Review, Texte fur Kunst, e-flux journal, Grey Room og Afterall, og bidrager til kataloger og udstillinger som skribent eller gæstekurator. Lütticken er redaktør af ”Art and Autonomy” (Afterall, 2022) og har for nylig udgivet ”Objections: Forms of Abstraction, Vol. 1” (Sternberg Press, 2022).

Billede: Arts Collaboratory at Documenta fifteen, Kassel (2022); Artist Organisations International at HAU, Berlin (2015).



[English]

You are invited to a talk by Sven Lütticken, as the second event launching the talks series "Experts of the Undercommons" organized by writer, researcher and editor Tobias Dias, post-doc student at Aarhus University, in collaboration with Kunsthal Aarhus. 

ABOUT THE TALK
Many contemporary art practices experiment with form. Going beyond narrowly artistic concerns, this engagement often involves fundamental social and political debates on questions of hierarchy, horizontality, and centralization. To give form to the world is also to (re)organize it. Against the background of 1990s and early 2000s debates on the discourses and practices of ‘relational aesthetics’ and ‘tactical media’, this talk will outline an ‘organizational aesthetics’ as developed (in sometimes contradictory ways) by some of today's most relevant artists, activists, theorists, and collectives.

The talk is supported by Novo Nordisk Fonden.

BIOGRAPHY
Sven Lütticken, born in Kempen, Germany, is an art historian and art critic. Lütticken is associate professor at Leiden University’s Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, where he supervises PhD projects in the PhDArts programme. In addition, he coordinates the research master's program Critical Studies in Art and Culture at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Here he also teaches courses on the bachelor and master level.
Lütticken publishes regularly in journals and magazines such as New Left Review, Texte fur Kunst, e-flux journal, Grey Room and Afterall, and contributes to catalogues and exhibitions as writer or guest curator. Lütticken is the editor of the reader “Art and Autonomy” (Afterall, 2022) and he has recently published “Objections: Forms of Abstraction, Volume 1” (Sternberg Press, 2022).

Image: Arts Collaboratory at Documenta fifteen, Kassel (2022); Artist Organisations International at HAU, Berlin (2015).