Prof. Dr. Sabeth Buchmann, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

„Aesthetic Systems”

In view of those artistic-cinematic forms of work emerged in the course of the 1990s and 2000s one can recognize a notion of art (and art history) that is of particular interest in the intersection of material space and ‘immaterial' media: An intersection which tends to blur rigid notions of the art object in terms of installation, displays and/ or props. In those exhibitions we are confronted with a phenomenality that traces back to general changes in the conceptualizations of art explicitly developed over the course of the 1960s. As will be exemplified by Martin Beck's exhibition “Panel 2 Nothing better than a Touch of Ecology and Catastrophe to Unite the Social Classes” (2008/09) it has been the manifold conjunctions of the art object and film that serve as a possibility to (re-)format distinctive notions of work and authorship in terms of system-based media. One of the central questions will hereby point to the shifting understandings of and contact zones between aesthetic, scientific and social activities.

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Sabeth Buchmann is Professor of the History of Modern and Postmodern Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Her publications include: Film Avantgarde Biopolitik (ed. with Helmut Draxler and Stephan Geene, 2009), Denken gegen das Denken. Produktion – Technologie – Subjektivität bei Sol LeWitt, Yvonne Rainer und Hélio Oiticica (2007), Art After Conceptual Art (ed. with Alexander Alberro, 2006). Co-editor of PoLyPen – a book series on art criticism, aesthetics and political theory (b_books, Berlin) and of Exhibition Histories (London/ Afterall). Board member of Texte zur Kunst/ Berlin.