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Anna Kipke (Hg.), Iryna Kovalenko (Hg.), Laura Rogalski (Hg.), Simon Teune (Hg.), Mimmi Woisnitza (Hg.)

Drafts in Action
Concepts and Practices of Artistic Intervention

Broschur, 268 Seiten

Erscheint am 23.06.2025

How do practices of artistic intervention engage with conceptual frameworks, in particular when it comes to location, institutional context, as well as human and non-human relations? What are the historical and theoretical references that fuel current approaches within the arts—performative, participatory, intervening—and in what ways do these references infer a certain tension between concepts and actions, between objectives and practices? And in what ways do these debates provide possible tools for the analysis of artistic intervention today?

This volume addresses the potentials and challenges of different forms of intervention at the intersection of activism and artistic fields and practices. The contributions, written by scholars from art history, sociology, literary and performative studies as well as art practitioners, present case studies that shed light on artistic practices that respond to geopolitical, socio-cultural, and ecological crises, as well as on curatorial projects, the organization of collectives and the role of institutions within the art field and academia. Individual contributions are accompanied by short interviews that give room to dialogues among the authors.

 

Taking a multidirectional approach that accounts for the positionality of perspectives and highlights the non-directional formation of the interventions at hand, the anthology presents and discusses current tools, methods, and analytical frameworks to address artistic interventions.

 

With contributions by Raphael Daibert, Agata Jakubowska, Amelia Jones, Anna Kipke, Iryna Kovalenko, Premesh Lalu, Natalia Moussienko, Alia Rayyan, Laura Rogalski, María Laura Rosa, Franka Schäfer, Paula Serafini, Valeria Schulte-Fischedick, Simon Teune, and Mimmi Woisnitza.

Inhalt

  • 7–8

    Preface

  • 9–34

    Manifestation, Collectiveness, Documentation: Thinking About Intervening Arts in Terms of Concept and Practice

    Anna Kipke, Mimmi Woisnitza

  • 37–58

    Performing Absence as Intervention: The Case of Lee Lozano

    Amelia Jones

  • 59–66

    Collective Performance and the Cuerpo-territorio

    Paula Serafini

  • 67–74

    Questions of What Remains

    Raphael Daibert

  • 75–90

    On the “Promise!” of Revolutionary Art Practices: Situating Asja Lācis’ “New Tendencies in Theater” (Riga, 1921)

    Mimmi Woisnitza

  • 93–108

    Socially Engaged Art Practice in Jerusalem: A Critical Reflection on Public Space Art Engagement

    Alia Rayyan

  • 109–122

    The Work of Art in the Wake of Apartheid

    Premesh Lalu

  • 123–136

    Rethinking Objectives, Theory and Practice: Studying Artists’ and Activists’ Perspectives on Impact in Empirical Research

    Laura Rogalski

  • 137–148

    Theory is & in Practice: On the Relation­ship Between the Theoretically Intended and Practical Logic of Interventions

    Franka Schäfer

  • 151–158

    Theory, Positionality, and the Public Space. Interview by Anna Kipke and Simon Teune

    Alia Rayyan, María Laura Rosa

  • 161–170

    Manifesto—Manifest—Manifestation: The Creation of Collectivity Through Text

    Simon Teune

  • 171–182

    Estado de Emergencia: Addressing (Trans) feminicide through Feminist Art and Activism

    María Laura Rosa

  • 183–196

    “I feel that the grotesque will turn into a Molotov cocktail”: Actions of Ukrainian Art Groups Before the Revolution of Dignity (2010–2013)

    Iryna Kovalenko

  • 197–204

    Traveling Practices. Interview by Anna Kipke and Simon Teune

    Agata Jakubowska, Paula Serafini

  • 207–220

    Art and War in Ukraine

    Natalia Moussienko

  • 221–234

    MANIFEST Yourself! Visualizing and Contextualizing (Queer) Feminist Manifestos in an Exhibition

    Valeria Schulte-Fischedick

  • 235–246

    On Puppets, Dolls, and Harlequins: Textile Constellations between Emma Kunz and Eva Aeppli

    Anna Kipke

  • 247–260

    The Role of the University as an Institution. Interview by Anna Kipke and Simon Teune

    Amelia Jones, Premesh Lalu

  • Gegenwartskunst
  • Künstlerische Praxis
  • Öffentlichkeit
  • Aktivismus
  • Institutionenkritik
  • Performance-Kunst

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Anna Kipke

Anna Kipke is a doctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1512 “Intervening Arts” at Leuphana University Lüneburg and Free University Berlin. Her research interests include the history and theory of modern and abstract art, the historiography of artistic practices, and trauma and healing as themes in twentieth and twenty-first century art. In her current PhD project “Emma Kunz, Therapeutic Lines,” she examines therapeutic practices as artistic methods of intervention between 1930–1960. She has co-edited a volume on art criticism and writes in the field.

Iryna Kovalenko

Iryna Kovalenko is a doctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1512 “Intervening Arts” at the European University Viadrina of Frankfurt (Oder) and Free University Berlin. Her field of research is contemporary Ukrainian culture and literature. Within the CRC 1512, she is working on the project “The Practices of Artistic Intervention During the Ukrainian Revolution in 2013–2014.” She is examining how artists contributed to the protests on the Maidan, challenging dominant narratives and highlighting the unique aesthetics that emerged.

Laura Rogalski

Laura Rogalski is a doctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1512 “Intervening Arts” at Free University Berlin. As a sociologist, she focuses on cultural sociology, social theory, qualitative methods, and right-wing extremism. Her most recently published article is “On Writing Schools and Pegida Sympathizers. New-Right Literary Criticism” (in German, 2022). At the CRC 1512, she is pursuing a PhD thesis on artists’ and activists’ perspectives on the social impact of their practice.

Simon Teune

Simon Teune is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1512 “Intervening Arts” at Free University Berlin. His research focuses on protests and social movements in general, and the cultural embedding of protest movements in particular. He has worked on the visual representation as well as the media coverage of protests. Within CRC 1512, he works on the project “Expectations of the Impact of Artistic Intervention: An Enquiry into Self-Understanding, Practices, and Receptions.”

Mimmi Woisnitza

Mimmi Woisnitza is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1512 “Intervening Arts” at Leuphana University Lüneburg and Free University Berlin. As a theater scholar and cultural historian, her research focuses on revolutionary theater practices in the early twentieth century from a feminist perspective. Within CRC 1512, she is pursuing a project on the intersection of life and art in Latvian theater maker Asja Lācis’ relational theater practice and its reception.
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