How can alternative timelines in our contemporaneity, one of which Victoria Browne (The Last Resident, 2016) identifies in speculating on feminist temporalities, help us to “make the time to really listen, to make our own selves and temporalities strange?” And in what way do female artists–and minor communities–take up this desire, which perhaps corresponds to today’s tendency from Text to Ritual/Performance, or the Ritual/Performance as Text? During the discussion (female) performative practices are examined as key transformers in re-imagining what we call our Now.

Rosa Barba’s 35mm film Subconscious Society, a Feature, 2014 imagines a re-inhabiting of abandoned places in a parallel present or indeterminate future. Set at the end of the industrial era and the transition to the digital age, this paradigm shift is represented in the form of an isolated community, whose protagonists make a final attempt at assigning and archiving objects from the past.

The event derives from The Last Resident (Sternberg Press) as part of The Contemporary Condition book series.

Rebecca Carson, writer and PhD candidate at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University in London; teaches in Critical & Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths, University of London, with a focus in modern European philosophy.

Ingrid Pui Yee Chu, Hong Kong born curator, writer and cultural entrepreneur, who developed Booked (Hong Kong Art Book Fair) and is currently involved in building up the Artists’ Book Library Tai Kwun Contemporary.

Silvia Eiblmayr, art historian and curator, former director of the Galerie im Taxispalais in Innsbruck, and from 1993–1995 director of the Salzburger Kunstverein.

Leander Gussmann, PhD candidate, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. 

Gerald Raunig, philosopher, works at the eipcp (European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies) and the Zürich University of the Arts.

Verina Gfader, artist and researcher, recent postdoc fellow on The Contemporary Condition, Aarhus University, orchestrates her practice as organised fields of research aided by drawing, animation, text performance and fabulations, and fictional institutions.

links:

Rosa Barba, Subconscious Society, a Feature, 2014. 35mm film, colour, optical sound, 40 m

www.rosabarba.com/subconscious-society-a-feature-2014

 The Last Resident (The Contemporary Condition series 12). Verina Gfader, with Victoria Browne, Rebecca Carson, William Forsythe, Claire Hsu, William Kentridge, Mochu, Monica Narula, Pallavi Paul, Lea Porsager, Gerald Raunig, Sif, Lantian Xie. Designer: Dexter Sinister. Sternberg Press, in partnership with Aarhus University and ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, 05/2019.

contemporaneity.au.dk/book-series/

www.sternberg