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Institute of Art History

Events

Reading Group

The reading group meets at Cabaret Voltaire (Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich) at 7 pm. The discussions take place in English and/or German, depending on participants’ needs. The reading group is open to anyone interested—no previous knowledge required. You can also join for just one of the sessions. Let us know of any access needs you may have, and we will give our best to accommodate them. To participate, simply write us an email. The texts will be shared with all participants a couple of weeks before each meeting.

Current Meetings (Fall/Winter 2023)

Tuesday, October 31, 7pm

  • Nora A. Taylor, “Why Have There Been No Great Vietnamese Artists?” (2005) online

Tuesday, November 28, 7pm

  • José Esteban Muñoz, “Performing Disidentifications,” introduction to Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999)

Followed by a screening of Marlon Riggs, Tongues Untied (1989, 55 minutes)

Tuesday, December 19

  • Rasheed Araeen, “The Success and the Failure of Black Art ,” Third Text 18, no. 2, 2004
  • Optional further reading: Courtney J. Martin, “Rasheed Araeen, Live Art, and Radical Politics in Britain,” Getty Research Journal, no. 2, 2010

Previous Meetings (Fall/Winter 2022)

September 27, 2022 – The Gaze

  • Homi Bhabha, “Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art,” in: Artforum 33, no. 6, February 1995
  • Kobena Mercer, “Looking for Trouble,” in: Transition, no. 51, 1991
  • McKenzie Wark, “The Cis Gaze and Its Others (for Shola),” in: e-flux journal, #117, April 2021

October 25, 2022 – Colonial Switzerland

  • Rohit Jain, “How to Be Affected in Postcolonial Public Spaces? Ethnographic Remarks on a Multifocal World in the Making...,” in: On Curating, no. 35, December 2017, Decolonizing Art Institutions
  • Patricia Purtschert and Harald Fischer-Tiné, “Introduction,” in: Colonial Switzerland: Rethinking Colonialism from the Margins, London 2015

November 22, 2022 – Othering

  • Renée Green, “I Won’t Play Other to Your Same” (1990) and “Trading on the Margin” (1991), in: Renée Green, Other Planes of There: Selected Writings, Durham 2014
  • To prepare for the session, we recommend a visit of Renée Green’s current exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich.

December 13, 2022 – Open Letters

Talks & Lectures

June 23, 2022, 21:00–22:30
Screening: An Experience Like That
A screening of video works by Howardena Pindell, Black Audio Film Collective, Aykan Safoglu and Ivy Monteiro
Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich

December 3, 2021, 17:00–18:30
Lecture by Denise Murrell: “Posing Modernity in Retrospect: Implications for Critical Art Histories”
moderated and introduced by CARAH
Online (zoom)

November 12, 2021, 18:00–19:30
Artist Talk with James Bantone
moderated by Mohamed Almusibli
Online (zoom)

Workshop

April 23 and 30, 2021
Antiracism in art historical research and teaching
hosted by Anja Glover

Weiterführende Informationen

Reading Group

Fall/Winter 2023

Dada Library at Cabaret Voltaire
Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich

Stranger in the Village

Joint visit of the exhibition Stranger in the Village at Aargauer Kunsthaus

September 21, 2023, 5:15–6:45pm

Screening: An Experience Like That

With video works by Howardena Pindell, Black Audio Film Collective, Aykan Safoglu and Ivy Monteiro

June 23, 2022

Cabaret Voltaire

Evening lecture by Denise Murrell

“Posing Modernity in Retrospect: Implications for Critical Art Histories”

December 3, 2021

Online (zoom)

Artist Talk with James Bantone

In conversation with Mohamed Almusibli

November 12, 2021

Online (zoom)