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Organisation profile
The cultural sciences research training group “Cultures of Criticism” undertakes a productive revision of the preconditions, roles and validity claims of critique. On the one hand, new technologies and distribution channels have given rise to a welter of unexpected critical and quasi-critical practices. On the other hand, the very theoretical foundations of critique have come under massive pressure – and so, it seems, has the modern project of critique as a whole. What may be regarded as an act of critique and which agents, expectations and criteria take part, is currently subject to basal negotiation.
The research training group conceives critique as a praxis that is always already culturally situated, while its efficacy rides on comprehensive claims to validity and authority. The phenomena under critique are inseparably interwoven with the forms and media used to represent them. Representation thus appears as the focal point in which widely divergent forms of critique and their heterogeneous cultures lend themselves to comparative discussion. Building on studies of diverse concrete critical practices, the Research Training Group seeks to remap the interaction between critique and culture in the history of modernity up to the present and employ the tools of cultural studies to frame a well founded and timely conception of critique.
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen
Deputy spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Erich Hörl
‚Alger la Blanche‘ becomes ‚Alger la Rouge‘ – On the heritage of the anti-colonial movements in contemporary art
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
A Museum of Memory for Colombia: The emergence of a controversial space
01.10.23 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Archivio Nicola Massimo De Feo
Nigro, R., Marzocca, O., Casale, R., Ciccarelli, R., Licinio, A., Marzocca, O., Nigro, R., Casale, R., Gadaleta, C., di Girolamo, C., Papagni, S. & Spagnuolo, M.
01.02.20 → …
Project: Research
Cultures of Critique: Forms, Media, Effects
Söntgen, B., Hörl, E. H. & Beyes, T.
01.10.16 → 31.07.21
Project: Research
Cultures of Critique: Forms, Media, Effects
Söntgen, B., Hörl, E. H., Beyes, T. & Nigro, R.
01.04.21 → 30.09.25
Project: Research
Das Logistische Museum - Maritime Museen und Hafenmuseen als potenzielle Räume der Kritik
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Die Dialektik des Body Politic: Eine Studie zum Wandel des neuzeitlich sozialen Körpers
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Encounter: An art research workshop with Bracha Ettinger
15.05.17 → 15.05.20
Project: Scientific event
European Haniel Program on Entrepreneurship and the Humanities
Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Johnsen, R.
01.01.18 → 30.09.25
Project: Other
“Expanding the Margins: Migration, Mobilities, Borders”, International Summer School
21.09.14 → 26.09.14
Project: Scientific event
Gründungsmitglied des Initiativkollegs Sinne – Technik – Inszenierung. Medien und Wahrnehmung an der Universität Wien
01.06.07 → 01.06.10
Project: Research
Gründungsmitglied des Initiativkollegs The Sciences in Historical Context an der Universität Wien
01.06.07 → 01.06.10
Project: Research
Identity as Deportability: On ‘Identitatsklärung’ as a Contested Practice of Control within the German-European Deportation Regime
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Immediations: Art, Media, Event
Brunner, C., Massumi, B. & Manning, E.
01.06.13 → 31.12.19
Project: Research
International Conference: Judgement Practices in the Artistic Field.
29.11.17 → 01.12.17
Project: Scientific event
Internationales Symposium "Narrating Culture(s) in Museums and Exhibitions"
18.01.18 → 19.01.18
Project: Scientific event
Investigating Logistics: Lifestyles, Migration and the Common(s)
01.09.15 → 31.12.16
Project: Scientific event
KOSMOS Workshop "Cataloging Logistics 1: Migration, Humanitarism, Borders"
25.05.16 → 27.05.16
Project: Scientific event
KOSMOS Workshop "Cataloging Logistics 2: Migration, Digitalisation, Forms of Life"
16.06.16 → 17.06.16
Project: Scientific event
Kunst in neuen Kontexten: Die Artist Placement Group als Case Study
25.10.13 → 26.01.14
Project: Teaching
Kunstkritik und Krisenrhetorik - Modellfall Kunstschriftstellerei
24.05.16 → 07.10.20
Project: Research
Media and Participation. Between demand and entitlement, TP 5: Participatory Critique as Transforming and Transversal "With"
Bippus, E., Brunner, C., Nigro, R., Ochsner, B. & Hörl, E. H.
01.10.15 → 31.07.22
Project: Research
Methodenkritik und feministische Institutionskritik. Kritik, Interventionen und neue Formen des Sprechens
06.04.20 → 10.07.20
Project: Teaching
Partial Versions Collective
Genidogan, K., Jones, A., Mason, L. & Osman, H.
09.05.18 → …
Project: Research
Poetic and Photographic Practices in the Kiongozi German East African Colonial Newspaper 1885 to 1918
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
"Politische Kunst" - von der Avantgarde bis heute
Jordan, U. & Szántó, I.
01.10.13 → 31.03.14
Project: Teaching
Re-building Solidarity and Networks of Care Through Art: Political Art Practices in Rebellious Societies.
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
"Sagen was wir sind" - Die Theoriebildung der radikalen Schwulenbewegung als (Konstellation der) Kritik
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
“Teaching the Crisis. Geographies, Methodologies, Perspectives”, International Summer School
01.09.13 → 15.09.13
Project: Scientific event
The Ecotechnical Community: Hospitality and the Organisation of Locality
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Urkommunismus als narratives Konzept zwischen 1848 und 1940
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project