The conference asks on the one hand art critics about their own decisive art experience, which led them to work as art critics, and on the other hand artists about their understanding of the practice of criticism in general that underlies the impulse for their own (art) critical activity. Within this field of reference situated between different media, the practice of criticism is to become recognizable not so much as a universally applicable and always already legitimate method, but rather as a historically specific attitude or positioning in which the contingency of one’s own conditionality is accepted and transformed into the social-symbolic space of contemporary art. Here, the lack of a given canonical meaning corresponds to the importance of an engaged practice of judgment, in which one’s own indeterminacy can appear as a condition for the possibility of a symbolic opening onto a beyond of art and criticism.
List of conference lectures:
- Introduction by Helmut Draxler and Hannes Loichinger
- Alex Kitnick: Talking criticism
Panel "The Art of Criticism"
- Jay Chung: Mind Over Matter?
- Tanja Widmann: Ah, critique!
- Ken Okiishi: Against Better Judgement: Problems in the Artist as Critic
- Judith Barry: Casual Confrontations
Panel "The Criticism of Art"
- Catherine Chevalier: Forms of Articulation of Art Criticism and Art Practices, and Beyond
- Kristian Vistrup Madsen: Discernment and Distinction: Current challenges in the practice of art criticism
- Jakob Schillinger: Prost Critical
- Valérie Knoll: Criticism is banned from my house
Panel "The Media of Criticism"
- Anke Dyes: Big Data as Woman, or, The Fear of Selling Out
- Taslima Ahmed / Manuel Gnam: Critical update required: your current version of art critique no longer runs on this operating system
- Megan Francis Sullivan: Jill Johnston: The Disintegration of A Critic. A Walk-through
- میزبان: دانشگاه هنرهای کاربردی وین
- زمان: ۱ تا ۲ ژوئن ۲۰۲۳ | ۱۱ تا ۱۲خرداد ۱۴۰۲
- اطلاعات بیشتر:
https://www.dieangewandte.at/jart/prj3/angewandte-2016/data/uploads/Aktuelles/Veranstaltungen/2023/The_Practice_of_Criticism_Program.pdf
