Critique, Action, Multitude

Critique, Action, Multitude

 

 

Forum in the frames of the theoretical seminar

Challenges to Representative Democracy Today

organized by

 

Human and Social Studies Foundation (HSSF), Sofia

in cooperation with

The Fridge, Sofia

 

Special Guest: Gerald Raunig (Zurich / Vienna)

 

 

The forum will be held at The Fridge and Хaspel

Sofia, Blvd. Madrid, 8

Tuesday, 12 June 2012

Critique, Action, Multitude

19.00 – 21.00

19.00 – 20.00

Boyan Manchev: Critique, Action, Multitude. Opening words

Gerald Raunig (Philosopher, Art theoretician, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and eipcp [European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies]):

N-1. Making Multiplicity

20.00 – 21.00

Discussion with the participation of Gerald Raunig and Boyan Manchev

Moderator: Dimitar Vatsov (HSSF and New Bulgarian University)

Wednesday, 13 June 2012 (14.00 – 00.00)

Seminar 1:

Theory as Counter-Power: How is Philosophical Activism Possible?

14.00 – 16.00

With the participation of:

Todor Hristov (Sofia University): Critique and Its Governmental Appropriations

Darin Tenev (Sofia University): The Transcendental Contra-band of Community

Christo Gyoshev (New Bulgarian University): Power, Resistance, and Negative Transcendence

Dimitar Vatsov (HSSF and New Bulgarian University): Metaphor and Transformation

 

Response: Gerald Raunig

Moderator: Milena Yakimova (Sofia University)

 

Seminar 2: Art and Practice: Institution / Insurrection?

17.00 – 19.00

With the participation of:

Vladiya Mihaylova (Gallery Vaska Emanuilova) and Luchezar Boyadzhiev (visual artist)

(Discussion on the relation of contemporary art, critical action and institutions in Bulgaria)

Boryana Rossa (visual artist, Xaspel and Syracuse University) and Gerald Raunig

(Discussion on the art practices in the context of the new forms of political and social resistance, followed by general discussion of all participants)

 

Hosted by The Fridge (Ani Vaseva, Ivana Nencheva, Natalia Todorova)

Moderator: Boyan Manchev

To be Continued: Metamorphoses of the Political

20.00 – …

Miglena Nikolchina (Sofia University) and Dimitar Vatsov

A book launch instead of closing remarks

Open End