Dear all

I am very pleased to invite you to participate in a special workshop developed together with curator and writer Joshua Simon.

Hope to see you there & please do not forget to sign up in the online system if you need some ECTS

(Course 050.183 Workshop B4)

allthebest

Axel Stockburger

KuZ:M [ac/dc]

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WORKSHOP SLIME – SS 2024 (2ECTS)

on digital hybridity

In the Summer term 2024, the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, in cooperation with Secession Vienna, presents the workshop SLIME. The workshop is open to all students of the Academy and no prior knowledge is required.

SLIME is a unique hybrid program about our hybrid realities. Curated by Joshua Simon and developed with artists Francesco Finizio, Liv Schulman and others, SLIME takes place at the secession as an on-site event, and an on-line program. It includes commissioned and historical artworks, talks and performances, screenings and workshops (including an actual one for making Slime). As it takes its name from the children's toy - a metastable plasma substance that has both unique material and tactile features and a constant presence online through tutorials and documentation of people playing with it - SLIME tackles the social, cultural, political and sensory operations of digital hybridity.

Where we meet today - at the point of realization - as opposed to the point of production - shifts occur in the ways meaning is organized; from strikes to riots, working class to surplus populations, solidarity to conspiracy and from organization to petty sovereignty. Digital hybridity continues finance's assault on social reproduction. Infused with its belief in digitality as an unmediated mode of operation, it generates sensory and political frontiers - be it ASMR or extreme right-wing politics. In this world, slime is the form of that which has no form - a non-productive high viscosity, an overflowing superfluous matter - an informé of sorts. Exploring this cultural phenomena and its precursors in art, the program at secession looks at our political, economic and cultural realities as these stem from the digital hybridity that is SLIME.

The workshop will also have an online dimension, with some international speakers and artists participating via zoom.

WORKSHOP DATES

22.3.24 - 2pm - 5:30pm Onboarding SLIME with Joshua Simon, Christian Lübbert (Curator at Secession) and Axel Stockburger (live)

26.04.24 - 2pm-5:30pm Liv Schulman video artist based in Paris, who is involved in the exhibition Slime both online and at Secession (zoom)

24.05.24 - 2pm-5:30pm Ruth Patir - Video artist who is representing Israel in the 2024 Venice biennial. Her work is shown as part of the online project at slime.secession.athttp://slime.secession.at/ (zoom)

21.06.24 - 2pm-5:30pm Ana Teixeira Pinto - Writer and cultural theorist based in Berlin. She is a professor at the Braunschweig University of Art and a theory tutor at the Dutch Art Institute. She is the editor of a book series on the antipolitical turn, published by Sternberg Press. Teixeira Pinto is part of the on-site program of Slime. (zoom)

also check out slime.secession.at - regular drops until end of June 24.

in cooperation with

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(feel free to forward to interested parties)