Thursday, August 11, 2022, 5 pm
Ungefüge, 4.3
Online sound piece by Gerald Raunig (philosopher and art theorist, Zurich University of the Arts) in collaboration with Alexander Tuchaček, Isabell Lorey, and Stevphen Shukaitis.
In German
In German
As a text and sound dissemblage, Ungefüge, 4.3 continues the experiment in theoretical form that Gerald Raunig began with his book Ungefüge (transversal texts, 2021) [Dissemblage (Minor Compositions, 2022]. The second volume of Machinic Capitalism and Molecular Revolution formulates Unmunt as the masterlessness of a minor masculinity, immaturity as resistance to normalization, and self-disjoining as a precondition of dissemblage. In this intensive collaboration with Alexander Tuchaček and with the voices of Isabell Lorey and Stevphen Shukaitis, not only has a piece about dissemblage been created, but also a dividual multiplicity that is itself dissemblage, disjointure, subjuncture. “Out of joint, in the joints, lurking for the joints. Then the wind comes in, and with it the windy, Wendy, Windish kin”. (Gerald Raunig, Dissemblage, Minor Compositions 2022, pp. 240)
Text/Dissemblation: Gerald Raunig
Sound: Alexander Tuchaček
Voice: Isabell Lorey
Additional voice: Stevphen Shukaitis
Credits: Clarice Lispector, Donna Haraway, Fred Moten, Leonard Cohen, Ralph Ellison, Walter Benjamin
https://transversal.at/books/ungefuege
Gerald Raunig works at the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (eipcp) and as a professor of philosophy at Zurich University of the Arts. His books have been translated into English, Serbian, Spanish, Slovenian, Russian, Italian, Dutch, and Turkish. Recent books in English: Dissemblage: Machinic Capitalism and Molecular Revolution, Vol. 2, translated by Aileen Derieg (Minor Compositions, 2022); Dividum: Machinic Capitalism and Molecular Revolution , Vol.1, translated by Aileen Derieg (New York/Los Angeles: Semiotext(e)/MIT Press 2016); Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity, translated by Aileen Derieg, New York/Los Angeles: Semiotext(e)/MIT Press, 2013); Critique of Creativity, London: mayflybooks 2011 (Ed., with Gene Ray and Ulf Wuggenig).
Alexander Tuchaček teaches Art & Media at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). He is the co-founder of the artist collective knowbotic research (Cologne, 1991). Together with specialists from various disciplines, knowbotic develops projects on topics such as human-machine interfaces, artificial language synthesis, medialized representations of nature, databases, and self-organization. It has received numerous awards, including the Hermann Claasen Prize for Creative Photography and Media Art (2001), the Media Art Prize of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media (2000), the Prix Ars Electronica (1998), and the August Seeling Prize of the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum (1997). Presentations include at Helmhaus, Zurich (2017); Stromereien Performance Festival, Zurich (2014); Shedhalle, Zurich (2011; 2010); NAMOC, Beijing (2008); Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, and Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana (2006); Witte de With, Rotterdam, and MoCA Taipei (2004); New Museum, New York (2002); Venice Biennale (1999).
Isabell Lorey is a political theorist and professor of Queer Studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. She also works for transversal (transversal.at), the multilingual publication platform of the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (eipcp). Her books include: Figuren des Immunen. Elemente einer politischen Theorie [Figures of the immune. Elements of a political theory] (Zurich: Diaphanes 2011); Die Regierung der Prekären [The government of the precarious] (New Edition, Vienna: Turia+Kant 2020); Demokratie im Präsens. Eine Theorie der politischen Gegenwart [Democracy in the present tense. A theory of the political present] (Berlin: Suhrkamp 2020).
Stevphen Shukaitis is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Work, Organization and Society (CWOS) at the University of Essex and a member of the Autonomedia editorial collective. Since 2009 he has been the coordinator and editor of the Minor Compositions research project (http://www.minorcompositions.info). His research focuses on the emergence of collective imagination in social movements and the changing compositions of cultural and artistic labor. He is the author of Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Day (New York: Autonomedia, 2009) and The Composition of Movements to Come: Aesthetics and Cultural Labor After the Avant-Garde (Lanham/Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) and co-editor of Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations // Collective Theorization (with Erika Biddle and David Graeber, Stirling, UK: AK Press, 2007).
Text/Dissemblation: Gerald Raunig
Sound: Alexander Tuchaček
Voice: Isabell Lorey
Additional voice: Stevphen Shukaitis
Credits: Clarice Lispector, Donna Haraway, Fred Moten, Leonard Cohen, Ralph Ellison, Walter Benjamin
https://transversal.at/books/ungefuege
Gerald Raunig works at the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (eipcp) and as a professor of philosophy at Zurich University of the Arts. His books have been translated into English, Serbian, Spanish, Slovenian, Russian, Italian, Dutch, and Turkish. Recent books in English: Dissemblage: Machinic Capitalism and Molecular Revolution, Vol. 2, translated by Aileen Derieg (Minor Compositions, 2022); Dividum: Machinic Capitalism and Molecular Revolution , Vol.1, translated by Aileen Derieg (New York/Los Angeles: Semiotext(e)/MIT Press 2016); Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity, translated by Aileen Derieg, New York/Los Angeles: Semiotext(e)/MIT Press, 2013); Critique of Creativity, London: mayflybooks 2011 (Ed., with Gene Ray and Ulf Wuggenig).
Alexander Tuchaček teaches Art & Media at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). He is the co-founder of the artist collective knowbotic research (Cologne, 1991). Together with specialists from various disciplines, knowbotic develops projects on topics such as human-machine interfaces, artificial language synthesis, medialized representations of nature, databases, and self-organization. It has received numerous awards, including the Hermann Claasen Prize for Creative Photography and Media Art (2001), the Media Art Prize of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media (2000), the Prix Ars Electronica (1998), and the August Seeling Prize of the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum (1997). Presentations include at Helmhaus, Zurich (2017); Stromereien Performance Festival, Zurich (2014); Shedhalle, Zurich (2011; 2010); NAMOC, Beijing (2008); Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, and Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana (2006); Witte de With, Rotterdam, and MoCA Taipei (2004); New Museum, New York (2002); Venice Biennale (1999).
Isabell Lorey is a political theorist and professor of Queer Studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. She also works for transversal (transversal.at), the multilingual publication platform of the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (eipcp). Her books include: Figuren des Immunen. Elemente einer politischen Theorie [Figures of the immune. Elements of a political theory] (Zurich: Diaphanes 2011); Die Regierung der Prekären [The government of the precarious] (New Edition, Vienna: Turia+Kant 2020); Demokratie im Präsens. Eine Theorie der politischen Gegenwart [Democracy in the present tense. A theory of the political present] (Berlin: Suhrkamp 2020).
Stevphen Shukaitis is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Work, Organization and Society (CWOS) at the University of Essex and a member of the Autonomedia editorial collective. Since 2009 he has been the coordinator and editor of the Minor Compositions research project (http://www.minorcompositions.info). His research focuses on the emergence of collective imagination in social movements and the changing compositions of cultural and artistic labor. He is the author of Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Day (New York: Autonomedia, 2009) and The Composition of Movements to Come: Aesthetics and Cultural Labor After the Avant-Garde (Lanham/Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) and co-editor of Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations // Collective Theorization (with Erika Biddle and David Graeber, Stirling, UK: AK Press, 2007).