[oberlist] Fwd: Removed from the Crowd seminar: Franco Berardi Bifo and Jelena Vesic, Monday, 9 July, Zagreb

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Subject: Removed from the Crowd seminar: Franco Berardi Bifo and Jelena
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 *Removed from the Crowd: Unexpected Encounters III*
Open seminar

With:
*Franco Berardi Bifo, Jelena Vesić*

Monday, July 9, 2012, 18.00 - 21.00
Pogon, Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth - Jedinstvo Hall
Trnjanski nasip bb, Zagreb

Organized by:
*DeLVe | Institute for Duration, Location and Variables*

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Removed From the Crowd is an ongoing research and publishing project
developed by the Institute for Duration, Location and Variables (DeLVe)
that had its previous iterations in Zagreb, Belgrade, Ljubljana and Prague.
The series of seminars titled Unexpected Encounters brings together
theoretical, research and artistic projects and practices, initiating new
and unexpected links between different aesthetico-political preoccupations.

Based on the reading of selected phenomena and concepts that informed the
artistic, curatorial and intellectual practices in Yugoslavia during the
1960s and the 1970s, the project opens itself towards a broader reflection
on the issues of community, solidarity, exodus, Dyonisian socialism,
visibility, productivity, performativity and delayed audience while testing
the resonances of these phenomena in different geographies and
temporalities. The series of seminars *Unexpected Encounters* brings
together new research and research in progress by practitioners from
different fields, activating an encounter and an open reflection between
the presenters, organizers and the audience.

The upcoming seminar *Unexpected Encounters III* relates to the topics of
laziness, non-productivity and exodus through the prism of artistic
practices and visual culture of socialist Yugoslavia on the one hand, while
on the other it looks into these same phenomena in the context of
contemporary modes of production, financial capitalism and crisis, the
staged conflict of the ‘productive’ North and the ‘lazy’ South of Europe.

The seminar is opened by the Belgrade based curator, activist and
writer *Jelena
Vesić*, followed by the lecture of the Italian theorist, activist and
writer *Franco Berardi Bifo*.

In her lecture *Exhibition on work and laziness: General Rehearsal*, *Jelena
Vesić *will juxtapose the motifs of Stakhanovism, enthusiasm, diligence and
workaholism with the notions of laziness, strike and the boycott of work.
Images of work and laziness linked to the political space of socialist
Yugoslavia of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, above all to popular iconography
of Stakhanovism in media and social sphere, will be brought in relation
with the expressions and representations of laziness in the context of the
so-called New Art Practices (conceptual art practices) in former Yugoslavia.

In his lecture *Money, Semiocapital and the Infinity of Language** *the
Italian writer, activist and theorist *Franco Berardi Bifo *will discuss
the process of financial abstraction from the point of view of the history
of poetical language during the 20th century. The agony of financial
capitalism may, according to Bifo, prelude to different outcomes: the
establishment of a totalitarian model of submission of the living body and
language to the mathematical ferocity of debt, or the final collapse of the
capitalist gestalt and the exodus - proliferation of non-monetary forms of
social production. The lecture will revolve around several axes: the
notions of language, money, debt and insolvency in the context of
capitalism as a semiotic form; financial mathematical ferocity and the
infinity of language: the semiotic excess; deterritorialization: from the
modern bourgeoisie to the predatory virtual class; the incompatibility of
the financial model and the social body; the limits and language - P.
Virno, L. Wittgenstein and the space of poetry.****

*Jelena Vesić** *is independent curator, cultural activist, writer, editor
and lecturer who lives and works in Belgrade and abroad. She was co-editor
of *Prelom* – Journal of Images and Politics (Belgrade) 2001-2009, and
founding member of the Prelom Collective (Belgrade) 2005-2010. She is also
co-editor of *Red Thread* – Journal for social theory, contemporary art and
activism, (Istanbul) since 2009 and member of editorial board of *Art
Margins* (MIT Press). Her research is dedicated to the politics of
representation in art and visual culture, practices of self-organization
and politization of cultural work. Her recent curatorial projects
include *Lecture
Performance*, Museum of Contemporary Art – Belgrade and Koelnisher
Kunstverein and *Political Practices of (post-) Yugoslav Art: RETROSPECTIVE
01*, Museum 25th of May (MIJ) - Belgrade. ****


*Franco Berardi Bifo* is the founder of the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981)
and was part of the staff of Radio Alice, the first free pirate radio
station in Italy (1976-1978). Like others involved in the political
movement of Autonomia in Italy during the 1970's, he fled to Paris, where
he worked with Felix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis. Among his
book are: *After the Future *(2011), *The Soul at Work *(2010), *Felix *(2001),
*Cibernauti *(1994), *Mutazione e Cyberpunk *(1993) and numerous essay
published in magazines such as Semiotext(e), Chimères, Metropoli, Musica
80. He’s regular contributor to the e-flux journal and coordinator of the
European School for Social Imagination (SCEPSI). His book *Poetry and
Finance *will be published by Semiotext(e) in September this year.

Supported by: Ministry of Culture, Croatia; City of Zagreb
In collaboration with: Pogon - Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and
Youth

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