• [Academy Lectures 2014.01.29] 

      Ashford, Doug (Lecture, 2014)
      What we may know from abstract painting is that it deploys form in order to steal experience away from the present, showing perhaps that the experience of real things is often concealing their nature. If we could somehow ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2014.05.07] 

      Watkins, Jonathan (Lecture, 2014)
      Ikon Director Jonathan Watkins gives an illustrated talk about his experiences as curator of the Iraqi Pavilion for the 2013 Venice Biennale. Having travelled extensively in Iraq, from the southern marshlands to Kurdistan, ...
    • [Academy Lectures, 2014.01.15] 

      Povinelli, Elizabeth A. (Lecture, 2014-01-15)
      In the far north of Australia, the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority brought a gutsy desecration lawsuit against OM Manganese Ltd for deliberating damaging an Indigenous sacred site, Two Women Sitting Down, at its Bootu ...
    • [Academy Lectures, 2014.02.16] 

      Federici, Silvia (Lecture, 2014-02-16)
      Silvia Federici is a long time feminist activist, teacher and writer. She has been active in the feminist movement, the anti-globalization movement and the anti-death penalty movement. In 1972 she was one of the founders ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2014.02.26] 

      Hjort Guttu, Ane (Lecture, 2014-02-26)
      AHG: You went out for fixed walks at night while your family slept. You had a family the entire time? C: Yes. I had kids when I was at the academy. (Pause.) I got to see a lot of painful things in my job. And I couldn’t ...
    • [Academy Lectures, 2014.03.05] 

      Kovanda, Jiří; Baladrán, Zbyněk (Lecture, 2014-03-05)
      «The Nervous System» is a performative lecture that follows the previous collaboration of the two artists Jiří Kovanda and Zbyněk Baladrán in a variety of formats. After the show, which was held in Milano Kunstverein in ...
    • [Academy Lectures, 2014-03-12] 

      Holder, Will (Lecture, 2014-03-12)
      Following a brief introduction, Will Holder will continue an ongoing series of orally typeset texts. This one in particular speaks of–and demonstrates–the phonological method for textual analysis, of English poet J.H. ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2014.04.02]  

      Berardi Bifo, Franco (Lecture, 2014-04-02)
      «The financial Black Hole is swiftly dissipating the legacy of industrial labor and of the very structures of Modern civilization. Precariousness is spreading in the labor market, and in the very foundations of language, ...
    • [Academy Lectures, 2014.04.22] 

      Fusco, Maria (Lecture, 2014-04-22)
      This is a prescient participatory moment, when seen in relation to the unruly nature of many contemporary artists’ writings, and their insistence on finding the form which best expresses and extends their particular ...
    • [Academy Lectures, 2014.04.23] 

      Richards, James (Lecture, 2014-04-23)
      «My working process has always begun with the idea of collage; of bringing disparate things together in such a way as to make something new, but also to keep hold of the sense of those fragments being very different—or ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2014.09.03] 

      MYCKET; FRANK (Lecture, 2014-09-03)
      As the first Academy Lecture of the semester, FRANK has invited MYCKET in conversation about patriarchal walls, Trojan Horses and the body politics of The Club Scene. The conversational lecture will be happening in conjunction ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2014.09.05]  

      Misiano, Viktor (Lecture, 2014-09-05)
      Viktor Misiano is invited by Felix Gmelin to Oslo to discuss and investigate how we can describe ourselves and the world in what Russia’s President Putin describes as a multipolar society. Misiano was also interviewed by ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2014.10.01] 

      Ginwala, Natasha (Lecture, 2014-10-01)
      An illustrated talk that surveys the entanglements of scientific and aesthetic operations within processes of imperial expansion, knowledge-formation and the pursuit of collecting “the World as Image” in the nineteenth ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2014.10.08] 

      Condorelli, Celine (Lecture, 2014-10-08)
      Support Structures Céline Condorelli’s practice is concerned with how our encounter with the material world happens through counting on it, and the fact that all human action takes place amidst countless structures of ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2014.10.22]  

      Coburn, Tyler (Lecture, 2014-10-22)
      Tyler Coburn’s publication, «I’m that angel», explores the conditions of how we work on and against the computer, narrated from the perspective of a “content farmer”: an online journalist contracted to generate articles ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2014.11.06]  

      Holmqvist, Karl; Arakawa, Ei (Visual arts, 2014-11-06)
      As a part of Sofie Berntsen and Karl Holmqvist’s exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s exhibition series «Rameau’s Nephews», this Academy Lecture dissolves into a performance, including the students Emma Brack, ...
    • [Academy Lectures 2014.11.19] 

      Verwoert, Jan (Lecture, 2014-11-19)
      The clan will not forget. The hunger, poverty and war the tribe lived through, is in our bones, still, as we walk the streets, eager to eat all we can, to die a bit more with every bite we take, and apologize to the dead ...