2018 Hic Rosa Studio in MAD Politics & Aesthetics
In the Names of…:
Re/In/Citing Politics After Capital and Colony
STUDIO SESSIONS, MAY 20-24
U33, Faculty of Social Studies (FSS)
Masaryk University
Jostova 10
*Studio Sessions are for Studio Participants, Collective Workshops are only for Collective Members, Events are open to the public
**We are working on editing down the readings to a readable length, and encourage everyone to pick 2-3 readings from among the list to read for every session. The facilitators will coordinate the plan for their own sessions
SATURDAY, MAY 19
Arrival and Check-in
Hic Rosa Collective pre-Studio meeting (only for members, 5pm)
SUNDAY, MAY 20
U33, FSS
9:00am-12:00pm
Studio Session I (with welcome to the Studio)
On the Possibility of Relations (and the Question of Anti-Fascist and Anti-Colonial Hospitality)
Facilitators: Asma Abbas, Kevin Cedeño-Pacheco, Genevieve Ward, Lily Goldberg [convenor]
Readings:
Michael Sprinker, Imaginary Relations (selection)
Lisa Lowe, Intimacies of Four Continents (selection)
Lewis Gordon, “Review of Frantz Fanon: De l’anticolonialisme à la critique postcoloniale by Matthieu Renault”; “Race, Theodicy, and the Normative Emancipatory Challenges of Blackness”
Denise Ferreira Da Silva, “On Difference without Separability”
Rei Terada, “The Racial Grammar of Kantian Time”
Pablo Neruda, “Sonata and Destructions”
Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation (selection)
12:00pm-1:30pm
Break
1:30pm-4:30pm
Studio Session II (with participant introductions)
Deference, Validation, Repair, and Return: Methods and Genres/The Senses of Citation
Facilitators: Kruskaya Hidalgo Cordero, Isabella Lee [convenor], Natasha Llorens, Nancy Love
Readings:
Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism (selection)
Saidiya Hartman, “The Terrible Beauty of the Slum”
Fred Moten, “The Resistance of the Object: Aunt Hester’s Scream”/http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/weaponise-aunt-hester%E2%80%99s-scream
Walter Mignolo, “Local Histories and Global Designs” (interview) OR a chapter from the book with the same name
Christina Sharpe (selection)
Sara Ahmed – Living a Feminist Life (selection, e.g. Intro and Ch 6)
Roderick Ferguson, Reorder of Things (selection)
4:30pm-7:00pm
Collective Workshop I (Only for Collective Members)
7:30pm
Natasha Llorens Film
MONDAY, MAY 21
Museum Of Romani Culture, Bratislavská 246/67
9:00am-11:30 am
Studio Session III
Expropriation without Property
Facilitators:
Ezra Lee, Gabriel Salgado, Anna Poplawski [convenor]
Readings:
Karl Marx (selection on “Private Property and Communism” from 1844 Manuscripts)
Moishe Postone (article or selection)
Glen Coulthard, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
George Ciccariello-Maher, Decolonizing Dialectics, Introduction
Robert Nichols, “Theft Is Property! The Recursive Logic of Dispossession”
11:30am-1:30pm
Break/Discussion (optional boxed lunch for 100 czk)
1:30pm-4:00pm
Studio Session IV
Naming the Disappeared
Facilitators: Kristina Čajkovicova, Chanelle Adams, Miri Davidson [convenor], Mary Wichmann
Readings:
Richard Bell, “Bell’s Theorem: Aboriginal Art, It’s a White Thing”
Omar Hamilton, “Alaa” or excerpts from The City Always Wins
Jenny Edkins, Missing (Introduction)
David Kazanjian, “Hegel, Liberia”
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, “Silencing the Past” (selection)
Mitri Raheb, “Faith in the Face of Empire”
Faisal Devji, “The Art of Nameless Violence”
Walter “Gavitt” Ferguson, selected songs + short documentary
Suvir Kaul or Basharat Peer (writing on Kashmir, TBD)
5:00pm-6:00pm, FSS, P-51
Event: Film Screening (Larissa Sansour’s Science Fiction Trilogy and Omar Hamilton’s film)
Collective Workshop II (Only for Collective Members)
TUESDAY, MAY 22
U-33, FSS
8:15am-10:45am
Studio Session V
Collective Time and Space
Facilitators: Aaron Bartels-Swindels, Jonathan Eburne, Sara Mugridge [convenor]
Readings:
Jonathan Eburne
Association of the Society of the Arts of the Present (Mission etc.)
Eburne, Antihumanism and Terror: Surrealism, Theory, and the Postwar Left
Robin Kelley & Franklin Rosemont (and/or this interview: https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2017/05/a-converstion-with-robin-d-g-kelley/)
Afrosurreal Manifesto (or manifestoes – which?)
Tricontinental statement/literature
10:45am-11:00am
Break
11:00am-1:30pm
Studio Session VI
History without Names: The Call of the Non-Homeric
Facilitators: Asma Abbas, Safi Alsebai, Colin Eubank [convenor], Omar Hamilton
Readings:
Omar Hamilton, “Refugee Stasis,” The City Always Wins (selection), This is Not A Border
Ranjana Khanna, Algeria Cuts (selection)-
Sondra Perry (video), “Lineage for a Multiple Monitor Work Station” https://vimeo.com/131805970
Poetry selection from Asymptote Journal, April 2017 issue (Away from Damascus — Omar Youssef Souleimane ?)
2:30 pm
Studio Excursion to Brno Dam and Veveri Castle, and Studio Dinner (All Studio Participants)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23
U-33, FSS
8:00am-11:00am
Collective Workshop III (Only for Collective Members)
11:00am-12:30pm (Bring your own lunch or optional boxed lunch for 100 czk)
Lunch with Sonya Darrow
12:30pm-3:00pm
Studio Session VII
Translation, Aesthetics, and the Question of Efficiencies
Facilitators:
Erika Grimm, Mark Hopkins, Nathaniel Madison [convenor], Keith Walsh
Readings:
Walter Benjamin, “On Translation”
Asma Abbas, “The Fanatic and A Case for Inefficient Politics”
Walter D. Mignolo and Freya Schiwy, “Transculturation and the Colonial Difference Double Translation”
Ronald Judy, “DisForming the American Canon: African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the Vernacular” (selection)
Asymptote (selections)
3:00pm-3:15pm
Break
3:15pm-5:45pm
Studio Session VIII
Readings and Misreadings, Intimacies and Betrayals
Facilitators: Ari Fogelson [convenor], Ellen Tracy, Zohaib Zuby
Readings:
Fatima Mernissi (selection on the sanctity of the text)
Walter Benjamin, “On Catastrophe”
Daniel Boyarin, “Apartheid Comparative Religion”
Daniel Boyarin, “Body Against Spirit: Figural Reading”
Kathleen Biddick, (selection)
Jack Segbars, “Benjamin in Palestine: On the Task of the Translator in the Age of Platform Production”
David Lloyd. “Walter Benjamin in Palestine”
7:30pm
Event
Marina Vishmidt and Danny Hayward
THURSDAY, MAY 24
U-33, FSS
8:30am-11:30 am
Collective Workshop IV (Meeting with Nesehnuti at 9 am)
11:30-2:00 pm
Studio Session IX
Between Litigiousness and Worldmaking
Facilitators: Lillian Chamai Bose, Elahe Mohammadi, Heidi Rhodes, Milo Ward [convenor]
Readings:
Jacques Ranciere (selection forthcoming)
Fred Moten (selection forthcoming from Black and Blur)
Marina Grzinic (selection forthcoming)
Hannah Arendt (selection forthcoming)
Mohammed Hanif or Nadeem Aslam (selection forthcoming TBD)
Hic Rosa on (ant)agonism
2:15pm-2:30pm
Break
2:30pm-5:00pm
Studio Session X
In the Name of Whom: Communist Practice and the Poetics of the Collective
Facilitators: Ciarán Finlayson [convenor], Danny Hayward, Marina Vishmidt
Readings:
Keston Sutherland, “Marx in Jargon”
Brossat and Klingberg, Revolutionary Yiddishland (selection)
Robert Hullot-Kentor, “Suggested Reading: Jameson on Adorno”
Hullot-Kentor, Translators Introduction Aesthetic Theory
Sean Bonney, Ghosts
Tricontinental working papers (TBD)
5:15pm-6:30pm (might move to Saturday)
Studio Closing Roundtable
The Sites and Cites of Study and Struggle
with Vijay Prashad, Ajay Chaudhry, and others (extension of the last session)
Moderators: Sara Mugridge and Isabella Lee
2018 Hic Rosa Studio in MAD Politics & Aesthetics
In the Names of…:
Re/In/Citing Politics After Capital and Colony
CONFERENCE, MAY 25-26
Moravian Gallery (Governor’s Palace)
Barokni Sal
Husova 10
FRIDAY, MAY 25
Conference, Day One
Moravian Gallery
8:30am
Introduction and Welcome to the Conference
8:45am-10:15am
Plenary I: Denise Ferreira Da Silva
Moderators: Asma Abbas and Ciarán Finlayson
10:15am-10:30am
Break
10:30am-12:15pm
Panel One
Citing: Discreet Charms, Resistant Objects
Iva Šmidova (Chair)
Aaron Bartels-Swindels
Kruskaya Hidalgo-Cordero
Ezra Lee
Wynona Meyer
Sara Mugridge (Convenor)
Hypatia Vourloumis
12:15pm-1:15pm
Break
1:15pm-3:00pm
Panel Two
These Broken Things; Afterlives of Possibility
Bindu Menon (Chair)
Colin Eubank (Convenor)
Ciaran Finlayson
Natasha Llorens
Mark Hopkins
Keith Walsh
3:00pm-3:15pm
Break
3:15pm-4:45 pm
Plenary II: Bindu Menon
Moderators: Ari Fogelson and Natasha Llorens
4:45-5:00 pm
Break
5:00pm-6:30pm
Panel Three
Reciting: Residues, Ruins, Remainders
Marina Vishmidt & Danny Hayward (Chairs)
Isabella Lee (Convenor)
Genevieve Ward
Ellen Tracy
Chanelle Adams
7:00pm
Performance
Heba Amin & Isabella Lee
FRIDAY, MAY 25
Conference, Day Two
Moravian Gallery
8:30am
Welcome, housekeeping, etc.
8:45am-10:15am
Plenary III: Marina Gržinić
Moderators: Nancy Love and Gabriel Salgado
10:15am-10:30am
Break
10:30am-12:00pm
Panel Four
Inciting: Laws, Orders, and Disorders
Jose Luis Bellon (Chair)
Kevin Cedeno-Pacheco
Avonlea Fisher
Nathaniel Madison & Safi Alsebai (Convenors)
Zohaib Zuby
12:00pm-1:00pm
Break
1:00pm-2:15pm
Plenary IV: Asma Abbas
Moderators: Colin Eubank and Milo Ward
2:15pm-3:45pm
Panel Five
The Call to Witness: Summons, Subpoenas, & Other Invitations to Politics
Nancy Love (Chair)
Ari Fogelson (Convenor)
Mary Gregory Wichmann
Mackenzie Dwyer
Gabriel Salgado (Convenor)
3:45pm-4:00pm
Break
4:00pm-6:30pm
Panel Six
Decolonizing Authority and Legitimacy: New, Improved, Genealogies
Marina Gržinić (Chair)
Erika Grimm
Miri Davidson
Heidi Rhodes
Jose Luis Bellon
Milo Ward (Convenor)
6:30pm-7:00pm
Closing
7:00 pm
Head out to Conference Dinner (location TBA)