Drafts in Action

Concepts and Practices of Artistic Intervention
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-0358-0698-4
Verlag: diaphanes

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Intervening Arts

How do practices of artistic intervention engage with conceptual frameworks, in particular when it comes to location, institutional context, as well as human and non-human relations? What are the historical and theoretical references that fuel current approaches within the arts—performative, participatory, intervening—and in what ways do these references infer a certain tension between concepts and actions, between objectives and practices? And in what ways do these debates provide possible tools for the analysis of artistic intervention today?

This volume addresses the potentials and challenges of different forms of intervention at the intersection of activism and artistic fields and practices. The contributions, written by scholars from art history, sociology, literary and performative studies as well as art practitioners, present case studiesthatshed light on artistic practices that respond to geopolitical, socio-cultural, and ecological crises, as well as on curatorial projects, the organization of collectives and the role of institutions within the art field and academia. Individual contributions are accompanied by short interviews that give room to dialogues among the authors.

Taking a multidirectional approach that accounts for the positionality of perspectives and highlights the non-directional formation of the interventions at hand, the anthology presents and discusses current tools,methods, and analytical frameworks to address artistic interventions.

With contributions by Raphael Daibert, Agata Jakubowska, Amelia Jones, Anna Kipke, Iryna Kovalenko, Premesh Lalu, Natalia Moussienko, Alia Rayyan, Laura Rogalski, María Laura Rosa, Franka Schäfer, Paula Serafini, Valeria Schulte-Fischedick, Simon Teune, and Mimmi Woisnitza.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kipke, Anna

Kovalenko, Iryna

Rogalski, Laura

Teune, Simon

Woisnitza, Mimmi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

7	-	8	Preface
9	-	34	Manifestation, Collectiveness, Documentation: Thinking About Intervening Arts in Terms of Concept and Practice	(Anna Kipke, Mimmi Woisnitza)
37	-	58	Performing Absence as Intervention: The Case of Lee Lozano	(Amelia Jones)
59	-	66	Collective Performance and the Cuerpo-territorio	(Paula Serafini)
67	-	74	Questions of What Remains	(Raphael Daibert)
75	-	90	On the “Promise!” of Revolutionary Art Practices: Situating Asja Lacis’ “New Tendencies in Theater” (Riga, 1921)	(Mimmi Woisnitza)
93	-	108	Socially Engaged Art Practice in Jerusalem: A Critical Reflection on Public Space Art Engagement	(Alia Rayyan)
109	-	122	The Work of Art in the Wake of Apartheid	(Premesh Lalu)
123	-	136	Rethinking Objectives, Theory and Practice: Studying Artists’ and Activists’ Perspectives on Impact in Empirical Research	(Laura Rogalski)
137	-	148	Theory is & in Practice: On the Relationship Between the Theoretically Intended and Practical Logic of Interventions	(Franka Schäfer)
151	-	158	Theory, Positionality, and the Public Space. Interview by Anna Kipke and Simon Teune	(Alia Rayyan, María Laura Rosa)
161	-	170	Manifesto—Manifest—Manifestation: The Creation of Collectivity Through Text	(Simon Teune)
171	-	182	Estado de Emergencia: Addressing (Trans) feminicide through Feminist Art and Activism	(María Laura Rosa)
183	-	196	“I feel that the grotesque will turn into a Molotov cocktail”: Actions of Ukrainian Art Groups Before the Revolution of Dignity (2010–2013)	(Iryna Kovalenko)
197	-	204	Traveling Practices. Interview by Anna Kipke and Simon Teune	(Agata Jakubowska, Paula Serafini)
207	-	220	Art and War in Ukraine	(Natalia Moussienko)
221	-	234	MANIFEST Yourself! Visualizing and Contextualizing (Queer) Feminist Manifestos in an Exhibition	(Valeria Schulte-Fischedick)
235	-	246	On Puppets, Dolls, and Harlequins: Textile Constellations between Emma Kunz and Eva Aeppli	(Anna Kipke)
247	-	260	The Role of the University as an Institution. Interview by Anna Kipke and Simon Teune	(Amelia Jones, Premesh Lalu)
261	-	264	About the Authors
265	-	268	Table of Figures

Über Autor(innen)

Kovalenko, Iryna
Iryna Kovalenko Iryna Kovalenko is a doctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1512 “Intervening Arts” at the European University Viadrina of Frankfurt (Oder) and Free University Berlin. Her field of research is contemporary Ukrainian culture and literature. Within the CRC 1512, she is working on the project “The Practices of Artistic Intervention During the Ukrainian Revolution in 2013–2014.” She is examining how artists contributed to the protests on the Maidan, challenging dominant narratives and highlighting the unique aesthetics that emerged.

Teune, Simon
Simon Teune Simon Teune is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1512 “Intervening Arts” at Free University Berlin. His research focuses on protests and social movements in general, and the cultural embedding of protest movements in particular. He has worked on the visual representation as well as the media coverage of protests. Within CRC 1512, he works on the project “Expectations of the Impact of Artistic Intervention: An Enquiry into Self-Understanding, Practices, and Receptions.”

Woisnitza, Mimmi
Mimmi Woisnitza Mimmi Woisnitza is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1512 “Intervening Arts” at Leuphana University Lüneburg and Free University Berlin. As a theater scholar and cultural historian, her research focuses on revolutionary theater practices in the early twentieth century from a feminist perspective. Within CRC 1512, she is pursuing a project on the intersection of life and art in Latvian theater maker Asja La¯cis’ relational theater practice and its reception.

Rogalski, Laura
Laura Rogalski Laura Rogalski is a doctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1512 “Intervening Arts” at Free University Berlin. As a sociologist, she focuses on cultural sociology, social theory, qualitative methods, and right-wing extremism. Her most recently published article is “On Writing Schools and Pegida Sympathizers. New-Right Literary Criticism” (in German, 2022). At the CRC 1512, she is pursuing a PhD thesis on artists’ and activists’ perspectives on the social impact of their practice.