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Theory Tuesdays

Theory Tuesdays is a nonacademic platform for theoretical discussion founded, organized and coordinated by artist Philip Matesic since 2009. Participants read beforehand then discuss contemporary art, design, literary, cultural and critical theory on a weekly basis, with the texts selected and introduced each week by a different person.

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  • 2020
  • Session 238: Das terrestrische Manifest von Bruno ...
  • Session 237: White Girls by Hilton ...
  • Session 236: “The Art of ...
  • Session 235: Lonely by Emily ...
  • Session 234: Lyophilia & FAST DUMM von Ann ...
  • Session 233: Strike Art by Yates ...
  • Session 232: “Labours of Love” by ...
  • Session 231: STRING FIGURES von Jenny ...
  • Summer Planning Session – Atelier Hermann ...
  • Special Event: Terry Eagleton ...
  • Session 230: “A Brief Glossary of Social ...
  • Session 229: Why Marx Was Right by Terry ...
  • Session 228: “Living with Ghosts” by ...
  • Spring Planning Session
  • 2019
  • Session 227: Colonising Egypt by Timothy ...
  • Session 226: Arts in Place by Cara ...
  • Session 225: Allianzen. Kritische Praxis an ...
  • Session 224: “Feminist Theory, Embodiment, ...
  • Session 223: Capitalist Realism: Is There No ...
  • Session 222: “Brücke und Tür” von ...
  • Session 221: “Die Sprache der Dinge, Eine ...
  • 10-Years Theory Tuesdays ...
  • Session 220: Nuart Journal, Issue II: Eloquent ...
  • Session 219: Der Mensch und die Technik von ...
  • Fall / Winter Planning Session
  • Session 218: “Subjekt und Macht” von ...
  • Session 217: “MTV’s Jackass: ...
  • Session 216: “Geschlecht oder Kopf?” ...
  • Summer Planning Session
  • Session 215: Das hässliche Universum von Sabine ...
  • Session 214: Future Imperfect
  • Session 213: Blutsbande von Christina von ...
  • Session 212: Der Mensch ohne Inhalt von Giorgio ...
  • Session 211: “Unlearning Decisive Moments ...
  • Session 210: Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht. ...
  • Session 209: Mythen des Alltags von Roland ...
  • Session 208: 4.0 oder Die Lücke die der Rechner ...
  • Winter Planning Session
  • 2018
  • Session 207: Cosmic Pessimism by Eugene ...
  • Session 206: Pädagogik der Unterdrückten by ...
  • Session 205: Das Manifest für Gefährten von ...
  • Session 204: “Robots Should Be ...
  • Session 203: Wars and Capital By Éric Alliez and ...
  • Session 202: “Das Ornament der Masse” ...
  • Session 201: “Treffpunkt im Unendlichen. ...
  • Theory Tuesdays 200th Session!
  • Session 199: “The Garden of Merging ...
  • Session 198: Communists Anonymous – ...
  • Session 197: Enclosure by Gary Fields & ...
  • Session 196: “What is a Classic?” by ...
  • Session 195: “Das Spielelement der ...
  • Session 194: Curatorial Activism by Maura ...
  • Session 193: Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz ...
  • Session 192: Hal Foster & Timothy ...
  • Session 191: Vampyroteuthis Infernalis by Vilém ...
  • Session 190: On Bullshit by Harry ...
  • Session 189: Die lange Nacht der Metamorphose von ...
  • Session 188: The Refusal of Work by David ...
  • Planning Session – KUNSTHALLE ...
  • 2017
  • Session 187: The Strange Death of Europe by ...
  • Session 186: “How to Build a Universe That ...
  • Session 185: “Remembering in Art: The ...
  • Session 184: “Artists on Arts Education. A ...
  • Session 183: “The Posthuman” by Rosi ...
  • Session 182: “Undeclared War: Violence ...
  • Session 181: “Men Explain Things to ...
  • Session 180: “Essayism” by Brian ...
  • Session 179: “The Carrier Bag Theory of ...
  • Session 178: “Scandalous: A Reader on Art ...
  • Session 177: “Der Eindringling” von ...
  • Session 176: Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for ...
  • Session 175: Tell Them I Said No by Martin ...
  • Session 174: “Von Jetzt An Werde Ich ...
  • Session 173: “The Argonauts” by Maggie Nelson ...
  • Session 172: “Pornotopia: Architektur, ...
  • Session 171: “Can Jokes Bring Down ...
  • Session 170: “Fixing One’s Eyes On A ...
  • Session 169: “The Burnout Society” by ...
  • Session 168: “Selbst” by Thomas ...
  • 2016
  • Session 167: “Schneller als die Sonne” by ...
  • Session 166: “Empire Poetry” by Dena ...
  • Session 165: “Social Media: Practices of ...
  • Session 164: “Passivität” by Kathrin ...
  • Session 163: “The Parasite” by Michel ...
  • Session 162: “Seeing Through Police” ...
  • Session 161: “Chaos in Poetry” by ...
  • Session 160: “Reclaiming Animism” by ...
  • Session 159: “Das Theorem der Neuen Landnahme: ...
  • Session 158: “Hinter weißen Wänden: ...
  • Session 157: “Über die allmähliche ...
  • Session 156: “History Of Shit” by ...
  • Session 155: “
Kollaboration” by ...
  • Session 154: “Culture Class” by ...
  • Session 153: “Design For The Real ...
  • 2015
  • Session 152: Boring Formless Nonsense by Eldritch ...
  • Session 151: Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking ...
  • Session 150: Bomb The Suburbs by William Upski ...
  • Session 149: Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture ...
  • Session 148: “Rational Authority and Social ...
  • Session 147: “Beer, Art and Philosophy: A ...
  • Session 146: Drone Theory by Gregoire ...
  • Session 145: “Seeing Is Forgetting the Name ...
  • Session 144: “Der Glanz des Materials. Zur ...
  • Session 143: “Declaration Of ...
  • Session 142: “Un-War: An Aesthetic Sketch” by ...
  • Session 141: Selected Writings by Robert ...
  • Session 140: “Transparenzgesellschaft” by ...
  • Session 139: “Marcel Duchamp and The Refusal of ...
  • Session 138: “A Rhetoric of Irony” by Wayne ...
  • Session 137: “Dark Matter: Art and Politics in ...
  • Session 136: “The Artist’s ...
  • Session 135: “Visual Evidence and Agency ...
  • Session 134: After Theory by Terry ...
  • 2014
  • “5 Years / 133 Sessions” ...
  • Session 133: “ABC of Reading” by Ezra ...
  • Session 132: “Profondo Rosso” by Dario ...
  • Session 131: PRESENT SHOCK: When Everything ...
  • Session 130: «DEVORATION» by ...
  • Session 129: “Conceptual Art 1962-1969: From ...
  • Session 128: “Searching for Art’s New ...
  • Session 127: Jeff Keen ...
  • Session 126: “Cypherpunks” & ...
  • Session 125: “24/7: Late Capitalism and the ...
  • Session 124: “The Labor of the Inhuman, Part I: ...
  • Session 123: „Cultural Logic of Criticality“ ...
  • Session 122: OnCurating “(New) ...
  • Session 121: “Radical Museology, or, ...
  • 2013
  • Session 120: “The Beauty of My Island – ...
  • Session 119: “Torrent” ...
  • Session 118: “Collective Desire and the ...
  • Session 117: “Style Writing” by Scum, ...
  • Session 116: ...
  • Session 115: “The Pervert’s Guide to ...
  • Session 114: “The Creation of the Urban ...
  • Session 113: “The People’s Library at ...
  • Session 112: “Open Call: Art, Democracy and ...
  • Session 111: “Male Performers and Drag ...
  • Session 110: “Solution 196–213: United ...
  • Session 109: Everything is in Everything: Jacques ...
  • Session 108: “Bürger erhebt euch!: ...
  • Session 107: “Digital Divide” by ...
  • Session 106: “Why Has Critique Run out of ...
  • Session 105: “tainted love: art’s ...
  • Session 104: “Production, Capital and ...
  • Session 103: “Production, Capital and ...
  • 2012
  • Session 102: “Calder’s ...
  • Session 101: “Paul ...
  • Session 100: “3-Years / 100 Sessions Theory ...
  • Session 99: “The Art World Establishment ...
  • Session 98: “Are You Working Too ...
  • Session 97: “Dieter Roth” by Edith ...
  • Session 96: “Manifesta 9” & ...
  • Session 95: “Ecstatic Alphabets / Heaps of ...
  • Session 94: “Under the Gaze of ...
  • Session 93: “On Beyond Research and New ...
  • Session 92: “Liste 16: Absolute Art ...
  • Session 91: “Art and the ...
  • Session 90: “The Body as a Medium: ...
  • Session 89: “Exit Through The Gift ...
  • Session 88: “Robinson in Ruins” by ...
  • Session 87: “A Productive Irritant: ...
  • Session 86: “Artistic ...
  • Session 85: “Writing the Self: Of Diaries ...
  • Session 84: “Applied Social Arts” by ...
  • Session 83: “Un Homme Qui Dort” by ...
  • Session 82: “Space – Place – ...
  • Session 81: “See it Again, Say it Again: The ...
  • Session 80: Visiting Artist Talk with Róza El ...
  • 2011
  • Session 79: “Santiago Sierra” episode ...
  • Session 78: “Quality Time: Social Practice ...
  • Session 77: ...
  • Session 76: “The Café Society” Part ...
  • Session 75: “The Café Society” Part ...
  • Session 74: “Living in the Loop” by ...
  • Session 73: “Aesthetic Sovereignty” by ...
  • Session 72: “The ...
  • Session 71: “Jacques Tati Film ...
  • Session 70: “Thoughts from Curator V” ...
  • Session 69: What Does Public Mean? Art as a ...
  • Session 68: “What Is Critical Urban Theory?” ...
  • Session 67: “Slow Days ...
  • Session 66: The Radicant by Nicolas ...
  • Session 65: “First Person, Second Person, ...
  • Session 64: ...
  • Session 63: “The Aesthetic Critique of ...
  • Session 62: “The Emancipated ...
  • Session 61: Visiting Artist Talk with Nicole ...
  • Session 60: “Between Zones. On the ...
  • Session 59: “Derrida” ...
  • Session 58: “Derrida, An Egyptian” by Peter ...
  • Session 57: “Derrida, An Egyptian” by ...
  • Session 56: “The Art of Survival: The Story ...
  • Session 55: “Dispersion” by Seth ...
  • Session 54: “Thinking About The Public In ...
  • Session 53: “The Colour of Beauty” by ...
  • Session 52: Nelson Goodman & Catherine ...
  • Session 51: “The Experience of Art as a ...
  • Session 50: “Soviet Avant-Garde ...
  • Session 49: The Nightmare of Participation by ...
  • Session 48: “Field Notes From Manifesta ...
  • 2010
  • Session 47: “The Age of ...
  • Session 46: “Surrealist Film ...
  • Session 45: “Commons-Based Peer ...
  • Session 44: “Temporality and Public ...
  • Session 43: “Schenkepisoden” with ...
  • Session 42: “Jenny Holzer” film by ...
  • Session 41: “Digital Folklore” edited ...
  • Session 40: Visiting Artist Talk with Antoni ...
  • Session 39: Visiting Artist Talk with Jana ...
  • Session 38: The Conspiracy of Art by Jean ...
  • Session 37: “Platzt der Kunst das Herz?” ...
  • Session 36: Having Been Said: Writings & ...
  • Session 35: “Blows Against the ...
  • Session 34: Visiting Artist Talk with Chris ...
  • Session 33: “Danh Vo in Conversation with ...
  • Session 32: “Here Is Always Somewhere ...
  • Session 31: “The Uses of Disorder: Joe ...
  • Session 30: “Wide Details: On The Traces Of ...
  • Session 29: “Oswald de Andrade’s ...
  • Session 28: “Eine Ameise der Kunst” ...
  • Session 27: “Design Thinking or Critical ...
  • Session 26: Visiting Artist Talk with Lada ...
  • Session 25: “The Fracturing of ...
  • Session 24: “On the Relationship Between ...
  • Session 23: “What’s In A ...
  • Session 22: Visiting Artist Talk with Nic Hess ...
  • Session 21: Celebration at Persepolis by Michael ...
  • Session 20: “Foksal Gallery and the Notion ...
  • Session 19: “Paragraphs on Conceptual ...
  • Session 18: Migrants of Identity by Nigel Rapport ...
  • Session 17: “Inside The White Cube” ...
  • Session 16: “The Artist as ...
  • Session 15: “The Ends of Exile: Toward A ...
  • Session 14: “Dada Historical Review” ...
  • Session 13: “Dada Historical Review” ...
  • 2009
  • Session 12: Altermodern
  • Session 11: “Back to Fucking ...
  • Session 10: Art As Experience by John ...
  • Session 9: Ästhetik der Interpassivität by ...
  • Session 8: “Lipstick Traces: A Secret ...
  • Session 7: “On the Passage of a Few People ...
  • Session 6: Visiting Artist Talk with Saskia de ...
  • Session 5: “Interview: Vito Acconci on Art, ...
  • Session 4: Miwon Kwon and ...
  • Session 3: Claire Bishop, Nicolas Bourriaud and ...
  • Session 2: Boris Groys and Allan ...
  • Session 1: “Toward Participation in Art” ...

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Founded and coordinated by Philip Matesic.