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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 in Zurich, Switzerland. Participants read beforehand then discuss contemporary art, design, literary, cultural and critical theory. The sessions are free, open to the public and held in English and German. Join us!

  • Upcoming
  • Archive
  • About
  • Location
  • Practical Fridays
  • Outside Sundays
  • 2022
  • Lunch Session 4: “A Savage ...
  • Lunch Session 3: The Brutish Museums by Dan ...
  • Lunch Session 2: Contemporary Art Writing Daily ...
  • Lunch Session 1: D.H. Lawrence on Edgar Allan Poe ...
  • 2021
  • Session 244: One Number Is Worth One Word by Luis ...
  • Session 243: Kultur und Identität von Édouard ...
  • Session 242: Gesichtserkennung von Roland ...
  • Session 241: The Selfishness of Others by Kristin ...
  • Session 240: Geschichte(n) des Kunststreiks von ...
  • Session 239: Verlernen von Marie Luise ...
  • Summer Planning Session
  • 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
  • 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 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.