The guest talk is part of a collaboration between the Center for Research in Artistic Practice under Contemporary Conditions (CRAPCC, Aarhus University) and Kunsthal Aarhus. It is the second talk in the new program series "Experts of the Undercommons" organized by postdoc Tobias Dias (Aarhus University) in Kunsthal Aarhus. 

Many contemporary art practices experiment with form. Going beyond narrowly artistic concerns, this engagement often involves fundamental social and political debates on questions of hierarchy, horizontality, and centralization. To give form to the world is also to (re)organize it. Against the background of 1990s and early 2000s debates on the discourses and practices of ‘relational aesthetics’ and ‘tactical media’, this talk will outline an ‘organizational aesthetics’ as developed (in sometimes contradictory ways) by some of today's most relevant artists, activists, theorists, and collectives.

The talk lasts approximately 1,5 hours and will afterwards be open for questions and discussion!

Bio: Sven Lütticken is associate professor at Leiden University’s “Academy of Creative and Performing Arts” and coordinates the research master's program “Critical Studies in Art and Culture” at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He recently published “Art and Autonomy: A Critical Reader” (Afterall, 2022) and “Objections: Forms of Abstraction, Volume 1” (Sternberg Press, 2022).

The event is supported by Novo Nordisk Fonden.