PAST THEORY TUESDAYS SESSIONS

2009
Session 1: Toward Participation in Art by Rudolf Frieling
Session 2: Boris Groys & Allan Kaprow
Session 3: Claire Bishop, Nicolas Bourriaud & Lars Bang Larsen
Session 4: Miwon Kwon & Cascoland
Session 5: Vito Acconci on Art, Architecture, Arvada and Storefront by Tom Finkelpearl & Social Acupuncture by Darren O’ Donnell
Session 6: Artist talk with Saskia de Brauw (NL)
Session 7: Film - On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972 & La Société du spectacle
Session 8: Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century by Greil Marcus
Session 9: Ästhetik der Interpassivität by Robert Pfaller
Session 10: Art As Experience by John Dewey
Session 11: Film - Back to Fucking Cambridge by Otto Mühl & Terese Panoutsopoulos
Session 12: Altermodern (Tate Triennial exhibition catalogue) curated by Nicolas Bourriaud

2010
Session 13: Dada Historical Review (Part I) at Cabaret Voltaire
Session 14: Dada Historical Review (Part II) at Cabaret Voltaire
Session 15: The Ends of Exile: Toward A Coming Universality by T.J. Demos & Modernity and Postcolonial Ambivalence by Okwui Enwezor
Session 16: The Artist as Ethnographer? & Design and Crime by Hal Foster
Session 17: Inside The White Cube & Studio And Cube by Brian O’Doherty
Session 18: Migrants of Identity by Nigel Rapport & Andrew Dawson
Session 19: Paragraphs on Conceptual Art by Sol LeWitt & The Challenge of Conceptual Art by Peter Goldie & Elisabeth Schellekens
Session 20: Foksal Gallery and the Notion of Archive: Between Inventory and Place by Pawel Polit
Session 21: Celebration at Persepolis by Michael Stevenson
Session 22: Artist talk with Nic Hess (DE)
Session 23: What’s In A Voice? by Mladen Dolar
Session 24: On the Relationship Between the Art Public and the Counterpublic by Marion von Osten
Session 25: The Fracturing of Globalization by Julian Stallabrass & Acting Out in the City by Hou Hanru
Session 26: Visiting artist talk with Lada Nakonechna (UA)
Session 27: Design Thinking or Critical Design? by Rick Poynor & Middle Culture by Camiel van Winkel
Session 28: Film - Die Ameise der Kunst von Peter Sempel mit Jonathan Meese & Blixa Bargeld
Session 29: Oswald de Andrade’s Cannibalist Manifesto by Leslie Bary & Anthropophagic Subjectivity by Suely Rolnik
Session 30: Film - Wide Details: On The Traces Of Francis Alÿs by Julien Devaux
Session 31: The Uses of Disorder: Joe Scanlan on the art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Session 32: Film - Here is Always Somewhere Else: The Disappearance of Bas Jan Ader
Session 33: Danh Vo in Conversation with Dominic Eichler interview
Session 34: Artist talk with Chris Tourre (US)
Session 35: Blows Against the Empire by Ted Purves
Session 36: Having Been Said: Writings & Interviews of Lawrence Weiner
Session 37: Platzt der Kunst das Herz? Gespräche mit Daniel Binswanger
Session 38: The Conspiracy of Art by Jean Baudrillard
Session 39: Artist talk with Jana Stepanova (CZ)
Session 40: Artist talk with Antoni Wojtyra (CA)
Session 41: Digital Folklore edited by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied
Session 42: Film - Jenny Holzer by Claudia Mueller
Session 43: Schenkepisoden with Manuel Hartmann (AT)
Session 44: Temporality and Public Art by Patrica C. Phillips
Session 45: Commons-Based Peer Production with Elizeu Santos-Neto (BR)
Session 46: Film - Surrealism selection
Session 47: The Age of Semi-Post-Postmodernism by Ben Davis & Postmodernism and Consumer Society by Fredric Jameson

2011
Session 48: Field notes from Manifesta 8 with Daniela
Session 49: The Nightmare of Participation by Markus Miessen
Session 50: Film - Soviet Avant-Garde Cinema selection
Session 51: The Experience of Art as a Living Through of Language by Kate Love
Session 52: Nelson Goodman & Catherine Elgin
Session 53: The Colour of Beauty by John O’ Donohue
Session 54: Thinking About The Public In Public Art & Agility in Public Interviews
Session 55: Dispersion by Seth Price
Session 56: Films - The Art of Survival: The Story of Tim Rollins & K.O.S. & A State of Agreement
Session 57: Derrida, An Egyptian by Peter Sloterdijk (Part I)
Session 58: Derrida, An Egyptian by Peter Sloterdijk (Part II)
Session 59: Film - Derrida by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering
Session 60: Between Zones. On the Representation of the Performative and the Notation of Movement
Session 61: Artist talk with Nicole Bachmann (CH)
Session 62: The Emancipated Spectator by Jacques Ranciere
Session 63: The Aesthetic Critique of Judgment by Christoph Menke
Session 64: Exhibition discussion - Language/Standards/Objects
Session 65: First Person, Second Person, Same Person by Mieke Bal
Session 66: The Radicant by Nicolas Bourriaud
Session 67: Field notes from Slow Days Oslo with Daniel & Philip
Session 68: What Is Critical Urban Theory? by Neil Brenner & Junkspace by Rem Koolhaas
Session 69: What Does Public Mean? Art as a participant in the Public Arena edited by Tone Hansen
Session 70: Thoughts from Curator V by Markús Thór Andrésson
Session 71: Film - Jacques Tati selection
Session 72: The Exhibitionist curatorial magazine
Session 73: Aesthetic Sovereignty by Christoph Menke
Session 74: Living in the Loop by Diedrich Diederichsen
Session 75: The Café Society Part I
Session 76: The Café Society Part II
Session 77: Play-Mobile public art project
Session 78: Quality Time: Social Practice Debates in Contemporary Art by Shannon Jackson
Session 79: Film - Santiago Sierra episode on Art Safari by Ben Lewis

2012
Session 80: Artist talk with Róza El Hassan (HU)
Session 81: See it Again, Say it Again: The Artist as Researcher edited by Janneke Wesseling
Session 82: Space – Place – Society: Are we all suburbanized? (Robert Fishman, Thomas Sieverts & Walter Prigge)
Session 83: Film - Un Homme Qui Dort by Georges Perec & Bernard Queysanne
Session 84: Applied Social Arts by Artur Żmijewski
Session 85: Writing the Self: Of Diaries and Weblogs by José van Dijck
Session 86: Artistic Research (James Elkins & Isabelle Graw)
Session 87: A Productive Irritant: Parasitical Inhabitations in Contemporary Art by Post Brothers & Chris Fitzpatrick
Session 88: Robinson in Ruins by Patrick Keiller
Session 89: Film - Exit Through The Gift Shop by Banksy
Session 90: The Body as a Medium: Switzerland’s Performance Network by Rayelle Niemann
Session 91: Art and the City public art projects in Zürich
Session 92: Liste 16: Absolute Art Space by Edith Jud
Session 93: On Beyond Research and New Knowledge by James Elkins
Session 94: Under the Gaze of Theory by Boris Groys
Session 95: Bulletins of the Serving Library by Dexter Sinister
Session 96: Field notes from Manifesta 9 & The Paris Triennale with Olga
Session 97: Film - Dieter Roth by Edith Jud
Session 98: Are You Working Too Much? edited by Julieta Aranda, Anton Vidokle & Brian Kuan Wood
Session 99: The Art World Establishment (to varying degrees) with Linda Jensen
Session 100: 3-Years / 100 Sessions Theory Tuesdays celebration
Session 101: Film - Paul Sharits selection
Session 102: Film - Calder’s Circus by Carlos Vilardebó

2013
Session 103: Starting from Work by Christian Marazzi
Session 104: Molecular Revolutions and Desire is Power, Power is Desire by Félix Guattari & transverse by Bifo – Franco Berardi
Session 105: tainted love: art’s ethos and capitalization by suhail malik and andrea philips
Session 106: Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? by Bruno Latour
Session 107: Digital Divide by Claire Bishop
Session 108: Bürger erhebt euch!: Postdemokratie, Neoliberalismus und ziviler Ungehorsam bei Markus Metz & Georg Seesslen
Session 109: Everything is in Everything: Jacques Rancière between Intellectual Emancipation and Aesthetic Education
Session 110: Solution 196–213: United States of Palestine-Israel edited by Joshua Simon
Session 111: Film - Male Performers and Drag Persona selection
Session 112: Open Call: Art, Democracy and the Culture of Consensus by David Geers
Session 113: The People’s Library at the Public Museum a project by Matthias Neumann
Session 114: The Creation of the Urban Commons by David Harvey
Session 115: Film - The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema by Sophie Fiennes with Slavoj Žižek
Session 116: Print-Renaissance with Mara Züst
Session 117: Style Writing by Scum, Cheech H and Techno 169
Session 118: Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual by Jodi Dean
Session 119: Torrent magazine with Linda Jensen
Session 120: Film - The Beauty of My Island - Shooting Klaus Lutz by Frank Matter

2014
Session 121: Radical Museology, or, What’s Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art? by Claire Bishop
Session 122: OnCurating magazine - (New) Institution(alism)
Session 123: Cultural Logic of Criticality by Marina Vishmidt
Session 124: The Labor of the Inhuman, Part I: Human & Contingency and Complicity by Reza Negarestani
Session 125: 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
Session 126: Fighting Total Surveillance with the Laws of Man by Julian Assange & Bioterror by Philipp Sarasin
Session 127: Film - Jeff Keen selection
Session 128: Searching for Art’s New Publics edited by Jeni Walwin
Session 129: Conceptual Art 1962-1969: From the Aesthetics of Administration to the Critique of Institutions by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh
Session 130: DEVORATION by FUZI-UVTPK
Session 131: PRESENT SHOCK: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff
Session 132: Film - Profondo Rosso by Dario Argento
Session 133: ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound
Session 134: 5 Years / 133 Sessions performance by Daniel and Philip

2015
Session 134: After Theory by Terry Eagleton
Session 135: Forensic Architecture by Eyal Weizman, Material Witness by David Joselit & The Civil Contract of Photography by Ariella Azoulay
Session 136: The Artist’s Contract by Seth Siegelaub
Session 137: Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture by Gregory Sholette
Session 138: A Rhetoric of Irony by Wayne C. Booth
Session 139: Marcel Duchamp and The Refusal of Work by Maurizio Lazzarato
Session 140: Transparenzgesellschaft by Byung-Chul Han
Session 141: Selected Writings by Robert Smithson
Session 142: Un-War: An Aesthetic Sketch by Rosalyn Deutsche
Session 143: Declaration Of Dependence by Laura McLean-Ferris
Session 144: Der Glanz des Materials. Zur Kritik der ästhetischen Ökonomie by Gernot Böhme
Session 145: Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Robert Irwin & Lawrence Weschler
Session 146: Drone Theory by Gregoire Chamayou
Session 147: Beer, Art and Philosophy: A Memoir by Tom Marioni
Session 148: Rational Authority and Social Power: Towards a Truly Social Epistemology by Miranda Fricker
Session 149: Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society by Raymond Williams
Session 150: Bomb The Suburbs by William Upski Wimsatt
Session 151: Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World by Barbara Ehrenreich
Session 152: Boring Formless Nonsense by Eldritch Priest

2016
Session 153: Design For The Real World by Victor Papanek
Session 154: Culture Class by Martha Rosler
Session 155: Kollaboration by Mark Terkessidis
Session 156: History of Shit by Dominique Laporte
Session 157: Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden von Heinrich von Kleist (1807)
Session 158: Hinter weißen Wänden: Behind the White Cube by Julia Voss
Session 159: Das Theorem der Neuen Landnahme: Eine feministische Rückeroberung by Die Feministische Autorinnengruppe
Session 160: Reclaiming Animism by Isabelle Stengers
Session 161: Chaos in Poetry by D.H. Lawrence
Session 162: Seeing Through Police by Mark Greif
Session 163: The Parasite by Michel Serres
Session 164: Passivität by Kathrin Busch
Session 165: Social Media: Practices of (In)Visibility in Contemporary Art by Sven Lütticken
Session 166: Empire Poetry by Dena Yago
Session 167: Schneller als die Sonne von Hans-Christian Dany

2017
Session 168: Selbst von Thomas Meinecke
Session 169: The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
Session 170: Fixing One’s Eyes On A Model by Francois Jullien
Session 171: Can Jokes Bring Down Goverments? by Metahaven
Session 172: Pornotopia: Architektur, Sexualität und Multimedia im ‘Playboy' von Beatriz Preciado
Session 173: The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Session 174: Von Jetzt An Werde Ich Mehrere Sein von Eva Meyer
Session 175: Tell Them I Said No by Martin Herbert
Session 176: Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution by Andrew Boyd
Session 177: Der Eindringling von Jean-Luc Nancy
Session 178: Scandalous: A Reader on Art and Ethics edited by Nina Möntmann
Session 179: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula Le Guin
Session 180: Essayism by Brian Dillon
Session 181: Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Session 182: Undeclared War: Violence Against Women by Silvia Federici
Session 183: The Posthuman by Rosi Braidotti
Session 184: Arts Education Beyond Art edited by Barend van Heusden & Pascal Gielen
Session 185: Remembering in Art: The Horizontal and the Vertical by Siri Hustvedt
Session 186: How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later by Philip K. Dick
Session 187: The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray

2018
Session 188: The Refusal of Work by David Frayne
Session 189: Die lange Nacht der Metamorphose von Guillaume Paoli
Session 190: On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt
Session 191: Vampyroteuthis Infernalis by Vilém Flusser & Louis Bec
Session 192: Hal Foster & Timothy Brennan
Session 193: Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
Session 194: Curatorial Activism by Maura Reilly
Session 195: Das Spielelement der Kultur von Johan Huizinga
Session 196: What is a Classic? by J.M. Coetzee
Session 197: Enclosure by Gary Fields & This Land Is Your Land by Raja Shehadeh
Session 198: Solution 275-294 – Communists Anonymous edited by Joshua Simon & Ingo Niermann
Session 199: The Garden of Merging Paths by Rebecca Solnit
Session 200: Georgian tradition of ceremonial toasting (‘supra’) celebration
Session 201: Treffpunkt im Unendlichen. Das Problem mit der Indentität von Kokoscha Linkerhands
Session 202: Das Ornament der Masse von Siegfried Kracauer & Der Horror, Vacui von Colin Lang
Session 203: Wars and Capital by Éric Alliez & Maurizio Lazzarato
Session 204: Robots Should Be Slaves by Joanna J. Bryson
Session 205: Das Manifest für Gefährten von Donna Haraway
Session 206: Pädagogik der Unterdrückten von Paulo Freire
Session 207: Cosmic Pessimism by Eugene Thacker

2019
Session 208: 4.0 oder Die Lücke die der Rechner lässt von Dirk Baecker
Session 209: Mythen des Alltags von Roland Barthes
Session 210: Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht von Susan Arndt & Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard
Session 211: Unlearning Decisive Moments of Photography by Ariella Azoulay
Session 212: Der Mensch ohne Inhalt von Giorgio Agamben
Session 213: Blutsbande von Christina von Braun
Session 214: Future Imperfect by Jan Cohen-Cruz, Elizabeth M. Grady & Grant Kester
Session 215: Das hässliche Universum von Sabine Hossenfelder
Session 216: Geschlecht oder Kopf? von Hélène Cixous
Session 217: MTV’s Jackass: Transgression, Abjection and the Economy of White Masculinity by Sean Brayton
Session 218: Subjekt und Macht von Michel Foucault
Session 219: Der Mensch und die Technik von Nikolai A. Berdiajew
Session 220: Nuart journal, Issue II: Eloquent Vandals
Session 221: Die Sprache der Dinge, Eine materialistische Sicht auf dokumentarische Praxen von Hito Steyerl
Session 222: Brücke und Tür von Georg Simmel
Session 223: Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher
Session 224: Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent by Saba Mahmood
Session 225: Allianzen. Kritische Praxis an weißen Institutionen edited by E. Liepsch, J. Warner & M. Pees
Session 226: Arts in Place by Cara Courage
Session 227: Colonizing Egypt by Timothy Mitchell

2020
Session 228: Living with Ghosts by Jan Verwoert
Session 229: Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton
Session 230: A Brief Glossary of Social Sadism” by Ana Teixeira Pinto & Kerstin Stakemeier
Session 231: STRING FIGURES von Jenny Schäfer
Session 232: Labours of Love by Danielle Child, Helena Reckitt & Jenny Richards
Session 233: Strike Art by Yates McKee
Session 234: Lyophilia & FAST DUMM von Ann Cotten
Session 235: Lonely by Emily White
Session 236: The Art of Discrimination by Helmut Draxler
Session 237: White Girls by Hilton Als
Session 238: Das terrestrische Manifest von Bruno Latour

2021
Session 239: Verlernen von Marie Luise Knott
Session 240: Geschichte(n) des Kunststreiks von Sofia Bempeza
Session 241: The Selfishness of Others by Kristin Dombek
Session 242: Gesichtserkennung von Roland Meyer
Session 243: Kultur und Identität von Édouard Glissant
Session 244: One Number Is Worth One Word by Luis Camnitzer

2022
Session 245: D.H. Lawrence on Edgar Allan Poe
Session 246: Contemporary Art Writing Daily on Ed Atkins’s 'The worm'
Session 247: The Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks
Session 248: A Savage Performance by Diana Taylor

2025
Session 249: The Theory of Loose Parts by Simon Nicholson
Session 250: Philosophie der Migration von Donatella Di Cesare
Session 251: Design by Accident by Alexandra Midal
Session 252: Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Natur und Kultur von Wolfgang Welsch