Christian Kravagna: Adolf Loos and the Colonial Imaginary
Montag, 26. März 2012 - 19:00 Uhr
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Christian Kravagna is an art historian, critic and curator. He is Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He is the editor of the books Privileg Blick. Kritik der visuellen Kultur, Berlin 1997; Agenda. Perspektiven kritischer Kunst, Vienna/Bozen 2000; The Museum as Arena: Artists on Institutional Critique, Cologne 2001 and Routes: Imaging travel and migration, Frankfurt 2007. Kravagna has curated exhibitions like Living Across: Spaces of Migration, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2010; Planetary Consciousness, Kunstraum der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 2008; Migration: Globalisation of Cultural Space and Time, Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, 2003 (with Amit Mukhopadhyay) and Routes: Imaging travel and migration, Grazer Kunstverein 2002. Since 2005 he is curator (with Hedwig Saxenhuber) at Kunstraum Lakeside in Klagenfurt, a center for contemporary art and theory.
The lecture series 2011/2012 addresses the question: Is there architecture history after Foucault? The IKA invites historians, scientists and architecture theorists from various fields and disciplines to discuss more fundamental issues of the practices of a historian which are diversely effected by the major impact of Michel Foucault's writings. However, the main focus of the lectures is rather generally on methodo-logical approaches of subsequent historical research and knowledge. The lectures will help to redefine architecture history's position today.