User account

Sandra Frimmel, Fabienne Liptay, Dorota Sajewska, Sylvia Sasse

»Handeln ohne literarische Ambitionen«. Ein Vorwort

in: Kunst als Alibi, p. 7 – 26

  • artistic practice
  • performativity
  • political aesthetics

My language
English

Selected content
English

Sandra Frimmel

Sandra Frimmel

is an art historian and the research coordinator of the Centre for Arts and Cultural Theory (ZKK) at the University of Zurich. Research interests: Russian art, art and power/law/society.
Other texts by Sandra Frimmel for DIAPHANES
Fabienne Liptay

Fabienne Liptay

Fabienne Liptay is a professor of Film Studies at the University of Zurich. Currently, she is directing the research project Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format (2017–2026), which was awarded an excellence grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She has published widely on the theory and aesthetics of the moving image, film exhibition, time-based artistic practice, and expanded cinema. Her publications include the monograph Telling Images: Studien zur Bildlichkeit des Films (diaphanes, 2016), as well as the co-edited volumes Taking Measures: Usages of Formats in Film and Video Art (Scheidegger & Spiess, 2023) in collaboration with the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, and Eco-operations (diaphanes, 2024) with Liliana Gómez in collaboration with the documenta Institut. Together with Dorota Sajewska and a group of researchers, artists, and curators, Fabienne Liptay founded the Institute for Performance and Film Expanded (www.ipf-expanded.com)—a platform for the transformative power of nondisciplinary thinking and art.
Other texts by Fabienne Liptay for DIAPHANES
Dorota Sajewska

Dorota Sajewska

Dorota Sajewska is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. From 2016 to 2023 she was Assistant Professor of Interart at the University of Zurich and of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on performative arts, body anthropology and decolonisation of knowledge. She is the author of numerous texts on performative practices, theories and archives, including the monograph Necroperformance. Cultural Reconstruction of the Body (2019) and the anthology Crisis and Communitas. Performative Concepts of Commonality in Art and Politics (2023). From 2008-2012 she was chief dramaturge and deputy artistic director of Teatr Dramatyczny in Warsaw. Since 2019 she has been working as a dramaturge with Alexandra Bachzetsis. In 2024, together with Fabienne Liptay, she founded the Institute for Performance and Film Expanded – a platform for the transformative power of transdisciplinary thinking and art.
Other texts by Dorota Sajewska for DIAPHANES
Sylvia Sasse

Sylvia Sasse

Sylvia Sasse is a professor of Slavic studies at the University of Zurich and co-founder of the ZKK (Centre for Arts and Cultural Theory), member of ZGW (Center "History of Knowledge"), and co-editor of "Geschichte der Gegenwart" (www.geschichtedergegenwart.ch).

Other texts by Sylvia Sasse for DIAPHANES
Sandra Frimmel (ed.), Artur Zmijewski, ...: Kunst als Alibi

Kunst als Alibi – damit ist eine Strategie des polnischen Videokünstlers Artur Żmijewski benannt. In seinen Arbeiten rehabilitiert Żmijewski die Idee der Wirkung von Kunst auf die Gesellschaft als Konzept autonomer Kunstproduktion. Dabei verzichtet er radikal auf eine Ästhetisierung der Wirklichkeit. Kunst ist für ihn vielmehr ein »Werkzeug«, ein »Mechanismus« und manchmal auch nur das »Alibi«, um politisch in die Welt eingreifen zu können. Er arbeitet mit MuseumsdirektorInnen, mit Frauen im Gefängnis, mit KünstlerInnen, AktivistInnen und PolitikerInnen.
Der vorliegende Band versammelt ausgewählte Essays, Gespräche und Bilder ­Żmijewskis, die die Idee der künstlerischen Praxis, die er selbst auch »Angewandte Gesellschaftskunst« nennt, vorstellen und diskutieren.