Norm der Abweichung (Edition Voldemeer Zürich / Theorie: Gestaltung)

by Marion von Osten (Editor)

Soziale Bewegungen, Subkulturen, kunstlerische und politische Avantgarden, aber auch die vielfaltigen Mikropolitiken des Alltags demonstrieren, dass die Apparate der Machtausubung den Eigensinn der Subjekte nicht vollstandig absorbieren konnen. Was aber, wenn "Anti-Disziplin" selbst zur Norm wird? Die Kritik am patriarchalen Familienzusammenhang und die sexuelle Revolution haben alternative Lebensweisen hervorgebracht, in denen sich neue Subjektivitats- und Beziehungsmodelle entwickelten. Die damit einhergehende soziale Ungebundenheit harmoniert indes trefflich mit den Mobilitats- und Flexibilitatszumutungen, die den Individuen heute auferlegt werden. Begehrensstrukturen und Praxismodelle ehemals subkultureller Gegenwelten sind heute fester Bestandteil der sich globalisierenden Okonomie. Wenn Dissidenz, Kritik und Subversion zum Motor der Modernisierung eben jener Verhaltnisse werden, die zu unterminieren sie einmal angetreten waren, verkehrt sich das Verhaltnis von Norm und Abweichung.

282 pages, Paperback

First published May 27, 2003

About the author

Marion von Osten (born 1963) is an artist, curator, researcher, organizer-facilitator, and teacher. She is Honorary Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. She works with curatorial, artistic, and theoretical approaches that converge through the medium of exhibitions, installations, video, and text productions. Her main research interests concern cultural production in postcolonial societies, technologies of the self, and the governance of mobility. She is a founding member of Labor k3000 in Zürich and of kleines post-fordistisches Drama (kpD) and the Center for Post-colonial Knowledge and Culture in Berlin. Between 2006 and 2012 she was Professor of Art and Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna. From 1999 through 2006 she was Professor of Artistic Practice and researcher at the Institute for the Theory of Art and Design (ith), Zürich University of the Arts, Zürich. She has also lectured at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York and the Critical Studies Program, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö. Prior to that she was curator at Shedhalle Zürich from 1996 to 1999. Recent research and exhibition projects include: Tricontinentale.net, Center for Post-Colonial Knowledge and Culture, Berlin, 2014; Model House—Mapping Transcultural Modernisms, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, 2010–2013; Architectures of Decolonization, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris, 2011–2012; The American Home, Hessel Museum, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2011; In the Desert of Modernity—Colonial Planning and After, Les Abattoirs de Casablanca, Casablanca, 2009 and House of World Cultures, Berlin, 2008; Projekt Migration, Cologne, 2002–2006; and TRANSIT MIGRATION, Zürich, Frankfurt, and Cologne, 2003–2005. Von Osten lives and works in Berlin. [Last updated 2016]