This document contains summaries of presentations from the "Dissident Knowledges" conference. It addresses topics such as spectatorship in art, critiques of contemporary art theory, alternative histories from non-Western perspectives, and issues of identity and representation. The summaries propose new ways of thinking about art and its relationship to society, history, and political contexts.

1. Dissident
Knowledges
Maria Hlavajova

2. Propositions
 Defy conventional fictions of contemporary
histories
 “new world order”
 Crisis and instability as knowledge

3. Art After Spectatorship?
 Spectatorship as a creative act
 Spectatorship as part of the work
 Social media as material
 Questions of contemporary contexts

4. Critique of Groy’s The Logic
of Equal Aesthetic Rights
 Art in deregulation
 Collapse of ideology
 Young British Artists
 Emerging markets & global financial crisis
 Concept of art in cosmic exile
 Interpretation as the external guarantor of
contemporary art

5. When Platitudes Becomes Form
Christopher Kulendran Thomas&
Tom Trevatt

6. Points
 Sri Lanka vìs-a-vìs England
 Connoisseurial commercialism
 Contemporary art boom
 Context that is not contemporary
 2009
 Unjust peace after 3 decades of civil war

9. Alternative
Histories &
Archives

10. The Form of the Content
Nida Ghouse & Hassan Khan

11. 17 and in AUC
 1990-1995
 American University in Cairo
 2003
 Performance
 4 hours for 14 nights, cigarettes and beers
 2011
 Looking back at the event

12. Memories of University
 Norms and social order
 Class and class formation
 Creation of a specific elite
 Subculture in the university
 Double alienation
 Alienation from the institution
 Alienation from Cairo

13. Sketches for an Alternative
Arab Almanac 1989-2013
Rasha Salti
 US & Arab World
 1991 as end of the 20th century
 2 years after fall of Berlin Wall & Tiananmen Square
Massacre, 10 years after election of Ronald Reagan
(Reagan Doctrine), 12 years after Iranian revolution
 Political into moral
 Quality of life crimes
 Locating the “moral”
 Dystopia
 Bankrupt the political imaginary
 Reflect on the “history” of Arab insurgencies

14. Critical Points
 1973
 Saudi Embargo
 1974
 Palestinian representation in the UN

15. “Violence is the lack of
imagination”

16. A Roma Model/ The
Cosmopolitan Other
Daniel Baker & Ethel Brooks

17. Roma Model
 Roma world view in opposition to the nation state
 Concept of camp & encampment
 Reclaiming & moving forward of being Roma
 Sustainability of 12 million Roma
 Protest camp & archives, occupied camp

18. African? I Guess
Nástio Mosquito

19. Points
 Angola
 1975, after 500 years of occupation
 Caught between Soviet Union, US and their allies
 Representation and identity politics
 Attraction and assault

20. Language, Und
erstanding &
Translations
An Author without a Translator is no Author

21. Global Agoraphilia
Piotr Piotrowski

22. Points
 Critique of globalization
 Global politeia
 Artistic instruments
 Enter and participate in public space
 Shape public life

23. Aernout Mik, Untitled
 Scrutinize building blocks of contemporary art
 Test the limits of of disobedience and non-
compliance
 Conditions of society, moments of revolt and
rebellion

25. Aernout Mik, Untitled, 2013
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