Munich Contributors

Andcompany&Co - Kriegserklärung
*andcompany&Co.* is an artist’s network, currently based in Amsterdam. The collaboration with artists from different backgrounds is the goal and the meaning of this context. The occasion is usually a theatre production, but the stage can also be the street, public space, a club or skyscraper. The steady growth of the network is a precondition of the work of andcompany&Co.

Julieta Aranda - National Anthem
Julieta Aranda is a Mexico-born, New York based, artist. Together with Anton Vidokle, Julieta put together e-flux video rental, which started in the e-flux storefront in New York and has travelled around the world.

Konrad Becker - TOP OS - Theaters of Possession Operation Systems
Konrad Becker is a hypermedia and interdisciplinary communication researcher, director of the Institute for New Culture Technologies, and World-Information.Org, a cultural intelligence provider, Co-founder and chairman of Public Netbase from 1994 to 2006. He has been active in electronic media as an author, artist, composer as well as curator, producer and organizer with numerous intermedia productions, exhibitions, conferences, publications and event designs.

Ulrich Broeckling - Disziplin
Ulrich Bröckling, Dr. phil., Soziologe, Universität Konstanz, z.Zt. Wissenschaftlicher Koordinator des Graduiertenkollegs »Die Figur des Dritten«, Forschungsinteressen: Soziologie der Selbst- und Sozialtechnologien, Govuernementalitätsstudien, Militärsoziologie, Geschichte des Antimilitarismus

Hans-Christian Dany - Amphetamine
Hans-Christian Dany, geboren 1966. Künstler und Publizist. Studium der Freien Kunst an der HfbK in Hamburg. Seit 1989 zahlreiche Ausstellungen im In- und Ausland. Diverse Veröffentlichungen in internationalen Zeitschriften u.a. Vogue, frieze, springerin, Texte zur Kunst, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, sowie Katalogen und Anthologien. Eine Auswahl von Texten erschien in dem Band Auf dem Weg zu einem Umweg, Köln 2001. Seit 1995 internationale Vortragstätigkeit. Gründung und Konzeption von Unser Fernsehsender (UTV). Herausgabe des Buches dagegen dabei – Texte, Gespräche und Dokumente der Selbstorganisation seit 1969, Hamburg 1998. Gründer und Herausgeber der Zeitschrift Starship, Berlin. Kurator der Ausstellung Ökonomien der Zeit im Museum Ludwig in Köln. Lebt in Hamburg.

Katja Diefenbach - Police War
Writer, Berlin. Staff of b_books, Bookshop and Publishing House. Lecturer at University of Fine Arts and Humboldt University, Berlin. Writing on Post-Structuralism, Marxism, Deconstruction and current questions of new forms of a capitalist Empire, police

Avery Gordon - Desertion
Avery Gordon is the author of Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, Mapping Multiculturalism and other works. She is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and co-host of No Alibis, a weekly public affairs radio program. She is currently writing about captivity, war, and utopia. She divides her time between Paris and Santa Barbara.

Manuel Herz - Camp
Manuel Herz is an architect based in Cologne. He has executed a number of architectural projects in Germany and Israel, among them the Municipal Museum of Ashdod, with Eyal Weizman and Rafi Segal. Manuel has published internationally on issues regarding the relationship between Judaism and space, is a guest editor to an upcoming issue of StadtBauwelt, and currently working on the theme of the architecture of humanitarian relief. He is currently working on his PhD at Goldsmisths Center for Architectural Research, London.

Brian Holmes - Peace-for-War
Brian Holmes is an art critic, activist and translator, living in Paris, interested primarily in the intersections of artistic and political practice. He holds a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley, was the English editor of publications for Documenta X, Kassel, Germany, 1997, was a member of the graphic arts group 'Ne pas plier' from 1999 to 2001, and has recently worked with the French conceptual art group 'Bureau d'Études'.

Tom Keenan - Translation
Thomas Keenan teaches human rights, media, and literature at Bard College in New York. He wrote FABLES OF RESPONSIBILITY (Stanford 1997), and has edited books on museums and on Paul de Man, and recently the anthology NEW MEDIA, OLD MEDIA (Routledge 2006) with Wendy Chun. His current research focuses on the role of media in post-Cold War conflicts, from Somalia to Bosnia to Iraq and beyond.

Ivan Kucina - Liberation
Ivan Kucina is an architect, lecturer, member of the Stealth Group and a key initiator for much of the current research on uncontrolled processes within the Belgrade city structure. He was born in the city in 1961 and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade in 1988. He finalized his Masters thesis with research on the Phenomena of Transition in Modern Architecture, with Belgrade as an example of Modern Architecture between the two World Wars. Since 1997 he serves as a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture. He is currently building a family house on Avala mountain near Belgrade and is leading an effort to create software - Personal Housing Generator - based on the Belgrade urban experience during the last decade.

Naeem Mohaiemen - Prisoner of War
Naeem Mohaiemen is a filmmaker and tactical media artist. He is director of VISIBLE COLLECTIVE an artist collective that works on film-art interventions on migrant impulses, hyphenated identities and post 9/11 security panic. Project excerpts have shown widely as installations or lectures, including the 2006 Whitney Biennial (Wrong Gallery).

Ariane Müller - United Nations
*1968 Wien. Lebt in Berlin / Video, Installationen / Herausgeberin von Zeitschriften, darunter Artfan, Wien und Starship, Berlin / singt bei der Band "Zigaretten Rauchen", Organisation von Ausstellungen und Konferenzen

Marko Peljhan - Redundancy
Born 1969 in Sempeter pri Gorici(former Yugoslavia), lives in Los Angeles, Riga and Ljubljana. In 1995 he founded the technological branch of Projekt Atol PACT SYSTEMS and co-founded LJUDMILA. He is coordinator of the international INSULAR TECHNOLOGIES initiative and the Makrolab project as well as coordinator of flights for zero-gravity artistic projects in conjunction with the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Moscow and the MIR (Microgravity Interdisciplinary Research) consortium. He also invented and coordinated the production of a mobile media lab project, Transhub-01, which was first realized as MOBILATORIJ and now successfully operates. Since 2002 he also holds a professorship at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Stefan Römer - Camouflage
*1960 / Malerei, Performances, Fotoserien, Installationen, Publikationen, Kunsthistoriker / Herausgeber des Fanzines "Nervenpolaroid" / Schreibt für Kunstforum, Texte zur Kunst, Spex, Frieze, taz, Camera Austria, Springerin, Kritik, Konkret / Themen: Kunst, Informatik, Theorie; Künstlerische Strategien des Fake - Kritik von Original und Fälschung; Präsentationsweisen zeitgenössischer Kunst; Die neuen Werte von privater Öffentlichkeit und neuem Konsum als kapitalistischem Selbstzweck; Selbstorganisation an Kunsthochschulen. Seit 2003 Professor an der Kunstakademie in München

Georg Seeßlen - Pop
Georg Seeßlen ist 1948 geboren, hat in München Malerei, Kunstgeschichte und Semiologie studiert. Es schreibt nicht nur Kritiken und Aufsätze und Bücher, sondern dreht bei Gelegenheit auch Dokumentarfilme fürs Fernsehen. Georg Seeßlen sollte man korrekterweise weniger als Film- denn als Bilderkritiker bezeichnen - und noch dann würde man seiner Bandbreite nicht gerecht. Als gelernter Semiologe ist er - und in seinem Fall nicht nur selbst ernannter, sondern wirklicher - Experte für Zeichenverhältnisse schlechthin. Er hat über den pornografischen Film wie über televisionäre Dummheiten, über Rechtsextremismus und Christoph Schlingensief, Steven Spielberg und Klaus Kinski, Clint Eastwood und David Lynch geschrieben - und das meiste davon ist klüger als das ganze Restrauschen im Blätterwald. Geradezu unfassbar ist dabei seine Produktivität: Artikel in den verschiedensten Zeitungen und Zeitschriften (von epd film bis konkret, von der taz und Freitag bis zur Zeit; einen Kurzauftritt in den Anfangszeiten von Focus gab es übrigens auch), daneben mehr oder weniger jedes Jahr ein neues Buch: man kommt nicht nach. Seeßlen hat es geschafft, allgegenwärtig zu werden trotz oder vielleicht gerade durch Abwesenheit auf den Tummelplätzen der Kulturbetriebsprominenz. Er wohnt im Allgäu, lehrt gelegentlich an der Uni, ist aber kaum einmal im Fernsehen zu sehen. Von Hause aus zweifellos links, ohne Berührungsängste mit bürgerlichen Publikationsorganen (interessant freilich, dass er in der FAZ, zu der er vom intellektuellen Anspruch passen würde, nie geschrieben hat) einerseits, andererseits aber ohne Scheu vor der Veröffentlichung in Blättern, die der Mainstream links liegen lässt. (Ekkehard Knörer)

Erzen Shkololli - Transition
Born 1976, Pejë, Kosovë where he currently lives and works) artist, curator and co-founder of Contemporary Art Institute EXIT, Pejë; he is an internationally successful artist and important mediator of Kosovarian art.He has had solo exhibitions in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic (2005), and in Lucca, Italy (2001). He has taken part in numerous group shows, including “People Land State”(Israel 2006), “INTERRUPTED HISTORIES” (Ljubljana,2006),”Money and Value the Last Taboo”(Biel 2002), "In the Gorges of the Balkans" (Kassel, 2003), and "Blood & Honey/Future’s in the Balkans" (Vienna 2003),Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt am Main, 2002), Tirana (2003 and 2005), Seville (2004), Cetinje (2004).In 2001 he was awarded the Premio Michetti Prize of the Fondazion Michetti di Francavilla al Mare, Italy. Since 2003 he is a member of European Culture Parliament.

Nora Sternfeld - Defeat
Nora Sternfeld arbeitet als Kunstvermittlerin und Kuratorin. Sie ist Mitbegründerin und Teilhaberin des Büros trafo.K, das mit den inhaltlichen Schwerpunkten zeitgenössische Kunst und Zeitgeschichte an personalen und medialen Vermittlungsprojekten, Schulungen und Workshops in Museen, Ausstellungen und im öffentlichen Raum arbeitet. Derzeit ist sie Teil des KuratorInnenteams von Verborgene Geschichte/n - remapping mozart, ein Projekt von Wiener Mozartjahr 2006. Darüber hinaus ist sie im Kernteam des Netzwerks Schnittpunkt. Ausstellungstheorie und Praxis und im Redaktionsteam von Bildpunkt - Zeitschrift der IG Bildende Kunst. Sie ist Lehrbeauftragte an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien und publiziert zu zeitgenössischer Kunst, Vermittlung, Geschichtspolitik und Antirassismus. Mitherausgeberin der Sammelbände: »Wer spricht? Autorität und Autorschaft in Ausstellungen«, gem. mit Schnittpunkt, Beatrice Jaschke, Charlotte Martinz-Turek, Turia und Kant, Wien 2005. »In einer Wehrmachtsausstellung – Erfahrungen mit Geschichtsvermittlung«, gemeinsam mit trafo.K, Renate Höllwart, Charlotte Martinz-Turek, Alexander Pollak, Turia und Kant, Wien 2003.

Ingrid Strobl - Resistance
Ingrid Strobl, geboren in Innsbruck, lebt als freie Autorin in Köln. Veröffentlichungen u. a.: „Es macht die Seele kaputt.“ Junkiefrauen auf dem Strich, Berlin (Orlanda Verlag) 2006 Ende der Nacht, Roman, Berlin (Orlanda Verlag) 2005 Die Angst kam erst danach. Jüdische Frauen im Widerstand in Europa 1938 -1945, Frankfurt am Main (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag) 1998 Im Kampf gegen Besatzung und "Endlösung". Widerstand der Juden in Europa 1939 1945 (zusammen mit G. Heuberger und A. Lustiger), Frankfurt/Main 1995 Anna und das Anderle. Eine Recherche (Roman), Frankfurt/Main (S. Fischer Verlag) 1995 Sag nie du gehst den letzten Weg. Frauen im bewaffneten Widerstand gegen Faschismus und deutsche Besatzung, Frankfurt am Main (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag) 1989. Spanische Ausgabe: Partisanas. La Mujer en la resistencia armada contro el fascismo y la occupación alemana 1936 - 1945, Barcelona 1996

Klaus Viehmann - World War
Born 1954. Left school when he was 16. Went to Westberlin in 1972 (in order to avoid being drafted into the Bundeswehr), where he worked in a left wing bookshop. Member of the urban guerrilla group "Bewegung 2. Juni" since 1976, arrested in 1978. Spent 15 years in Prison. Since 1993 active in several leftist campaigns. Published on politics, history and posters of the militant left. Lives as typesetter and layouter in Berlin.

Eyal Weizman - Thanato politics
Eyal Weizman is an Architect based in London. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London and completed his PhD at the London Consortium, Birkbeck College. He is the director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Before this role, Weizman was Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Weizman has taught, lectured, curated and organised conferences in many institutions worldwide. His books include Hollow Land [Verso Books, 2007], A Civilian Occupation [Verso Books, 2003], the series Territories 1,2 and 3, Yellow Rhythms and many articles in journals, magazines and edited books. Weizman is a regular contributors to many journals and magazines and is an editor at large for Cabinet Magazine (New York). Weizman is the recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture Prize for 2006-2007.

Akram Zaatari - Mobilization
Akram Zaatari studied Architecture at the American University of Beirut and obtained his Masters degree in Media Studies at the New School University in New York in 1995. He worked as an executive producer for the daily morning show Aalam Al-Sabah at Future Television-Beirut, where he also produced most of his early video pieces. He has edited three books on photography that were published by the Arab Image Foundation: The Vehicle. Picturing moments of transition on a modernizing society, Portraits du Caire, and Mapping Sitting (with C. Bassil, Z. Maasri, and W. Raad). His work includes videos and video installations, including Gift (1995), A Family Portrait (1995), The Candidate (1996), All is Well on the Border[i/] (1997), Majnounak (Crazy of You, 1997), Baalbeck (2001), Her + Him Van Leo (2001), Monument #5. The Scandal (2001), and Mapping Sitting (2001, with Walid Raad). Akram Zaatari is a founding member of the Arab Image Foundation.

Program Munich

SATURDAY, July, 22nd

Exergue (Eyal Weizman)
Amphetamine (Hans-Christian Dany)
Camouflage (Stefan Römer)
Camp (Manuel Herz)
Declaration of War (andcompany&Co)
Defeat, for the (Nora Sternfeld)
Desertion (Avery Gordon)
Discipline (Ulrich Broeckling)
/join #beirut (Mansur Jacoubi )
Liberation (Ivan Kucina)

SONDAY, July, 23rd

Mobilization (Akram Zaatari)
National Anthem (Julieta Aranda)
Peace-for-War (Brian Holmes)
Police War (Katja Diefenbach)
Pop (Georg Seeßlen & Markus Metz)
Prisoner of War (Naeem Mohaiemen)
Redundancy (Marko Peljhan)
Resistance (Ingrid Strobl)
Theatres of Possession Operation Systems (Konrad Becker)
Transition (Erzen Shkololli)
Translation (Tom Keenan)
United Nations (Ariane Müller)
World War (Klaus Viehmann)

Manufacturing concepts

The second edition of DICTIONARY OF WAR July 22 and 23 in Muffathalle Munich

When talking about war nowadays the challenge seems rather to find the right words than choosing the right side. In order not to leave this task to politicians, the military or their subordinated PR and propaganda agencies, the project DICTIONARY OF WAR has been started off this June.

But the title should not be taken too literally: the project provides a collaborative platform for creating concepts. Loosley based on the slogan: “At least, when we create concepts, we are doing something” in total 100 concepts will be presented in four two-day events in Frankfurt, Munich, Graz and Berlin. The aim is to create key concepts that either play a significant role in current discussions of war, have so far been neglected, or have yet to be created.

Seven weeks after the first edition in Frankfurt the DICTIONARY OF WAR enters the second round on July 22 and 23 in Muffathalle Munich.

The Munich edition of DICTIONARY OF WAR features contributions by 25 scientists, artists, filmmakers, architects, theorists, and activists from twelve different countries:

Amsterdam based performance group andcompany&Co; the mexican artist Julieta Aranda; media theorist Konrad Becker from Vienna; sociologist Ulrich Bröckling from Freiburg; the californian artist and media theorist Jordan Crandall; artist Hans-Christian Dany from Hamburg; Berlin based writer Katja Diefenbach; sociologist and theorist Avery Gordon from Los Angeles; architect Manuel Herz from Cologne; Paris based art critic, translator and activist Brian Holmes; human rights expert Tom Keenan from New York; Belgrad based architect Ivan Kucina; filmmaker and media artist Naeem Mohaiemen from New York and Dhaka; artist Ariane Müller from Berlin; slovenian artist Marko Peljhan; Armin Petras, writer and theatre director from Berlin; Munich based photographer and writer Stefan Römer; artist Erzen Shkololli from Kosovo; the film critics and writers Georg Seeßlen and Markus Mertz; israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan from Paris; theorist Rob Stone from London; Vienna based curator Nora Sternfeld; journalist and writer Ingrid Strobl from Cologne; activist, typesetter and lay-outer Klaus Viehmann from Berlin; London based architect Eyal Weizman.

The concepts are introduced in alphabetical order by their concept persons in half-hour long presentations or performances.

The event starts on Saturday, July 22 at 2 pm in Muffathalle Munich, Zellstrasse 4, and will be continued on Sunday from noon on. The entrance fee for both days is 10 Euro and includes a CD-edition of the video-recordings of the Frankfurt session.

Video recordings of the first 25 concepts which were presented in Frankfurt on June 2 and 3, are available in both streaming media as well as dowload versions on the website at:
http://dictionaryofwar.org/en-dict/v2v

The third edition of the DICTIONARY OF WAR will take place on October 13 and 14, 2006, in Graz in the framework of the festival "Steirischer Herbst".

http://dictionaryofwar.org/en-dict//graz

DICTIONARY OF WAR is a project by Multitude e.V. and Unfriendly Takeover, in collaboration with Muffatwerk and runs parallel to their project "Crashtest Dummy". DICTIONARY OF WAR is supported by the Federal Culture Foundation, Germany.

Images from Munich Edition

Impressions from the Audience

Presentation of Manuel Herz

Presentation of Nora Sternfeld

Impressions from the Lounge

Material from Munich Edition

Flyer for Munich Edition
Poster for Munich Edition
Audio Jingle for Munich Edition
Video Jingle for Munich Edition (DV)

Credits of Munich Edition

The Munich edition of the DICTIONARY OF WAR have been produced in a collaboration of "Multitude e.V." and "unfriendly takeover". It has been funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and produced in close collaboration with Muffathalle.

Curators: Annett Busch, Sebastian Lütgert, Tom Lamberty, Florian Malzacher, Anke & Heike Schleper, Florian Schneider, Bernhard Schreiner

Organization: Franziska Frielinghaus, Susanne Lang, Philipp Otto

Moderation: Sebastian Lütgert

Stage Building: Susanne Lang, Knut-Sören Steinkopf and Muffathalle Technical Team

Technical Setup: Jan Gerber, Sebastian Lütgert, Florian Schneider

Video Production: Annett Busch, Jan Gerber, Iris de Hoog, Gerbrand Oudenaarden, Florian Schneider