Univ.-Prof. Marina Vishmidt, PhD
marina.vishmidt@uni-ak.ac.at
+43-(0)1-711 33-6500
EDUCATION
2008-2013 PhD Critical Management and Political Economy, Queen Mary, University of London, supervised by Prof. Peter Fleming
2003-2004 MA Modern European Philosophy, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, London, supervised by Dr. Ray Brassier
1994-1998 BA Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, New York
1996-1997 Read Ethical and Moral Philosophy, Continental Philosophy and Critical Theory, Wadham College, University of Oxford
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS
Fellow, Leuphana Institute of Advanced Studies in Culture and Society, Lüneburg, 2024/25
Rudolph Arnheim Guest Professorship in Art History, Humboldt University, Berlin, April-September 2022
Visiting Professorship, Department of Critical and Cultural Theory, Södertörn University, Stockholm, September 2020
Research Fellow with the ‘Social Reproduction: Looking for Jeanne’ (2019 – 2022) project, funded by the Swedish Research Council
MeCCSA Climate Change Network Grant, for ‘End-of-World Trade’ conference, June 2019
Digital Worldmaking Fund, Goldsmiths, grant for ‘End-of-World Trade’ conference, June 2019
ACADEMIC
Programme Director and Lecturer
MA Culture Industry, Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London (2016–2023)
Theory Seminar Leader
MA Art Praxis, Dutch Art Institute, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem (2014-2018)
PhD Supervision
University of Applied Arts Vienna (2023 – present)
Goldsmiths (2016 – present)
Royal College of Art (2019 – 2020)
CONSULTANCY and CURATORIAL
ArtsHub, Copenhagen (2024-25)
Co Editor
Art and Work publication series, PARSE (Platform for Artistic Research Sweden), Valand Academy, Gothenburg (2018 – 2019)
JURIES and REVIEW
Riksbanken Jubileumsfond, Sweden (2020)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS, BOARDS
2018 – Present
Manuscript Reviewer, Theory, Culture & Society, Polish Journal of Aesthetics, Critical Times
Boards: Critical Theory and the Critique of Society series (Bloomsbury Academic); South as a State of Mind journal; Conditions artist studio programme (London)
Organising committee: Marxism in Culture seminar series
PUBLICATIONS
AUTHORED BOOKS
Speculation as a Mode of Production, Brill, Leiden, 2018; paperback Haymarket, Chicago, 2019
Reproducing Autonomy: Work, Money, Crisis and Contemporary Art, co-author Kerstin Stakemeier, Mute, London and Berlin, 2016
EDITED BOOKS
2018 – present
Speculation, Documents of Contemporary Art series, Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press, London and Cambridge, MA
2023
‘Nothing to See Here: On the Bracketing of the Spectator in a Hyperrelational Exhibition’, documenta 15 dossier, Grey Room 92, 117-23
2022
‘Between Equal Rights: Class and Other Struggles in the Image Field’, Oxford Art Journal, 45:2, 307-23
‘”Only as Self-Relating Negativity”: Infrastructure and Critique’, Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts: Special Issue On Criticism: Is there a place (still) for criticism? 13:3, 13-24
2021
‘Art and Class Struggle’ roundtable, ARTMargins 10:3, 118-21
2020
‘Bodies in Space’, Radical Philosophy 208 (Autumn 2020), 33-46
2019
‘Mediation‘, Kunst und Politik, Jahrbuch der Guernica-Gesellschaft: Schwerpunkt – Keywords for Marxist Art History Today, Larne Abse Gogarty and Andrew Hemingway, eds., 21, 87-96
‘Arte, tecnologia e repetição’, Porto Arte Revista de Artes Visuais, 24:40, 1-27
‘The Hard Labour of Speculation: Shaping a Reflection on Methods’, MaHKUscript. Journal of Fine Art Research, 3:1
‘Anti-Fascist Art Theory’ roundtable, Third Text 158, 33:3, 1-17
2018
‘Anomaly and Autonomy: On the Currency of the Exception in the Value Relations of Contemporary Art’, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 81:4, 588-600
‘Realism Today?’ roundtable, ARTMargins 7:1, 58-82
JOURNALS – REVIEWS
2022
Review of Sophie Cras, Artist as Economist: Art and Capitalism in the 1960s, caa.reviews, March 11
2020
‘Sedimented Forms: Coming Back to Autonomy’, CLCWeb: Contemporary Literature and Culture, 22:3
BOOK CHAPTERS
2023
‘Corporeal and abstract: Is there a “left biopolitics“ of bodies?‘, The Body Productive: Rethinking Capitalism, Work and the Body, Steffan Blayney, Joey Hornsby and Savannah Whaley, eds., Bloomsbury Academic, London
2022
‘“A Self-Relating Negativity“: Where Infrastructure and Critique Meet‘, Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetics, and Critique, Martin Beck, Beatrice von Bismarck, Sabeth Buchmann and Ilse Lafer, eds., Spector Books, Leipzig
‘Introduction: Unionism, Diversity of Tactics, Ceaseless Struggle: Dispatches from Cultural Workers’ an ‘Lexicon Entry: Autonomy and Heteronomy, Speculative Subjectivity’, Paths to Autonomy, Noah Brehmer and Vaida Stepanovaite, eds., Lost Property Press, Vilnius and Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, Colchester/New York/Port Watson
‘Deep Learning Infrastructural Critique’, with Ilan Manouch, Between the Material and the Possible: Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art, Bassam El Baroni, ed., Sternberg Press and Edith-Russ-Hauss, London and Oldenburg
2021
‘Die Möglichkeit einer spekulativen Produktionsweise‘, Das ?sthetisch-Spekulative, Kathrin Busch, Georg Dickmann, Maja Figge, Felix Laubscher, eds., Wilhelm Fink and Brill, Leiden
‘Money’, glossary entry, Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism, Mark Stevens, ed., Bloomsbury, London
‘Documentary – Disjunction: A Conversation Between Raphaël Cuomo, Maria Iorio, Wendelien van Oldenborgh and Marina Vishmidt about the Films The Interpreter and No False Echoes’, Mira Fliescher, Fabian Goppelsröder and Dieter Mersch, eds., Sichtbarkeiten 4: Praktiken visuellen Denkens, Diaphanes, Zürich
2020
‘New Ruins’, beyond repair, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Ernest Ah, eds., Archive Books, Berlin
‘Social Reproduction: New Questions for the Gender, Affect and Substance of Value’, with Zöe Sutherland, The New Feminist Literary Studies, Jennifer Cooke, ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
‘A Conversation: Melanie Gilligan and Marina Vishmidt’, Not Working Reader, Maurin Dietrich and Gloria Hasnay, eds., Kunstverein München and Archive Books, Munich and Berlin
‘The Opposite of Machine Intelligence’, Risquons-Tout: Contemporary Artists Venture Into Risk, Unpredictability and Transgression, Dirk Snauwert, ed., WIELS/Mercatorfonds, Brussels
‘Relatable Alienation: The Logic and History of an Idea’, What the Fire Sees: A Divided Reader, Eleanor Weber and Camilla Wills, eds., Divided Publishing, Brussels
‘Accumulating Futures’, Futurity Report, Eric C.H. de Bruyn and Sven Lütticken, Sternberg Press, Berlin
‘Arte Futile: The Gift That is No-one’s to Give and Which No-one Wants to Receive’, with Anthony Iles, The Trouble with Value: Art and its Modes of Valuation, Kris Dittel, ed., Onomatopee, Eindhoven
2019
‘Speculation in a Sense: Aesthetics and Real Abstraction’, In the Mind, but Not from There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art, Gean Moreno, ed., Verso, London and New York
‘Female Entropy: Social Reproduction as Problem and Medium’, Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event? Sophia Yadong Hao, ed., Sternberg Press, Berlin
2018
‘Art, Technology, and Repetition’, Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Beverley Best, Werner Bonefeld, Chris O’Kane, Neil Larsen, eds., SAGE, Thousand Oaks, CA
GENERAL PUBLICATIONS
2022
‘Why Must You Reduce Everything to Money’, autoreduction, Dora Budor, ed., Mousse Publishing – Progetto — Oaza Books, Milan – Lecce – Zagreb
‘Basement Jazz: Dora Budor’, Mousse 81, Fall 2022
Library column: Let’s Take Back Our Space, Camera Austria 159
‘Breathing and Breaking: Georgia Sagri’s IASI’, Afterall Online, October
‘Security Theater: On Pilvi Takala’s Close Watch’, Camera Austria 158
2021
‘Cuerpos en el espacio: En los extremos de la vulnerabilidad‘, Concreta: Sobre creacion y teoria de le imagen, issue 17
‘Post-Reality Markets and Structured Financial Time Products’, Making & Breaking, issue 2
2020
‘Spaces of Speculation: Movement Politics in the Infrastructure – An Interview with Marina Vishmidt’, with Andreas Petrossiants, historical materialism blog, November 14
Response, Nicholas Brown, Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art Under Capitalism, Nonsite journal, ‘The Tank’, September 10
‘On Cameron Rowland’, Artforum, April, 58:8
‘Preview: Cameron Rowland at the ICA, London’, Artforum, January, 58:5
2019
‘Books: Best of 2019 – Anne Boyer, The Undying’, Artforum, December
2018
‘How Art Works in the Speculative Mode of Production’, WORK MARATHON publication, Claude Adjil, Catarina Avaneo, Kostas Sasionopoulos, eds., Serpentine Gallery, London
‘Difference and the Universal in Legacies of Feminism’, with Zöe Sutherland, Extra States: Nations-in-Liquidation, Extra City Cahier #4, e-flux and Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp
‘Foreword: Unlearning to Unlearn’, with Kerstin Stakemeier, Unlearning Exercises: Art Organizations as Sites of Unlearning, Binna Choi, Annette Krauss and Yolande van der Heide, eds., Casco Art Instituteand Valiz, Utrecht and Amsterdam
‘”The unwillingness of shorter technicians to sample in deeper water”: Crashing Around in the Milieu’, text as part of MILIEU exhibition, Krobath Gallery, Vienna, 14.9 -13.10
‘Pure Maintenance’, South as a State of Mind, 10, Summer/Fall
‘Resilience, or . . .’, commissioned by Let’s Get Together and Call Ourselves an Institute, Chapter Thirteen
PRESENTATIONS, PAPERS, DISCUSSIONS
KEYNOTES
‘Institutional Mediation in the Age of Redundancy, or, The ‘Beyond Repair Manual’, BxNU Symposium: Reorganising Cultural Institutions, BALTIC and Northumbria University, Baltic 39, Newcastle, 29 June
2019
GENERAL
2024
Respondent, book launch Immanent Externalities: The Reproduction of Life in Capital by Rebecca Carson, Marx and Philosophy Society workshop, 11 February
Respondent, book launch Towards a Transindividual Self by Ana Vujanovic and Bojana Cvejic, Archive Books, Berlin, 12 January
2023
Presentation, Organisation as a Medium of Contemporary Art, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, 13 November
In conversation with Sven Lütticken, launch of Objections: Forms of Abstraction vol. 1, ProQM, Berlin, 10 November
‘De-production’, with Kerstin Stakemeier, Master-Symposium: Hope and Labour: Artists Working (for) Future, Zürich University of the Arts, 27 October
Presentation, Conditions X ICA, London, 25 July
‘Unexpected Spaces of Learning’, with Annette Krauss and Emily Pethick, THE EDUCATIONAL WEB, Symposium, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 1 July
Presentation, PART-TIME COMMITMENT Working Group #2: Infrastructures, Liberal Discomfort, Disruption, Lothringer 13 Halle, München, 10 June
‘Writing & Art: TECHNE conflux #3’, University of the Arts London/London College of Communication, 12 May
Speculation reader presentation, with PiRaMMMida and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Whitechapel Gallery, London 4 May
Presentation, Assistances (Working Title), Kunstraum Leuphana, Lüneburg, 15 April
Discussant, ‘Images of Class: Capturing a Protean Subject’, presentation of Images of Class: Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962-1988), Jacopo Galimberti (Verso, 2022) and discussion, The Courtauld, London, 24 February
2022
‘Entropy and Atrophy: Non-Identity in Non-Essential Infrastructure’, IZK | Institute for Contemporary Art, Technische Universität, Graz, 6 December
‘Presentation of Chapter on Art’, SAGE Handbook of Marxism Book Panel, 19th Annual Historical Materialism Conference, London, 10-13 November
‘Conflict of Disinterests: On Models of Accumulation and Their Exceptionalisms’, 19th Annual Historical Materialism Conference, London, 10-13 November
‘Policy and/or Praxis: Some Episodes from the Organising Continuum’, 19th Annual Historical Materialism Conference, London, 10-13 November
In conversation with Anja Kirschner, UNICA, Fluentum, Berlin, 16 July
‘Abstraction and Abjection’, round table on The Digitally Disposed (Seb Franklin), diffrakt, Berlin, 7 July
‘From Speculation to Infrastructure: Material and Method in the Politics of Contemporary Art’, Arnheim Public Lecture, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, 4 July
‘Loading Terminal’ w/ Danny Hayward, Annenstrasse 53, Graz, 24 May
‘Critical Infrastructure, Infrastructures of Critique’, Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetics, and Critique conference, Akademie der bildenden Künst, Vienna, 21 May
‘Natural Capital’, Abstraction and Economy lecture series, University of the Applied Arts, Vienna, 30 March
2021
Participant, Totality Inside Out plenary roundtable, Marxist Literary Group-Institute for Culture and Society, 2021, 18 June
2020
IAS Talk Pieces: Concepts for the ‚New Normal‘. #1 Speculation, Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London
‘High Culture/Low Wages’, panel at Paths to Autonomy series, Luna6 Social Centre, 1 Dec
Panel discussion, ‘Pandemic as Financial Crisis’, 12th Critical Finance Studies Conference, 27 August
‘Producing the Vulnerable Body in a Biopolitical Crisis’, Art Criticism and the Pandemic series, Art Monthly and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 10 July
‘Speculative Loops: Speculation as a Mode – of Production, of Accumulation, and Time Navigation’, CRISIS! series, 1856, Melbourne, 4 July
Interview with Andreas Petrossiants, e-flux podcasts, 18 June
‘Speculative Finance Speculative Fiction’, panel at Red May, Seattle, 17 May
Book presentation, Yale Union, Portland, OR, 18 April
Journal issue presentation, contributor, Kunst und Politik, Jahrbuch der Guernica-Gesellschaft: Schwerpunkt – Keywords for Marxist Art History Today, Marxism in Culture Seminar, Institute of Advanced Studies, 6 March
Respondent, Dave Beech, Art and Postcapitalism, Chelsea College of Art, 27 February
Book presentation, Speculation as a Mode of Production, Astrid Noack Atelier, Copenhagen, 18 February
Book presentation, Speculation as a Mode of Production, with Dave Beech and Anthony Iles, Marxism in Culture Seminar, Institute of Advanced Studies, 14 February
‘The Redistribution of Time: Responsibility and Negation Midst the Plethora’, Art Dept Public Programme, Goldsmiths, 10 February
2019
‘Speculation as a Mode of Production: Of Art, of Value, of Subjects and of Reasons’, Kunsthistorisches Seminar, Kunstmuseum Basel, 11 December
‘Between Equal Rights, Seeing Decides? Class and Other Struggles in the Image Field’, Visualising Class: Class and the Visual Arts Today, University of Manchester, 15 November
‘Between Speculation and Social Reproduction: The Art Worker and Their Problems’, Historical Materialism 16th Annual Conference, London, 9 November
Respondent, Book Presentation, Ashok Kumar, Monopsony Capitalism: Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age, Historical Materialism 16th Annual Conference, London, 9 November
Presentation, Looking for Jeanne – Rethinking Women’s Organising and Resistance with and through Art, Cinema Capitol and Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, 1 November
‘Art as Counter-Hegemony’ panel, Forms of Freedom: Rojava Film Commune, Galerija Nova, Zagreb, 25 October
In conversation with Ima-Abasi Okon, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 20 August
’Juddering Reflexes: Stories of Ruined Part-Objects’, Beyond Repair programme, German Pavilion, 58th Venice, Biennale, 25 June
’To Art in Work, and Conversely: Reconsidering a Fast-Moving Situation’, launch of WORK issue, PARSE Journal, Skogen and Valand Academy, Gothenburg, 7 and 8 May
2018
Roundtable, ‘The Productive Body in the 21st Century’, The Body Productive: a one-day conference about capitalism, work and the body, Birkbeck, University of London, 8 December
Respondent, book launch, Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization, Max Haiven, Goldsmiths, University of London, 6 December
In discussion with Kim Ku-Lim, Traversing the Turbulent Time, Goldsmiths, University of London, 13 November
‘Some Paradoxes of Abolition’, Book Presentation, What is to Be Done Under Real Subsumption? Historical Materialism 15th Annual Conference, London, 11 November
Book Presentation, Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital’, Historical Materialism 15th Annual Conference, London, 10 November
‘Between Not-Everything and Not-Nothing: Some Current Metabolisms of Negativity’, Historical Materialism 15th Annual Conference, London, 9 November
Lecture and Performance, What is to Be Done Under Real Subsumption?, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, 18 October, 20 October
‘Relatable Alienation: The Logic and History of an Idea’, Antarctica. A Symposium on Alienation, Kunsthalle Wien, 6 October
Presentation, PARSE Dialogue: The Politics of Work in Art, Marx Memorial Library, London, 30 May
Lecture, The White West: The Resurgence of Fascism as a Cultural Force, La Colonie, Paris, 9 May
Presentation, with Mira Mattar, That Language Matters: Example, Testimony, Performance symposium, Royal College of Art, London, 20 February
‘Reproductive Realism: Around a Critical Aesthetics of Gendered Labour’, Histórias Feministas seminar, Museu de Arte São Paolo, 2 February
‘Figure Eight is Half of 4: The Augmentation, the Automation and the Abolition of Labour’, After Work: Life, Labour and Automation symposium, University of West London, 27 January
Lecture and seminar, ‘Self-dissolution to the left of me, self-dissolution to the right: a political glossary of self- overcomings’, with Danny Hayward, Klassensprachen, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westphalen, Düsseldorf, 20 January
ORGANISATION and PROGRAMMING
2022
Film programme, Georgia Sagri: Case_L, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 10 June – 31 July
2019
‘End-of-the-World Trade: On the Speculative Economies of Art and Extraction’, with Louis Moreno, Goldsmiths, University of London, 21-22 June
2018
Amy De’ Ath, Sean O’Brien, Luke Roberts, Samuel Solomon, ‘Material and Social Poetics’, Marxism in Culture, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 23 November
Barbara Mahlknecht, ‘Reproduction, Care and Curating: A Viewpoint from the Archive’, Marxism in Culture, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 9 November
Alenka Zupancic, ‘Love thy neighbour as you love thyself!?’, Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought, Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 November
Sex, Poetry and Nothing: Abolition Salon, Dutch Art Institute and Schunck, Heerlen, 18 February
