Univ.-Ass. Alexi Kukuljevic, PhD
alexi.kukuljevic@uni-ak.ac.at
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Alexi Kukuljevic is an artist and a philosopher based in Vienna. He completed his Phd in Philosophy at Villanova University, Pennsylvania in 2009. From 2011-2012 he was a researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academy (Maastricht).
He is the author of Liquidation World: On the Art of Living Absently, MIT Press, 2017: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/liquidation-world.
His interests touch on the intersections between the critique metaphysics, the legacies of avant-garde artistic practice, the crisis of modern subjectivity, and radical politics. He has recently publishing essays in Problemi International (https://problemi.si), S: Journal of the Issue for Lacanian Ideological Critique (http://www.lineofbeauty.org/index.php/S) and Crisis and Critique (http://crisiscritique.org). He is currently completing a book on the horror of comedy entitled Like Hell It Is: Horror and Hilarity.
Alongside his work in philosophy, Kukuljevic’s artistic work has been exhibited at Palais de Tokyo Paris, the ICA in Philadelphia, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ljubljana. His most recent exhibitions include Birdwar at aplus Berlin and All aleak.
Since 2015 Kukuljevic has been a lecturer, and since 2018 a University Assistant in the Department for Art Theory at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Publications (Selection)
- “This Beast is Complex: Imposture and Plato’s Sophist,” Problemi International No. 3, 2019 ed. Simon Hajdini, 249-273.
- ‘“the tip of a bare foot”: On Art’s Not Wholeness” in Rancière und die Literatur, ed. Erik Vogt, Wien: Turia + Kant, 2019
- “Richard Pryor, The Conedian” in The Object of Comedy, ed. Jamila Mascat and Gregor Moder, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
- “Extincture” in The Ghost of Transparency: An Architechtonic of Communication, ed., Vera Bühlmann, Michael C. Doyle, and Selena Savic. Birkhäuser/De Gruyter, 2019
- “Why a Hitchcock Drinks its Coffee Black,” S: Journal of the Issue for Lacanian Ideological Critique, #10, Lost Cause, 2018
- “Das Subject am Platz seiner eigenen Abwesenheit: Über das Ethos des Bildhauers,“ Springerin, Krise als Form, #2, Spring 2017
- “It’s OK to Limp” in the quiescence of the inorganic world: Justin Matherly (Germany: Galerie Eva Presenhuber AG, 2017), 64-69.
- “A Few Motifs Concerning the Hard Nut of the Artist Kukuljevic’s Practice,” thevolta.org Expanded Poetics Feature, Issue 62, March 2016 http://www. thevolta.org/ewc62-akukuljevic-p1.html
- “An Object that Speaks,” Spike Magazine, Art Quarterly #48 Summer 2016, 50-55.
- “The Happy Melancholic” in “Politics and Melancholia,” Special Issue of Crisis and Critique, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2016