Invitation to the Defense of Inka Dorothea Meißner
The Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Inka Dorothea Meißner’s dissertation project Künstlerische Narration von manifester Gewalt unter den strukturellen Bedingungen des globalisierten und finanzialisierten Kapitalismus (Artistic narration of manifest violence under the structural conditions of globalized and financialized capitalism).
The Examination Panel is made up of: Carolin Bohlmann (chair), Diedrich Diederichsen (supervisor), and Moritz Baßler (external appraiser, University of Münster).
Abstract
The rise of neoliberal governments and their economic policy programs in the United States and the United Kingdom around 1979 marks a historically exemplary point in time when the form of political economy and thus its regime of visibility and invisibility underwent fundamental changes. In such threshold situations, new critical narratives emerge in the negotiation of existing and newly emerging forms of knowledge, which often initially conflict with one another.
Using the figure of the psychopath and by studying several exhibitions, artistic, journalistic, literary and art-critical texts, as well as a television series, the work examines the transformation of the individual serial killer as a perpetrator profile of post-cybernetic investigative methods into a figure with whom the structural violence of capitalism could be made visible and describable in the context of artistic narration. If we follow this figure of the psychopath, which is thus also a functional knowledge that encompasses instrumental competencies for analysis as well as knowledge of the contents, across national and discursive borders, a route emerges that connects the centers of financial accumulation with the places of primary accumulation in globalized neoliberalism.
Short biography
Inka Meißner (1980, Erlangen) is an artist and writer who lives and works in Berlin. From 2003 to 2010 she studied fine arts and artistic photography at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. From 2013 to 2016 she completed a master's degree in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Inka Meißner works at Lars Friedrich Gallery in Berlin and has been teaching experimental writing at the University of Art and Design Linz and the Academy of Fine Arts Munich since 2021. In 2024, together with Michael Franz, she published the artist book WHAT TIME IS LOVE at New Toni Press.
The thesis defense will be held in German and at the Academy at Schillerplatz in room M20.
We are looking forward to welcoming you.