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Marina Gržinić Mauhler, PhD

Year of Birth: 1958
Education: Doctorate
Research Title: Principal Research Associate
University Title: Professor

+386 1 470 64 80

marina.grzinic@zrc-sazu.si



Teaching Engagements

  • Postgraduate program Intercultural Studies - Comparative Studies of Ideas and Cultures, University of Nova Gorica and Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana.
  • University Professor for Conceptual Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
  • CCC, Haute école d'art et de design Genève, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten, Gent, Belgium.
  • Duke University, Durham, USA.

Membership

  • ISEA-Board
  • Art Margins Editorial Board

Fellowships and Awards

  • USIA, USA, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco (1988)
  • JSPS, Tokyo, postdoctoral at Institute for Imagining Technology, Japan (1997-98)
  • Apex ART curatorial, New York, USA (2001)
  • Duke University, Durham, USA

Study Abroad

  • Institute for Imagining Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Lectures (Selection 2018-2021)

  • How to blow the world of racial global necrocapitalism and provoke rebellion, power, thoughts: prispevek na konferenci The White West III: Automating apartheid, Kunsthalle Wien (Avstrija), 13. februar 2020.
  • Contemporary philosophy between necropolitics and thanatopolitics: prispevek na mednarodnem kolokviju Re-activating critical thinking in contemporary philosophy and theory, org. v okviru predmeta Sodobne teorije umetnosti in kulture ter estetika novih tehnologij na Podiplomski šoli ZRC SAZU, 15. januar 2021.
  • Performativity and theory: prispevek na Live Theory Workshop (LTW), School of Arts and Culture, Malmö University, Malmö (Švedska), 24.–26. oktober 2018.
  • From biopolitics to necropolitics: predavanje na otvoritvi Moderna Exhibition 2018 With the Future Behind Us, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (Švedska), 20. oktober 2018.
  • Images of violence, or the violence of neoliberal necrocapitalism: prispevek na Symopsion on Photography, Camera Austria, Gradec (Avstrija), 5. oktober 2018.
  • Decolonial, post-colonial, post-socialism: predavanje na Balkan Society for Theory and Practice Workshop v okviru panela What does it mean to speak of decoloniality in Eastern Europe?, Prizren (Kosovo), 20. julij 2018.
  • Društvene i umjetničke prakse suživota i nova kritička misao: predavanje v okviru razstave Unprofessional/Besposlen, org. Institut za savremenu umjetnost, Galerija Art, Podgorica (Črna gora), 7. junij 2018.
  • Reciting: residues, ruins, remainders: plenarno predavanje na konferenci In the Names of ... Re/In/Citing Politics Beyond Capital and Colony, Moravian Gallery, Brno (Češka republika), 26. maj 2018.
  • GRŽINIĆ, Marina, CROWLEY, David. Überschreitung und Übergang in den Künsten?: diskusijski prispevek na simpoziju Underground + Improvisation, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (Nemčija), 21. april 2018.
  • Decolonial and performative: prispevek na srečanju z nasl. To be archived v okviru projekta Living archives research project, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö (Švedska), 12. april 2018.
  • Memòria i història i l'acte de recordar: prispevek na seminarju La condició de contorn. Sobre l'arxiu i els seus límits, MACBA - Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Španija), 16. februar 2018.
  • GRŽINIĆ, Marina, PRISTOVŠEK, Jovita. Race and its far-reaching contemporary ontological and epistemological implications. In: ROSEN, Matt (ed.). Diseases of the head: essays on the horrors of speculative philosophy. Earth, Milky Way: Punctum books, cop. 2020. Str. 197-235. ISBN 978-1-953035-10-3, ISBN 978-1-953035-11-0.
  • A Marxist-feminist perspective: from former Yugoslavia to turbo-fascism to neoliberal postmodern fascist Europe. In: FAKIER, Khayaat (ed.), MULINARI, Diana (ed.), RÄTHZEL, Nora (ed.). Marxist-feminist theories and struggles today: essential writings on intersectionality, labour and ecofeminism. London: Zed Books Ltd, 2020. Str. 231-248. ISBN 978-1-78699-616-9, ISBN 978-1-78699-615-2, ISBN 978-1-78699-617-6, ISBN 978-1-78699-618-3, ISBN 978-1-78699-619-0.
  • What is the aesthetics of necropolitics?. In: LUSHETICH, Natasha (ed.). The aesthetics of necropolitics. London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield International, cop. 2018. Str. 17-36. Experiments/On the political. ISBN 978-1-78660-685-3, ISBN 1-78660-685-2.
  • Queer, politics, racism and resistance. In: BLAGOJEVIĆ, Jelisaveta (ed.), STOŠIĆ, Mirjana (ed.), FRIDMAN, Orli (ed.). #political. Belgrade: Faculty of Media and Communications, 2017. Str. 299-318. Collectanea. ISBN 978-86-87107-77-9.
  • How institutions think?: institutions do not think, they simply act!. In: OʼNEILL, Paul (ed.), STEEDS, Lucy (ed.), WILSON, Mick (ed.). How institutions think: between contemporary art and curatorial discourse. Feldmeilen: LUMA Foundation; Annandale-on-Hudson: Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Cambridge (Mass.); London: The MIT Press, 2017. Str. 145-155. ISBN 978-0-262-53432-1.
  • Racialized bodies and the digital (financial) mode of production. In: GRŽINIĆ, Marina (ed.), et al. Regimes of invisibility in contemporary art, theory and culture: image, racialization, history. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, cop. 2017. Str. 13-28. ISBN 978-3-319-55172-2, ISBN 978-3-319-55173-9. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55173-9_2.
  • What kind of memory does Europe construct? What kind of memory does Europe impose? = Millist mälu Euroopa konstrueerib? Millist mälu Euroopa peale surub?. In: TALI, Margaret (ed.), RANDER, Tanel (ed.). Archives and disobedience: changing tactics of visual culture in Eastern Europe = Arhiivid ja allumatus : visuaalkultuuri muutuvad taktikad Ida-Euroopas. Tallinn: Estonian Academy of Arts Press, 2016. Str. 92-108, 88-103, ilustr. ISBN 978-9949-467-87-7.
  • "Afterwards": struggling with bodies in the dump of history. In: JIMÉNEZ DEL VAL, Nasheli (ed.). Body between materiality and power: essays in visual studies. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. Str. 163-182. ISBN 978-1-4438-9533-0.
  • Political feminist positioning in neoliberal global capitalism. In: BEHAR, Katherine (ed.). Object-oriented feminism. Minneapolis; London: University of Minnesota Press, cop. 2016. Str. 201-223. ISBN 978-1-5179-0109-7.
Structure and Genealogy of Perversion in Contemporary Philosophy, Politics, and Art (temeljni_raziskovalni • 01. september 2020 - 31. august 2023)
The problem of objectivity and fiction in contemporary philosophy (01. july 2018 - 30. june 2021)
Europe as a Philosophical Idea and Political Subject (temeljni_raziskovalni • 01. may 2017 - 30. april 2020)
Aisthesis in philosophy, psychoanalysis and politics (aplikativni • 01. july 2011 - 30. june 2014)
Conditions and Problems of Contemporary Philosophy IV (research programme • 01. january 2020 - 31. december 2025)
Conditions and Problems of Contemporary Philosophy III (research programme • 01. january 2015 - 31. december 2019)
Conditions and Problems of Contemporary Philosophy II (research programme • 01. january 2009 - 31. december 2014)