Wednesday, 6 April 2016, 06–08 pm

Is too much art being produced, and from which perspective would it be regarded as too much? How does an artwork attain value, is it an exchange or utility value? What forms of value exist in the traditions of object-based art, and with what kinds of forms should we reckon with in the future?

In the 1980s, Diedrich Diederichsen was editor and publisher of music magazines, in the 1990s he taught as visiting professor or lecturer at universities in Frankfurt, Stuttgart; Pasadena, Offenbach, Gießen, Weimar, Bremen, Vienna, St. Louis, Cologne, Los Angeles, and Gainesville, among others. From 1998 – 2007 Professor of Aesthetic Theory / Cultural Studies at the Merz-Akademie, Stuttgart, since 2006 Professor of Theory, Practice and Communication of Contemporary Arts at the Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Recent book publications: Über Pop-Musik, Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2014; The Whole Earth – California and the Disappearance of the Outside (co-edited with Anselm Franke), Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2013; The Sopranos, Zurich: diaphanes-booklet, 2012; Psicodelia y ready-made, Buenos Aires: Edición Adriana Hidalgo, 2010; Utopia of Sound (co-edited with Constanze Ruhm), Vienna: Schleebrügge/Academy of Fine Arts, 2010; Stein, Schere, Papier (co-edited with Peter Pakesch), Graz: Kunsthaus Graz, 2009; Über den Mehrwert (in der Kunst), Amsterdam/New York/Berlin: Witte de With/Lukas & Sternberg, 2008; Kritik des Auges – Texte zur Kunst, Hamburg: Philo Fine Arts, 2008; Eigenblutdoping – Selbstverwertung, Künstlerromantik, Partizipation, Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2008. Regularly contributes to Tageszeitung, SZ, theater heute, Texte zur Kunst, among others.
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