From minorcompositions at gmail.com Tue Jun 9 11:09:55 2026 From: minorcompositions at gmail.com (Minor Compositions) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 12:09:55 +0100 Subject: [Minorcompositions] Two Upcoming Events: Elements of the Revolution Open Peer Review / Enduring Otherwise Message-ID: <119f257d-9eb4-4451-b27e-31d549d74391@gmail.com> Hellos... Here's information on two upcoming events this month. In collaboration with COVER, the commons research centre Elements of the Revolution: The International Constructivists and the Prehistory of Artistic Research Tobias Dias, Aarhus University Wednesday 17th June @ 12PM UK Time, Online This seminar takes the form of an open peer review and discussion of a forthcoming book to be published, /Elements of the Revolution: The International Constructivists and the Prehistory of Artistic Research/, which offers a critical history of the ?research program? and political epistemology that emerged in the largely forgotten milieu of the International Constructivists in the early 1920s. It provides a novel narrative and theoretical elaboration of this transnational milieu, which included artists such as Hans Richter, Raoul Hausmann, El Lissitzky, and L?szl? Moholy-Nagy. It traces the dialectics of deskilling and reskilling that underpinned their artistic practice, thinking, and subjectivity by considering their engagement with technoscientific and epistemic issues of the interwar period. Examining the artist?s attention to what they called ?elements of the world,? such as rhythm, light, movement, and gesture, whether manifested in geometric lines and spirals on the pictorial surface, photographic abstractions, or the living images of cinema, the book tracks and conceptualizes how such an elementarism functioned as a revolutionary grammar in the ?European civil war? from the late 1910s to the late 1930s. This elementarism, the book suggests, could be understood as a critique of dialectical materialism and other prominent scientific strands of the socialist and communist movement, and thus essentially as a ?self-critique of the revolution? in the sense of an ambiguous and contradictory examination of what a revolutionary process would entail. Based on archival research and detailed historical and theoretical analysis, the book thus unearths a revolutionary form of artistic research that both sheds new critical light on key figures of the ?historical avant-gardes? as well as on contemporary discussions on ?artistic research? and ?knowledge production.? *Bio:* Tobias Dias is a writer, critic, editor, and educator based in Aarhus, Denmark. His research concerns the history and theory of the avant-gardes and contemporary art, the history and theory of aesthetics, and the politics of knowledge in the 20th and 21st centuries. He is currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University and as a Lecturer at Jutland Art Academy. His work has been published in journals and magazines such as /e-flux/, /Art-Agenda/, /Texte zur Kunst/, /Periskop/, /ARKEN Bulletin/, /Passepartout/, and /kritische berichte/. He has written the afterword to the first Danish translation of Theodor W. Adorno?s /?sthetische Theorie/. He?s the editor and co-author of /En anden ?kologi: Anticapitalistisk h?ndbog/ (A Different Ecology: Anticapitalist Handbook). If you would like to receive a copy of the draft manuscript to read before the event email saying so. ??? *Enduring Otherwise: Muslim Queer and Trans Worldmaking* 29/6 @ 7PM UK Time, Online Ferdiansyah Thajib For this event, we are joined by Ferdiansyah Thajib to discuss his new book /Enduring Otherwise: Muslim Queer and Trans Worldmaking in Indonesia/. Drawing on ethnographic research across Indonesia, the book explores how queer and trans Muslims navigate the complex intersections of faith, desire, gender, and sexuality in a social context where these identities are often cast as fundamentally incompatible. Rather than focusing solely on narratives of exclusion or resistance, Thajib examines the everyday practices through which people endure, improvise, and create livable worlds amidst conditions of marginalization. Some distance themselves from religious institutions, others seek to transform them from within, while many continue to inhabit the tensions and ambivalences between faith and identity. Through these experiences, the book offers a rich account of how queer and trans Muslim subjectivities are forged through hope, exhaustion, piety, failure, and collective worldmaking. Join us for a discussion of religion, sexuality, affect, endurance, and the possibilities of creating forms of life that exceed the limits imposed by dominant social norms. Event will be recorded for an episode of the Minor Compositions podcast. -- Minor Compositions. Publishing the unruly, the radical, and the yet-co-come. https://www.minorcompositions.info Linktree of all our stuff:https://linktr.ee/minorcompositions -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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