Marina Vishmidt

Marina Vishmidt
Vishmidt in 2016
Born(1976-05-06)May 6, 1976
Kharkiv, Soviet Union
DiedApril 26, 2024(2024-04-26) (aged 47)
Vienna, Austria
OccupationProfessor of Art Theory
SpouseDanny Hayward
Academic background
Alma materQueen Mary University of London
ThesisSpeculation as a Mode of Production in Art and Capital (2012)
Doctoral advisorPeter Fleming
Stefano Harney
Academic work
DisciplinePhilosophy, Art Theory
InstitutionsUniversität für angewandte Kunst Wien

Marina Vishmidt (May 6, 1976 – April 26, 2024) was an American writer, editor and critic.[1] She lectured at the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London in the MA program Culture Industry, and taught Art Theory in the MA Art Praxis at the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem. Her research mainly concerned the relationship between art, value and labour.[2] She further explored this through works on debt, social reproduction and artistic entrepreneurialism.[3] In 2013, she completed her PhD entitled Speculation as a Mode of Production in Art and Capital at the Queen Mary University of London.[4] In the Summer Semester, 2022, Vishmidt was the Arnheim Visiting Professor at the Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In October 2023 she started a new position as Professor for Art Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.[5] Vishmidt died on April 26, 2024 after a long illness.[6]

Writing

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Vishmidt has written and edited several publications including Reproducing Autonomy: Work, Money, Crisis and Contemporary Art (2016) together with Kerstin Stakemeier[7] and Media Mutandis (2006) edited jointly with Mary Anne Francis, Jo Walsh and Lewis Sykes.[8] Her 2018 monograph Speculation as a Mode of Production[9] was praised for bringing "the full weight of critical theory – with its characteristic ambition of intellectual scope – ... to bear on art and politics in the age of financialisation".[10]

Vishmidt contributed to various publications, such as Undoing Property? (Sternberg Press, 2013), Mobile Cinema (Archive Books, 2017), On Performance (Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2012), the Exhibition catalogue for Grace Schwindt's exhibition Run a Home, Build a Town, Lead a Revolution. An Exhibition in Three Acts (1362), at MARCO - Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo,[11] and The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON (2010) [12] and Unlearning Exercises: Art Organizations as Sites for Unlearning (2018)[13] both published by Casco, Utrecht. She authored several chapters in the Routledge Companion to Art and Politics which discusses the complex relationship between art and politics and was published in 2015.

She was also a frequent contributor to various journals, including Afterall,[14] E-flux,[15] Mute Magazine,[16] and Texte zur Kunst.[17]

In her teens and early twenties, Vishmidt was active in the US zine subculture, using the penname "Miss Mary Mack."[18][19]

Collaborations

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Vishmidt frequently collaborated with various artists and activists. In 2010, she contributed texts to the 4th instalment of the project Lying Freely by artist Ruth Buchanan which took the form of a book.[20]

She was also part of a longterm research group of artists, writers, architects and musicians who worked together on the historical and contemporary presentation, documentation and reception of Victory over the Sun a Russian Futurist opera that premiered in 1913 in Saint Petersburg. The collective research efforts have been gathered in the publication Anfang Gut, Alles Gut - Actualizations of the Futurist Opera Victory Over the Sun 1913.[21]

Vishmidt was part of the working group of Cinenova a London-based feminist film and video distributor.[22] She also collaborated with the Full Unemployment Cinema, a collective which screened films in independent, self-organised venues around London.[23] The films focus mostly on themes of work, non-work, refusal and struggle.

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References

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  1. ^ "Scattering as Behaviour Toward Risk". 49 nord 6 est Frac Lorraine. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  2. ^ "FORMER WEST – Marina Vishmidt". www.formerwest.org. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  3. ^ "Marina Vishmidt". BAK. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  4. ^ Vishmidt, Marina (2018). Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital. Leiden: Brill.
  5. ^ "Marina Vishmidt, head of the dept. Art Theory". Retrieved 1 June 2024.
  6. ^ "Marina Vishmidt, 1976–2024", Historical Materialism, 29 April 2024
  7. ^ Stakemeier, Kerstin (2016). Reproducing autonomy: work, money, crisis and contemporary art. London. ISBN 9781906496999. OCLC 967855147.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ Marina Vishmidt, Mary Anne Francis, Jo Walsh, Lewis Sykes, ed. (2006). Media Mutandis: A Node.London Reader: Surveying Art, Technologies and Politics. [London]. ISBN 0955243505. OCLC 154678056.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
  9. ^ Vishmidt, Marina (2018). Speculation as a Mode of Production. Leiden. doi:10.1163/9789004384774. ISBN 978-90-04-29137-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. ^ Beech, Dave (8 August 2024). "Review: Marina Vishmidt: Speculation as a Mode of Production". Art Monthly. Archived from the original on 8 October 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  11. ^ Agar Ledo, Gill Park, Grace Schwindt, Marina Vishmidt, Bridget Crone (2016). Grace Schwindt. Vigo: Fundacion MARCO & Goethe Institut. ISBN 978-84-943529-1-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ The grand domestic revolution goes on. Choi, Binna., Tanaka, Maiko., Casco, Office for Art, Design, and Theory. Utrecht: London. 2010. ISBN 9781907414145. OCLC 697775234.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  13. ^ Choi, Binna; Krauss, Annette; van der Heide, Yolande; Allan, Liz, eds. (2018). Unlearning Exercises: Art Organizations as Sites for Unlearning. Casco Art Institute. ISBN 978-94-92095-53-4.
  14. ^ "Artists at Work: Maryam Jafri". www.afterall.org. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  15. ^ ""Mimesis of the Hardened and Alienated": Social Practice as Business Model". www.e-flux.com. March 2013. Retrieved 2018-03-02.,
  16. ^ Vishmidt, Marina (7 March 2013). "Permanent Reproductive Crisis: An Interview with Silvia Federici". Metamute. Archived from the original on 4 May 2024. Retrieved 4 May 2024.,
  17. ^ "The Sweetest Taboo". www.textezurkunst.de. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  18. ^ "Beri-Beri: No. 2. No.? / Marina Vishmidt". 1996.
  19. ^ "Miss Mary Mack - ZineWiki - the history and culture of zines, independent media and the small press".
  20. ^ Ruth Buchanan, Marina Vishmidt (2010). Lying Freely. New Zealand: Jan van Eyck Academie and Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory. ISBN 978-90-72076-41-0.
  21. ^ Anfang gut. Alles gut : Aktualisierungen der futuristischen Oper Sieg über die Sonne (1913) = Actualizations of the futurist opera Victory over the sun (1913). Birkenstock, Eva, 1978-, Köller, Nina., Stakemeier, Kerstin, 1975-. Köln: Walther König. 2012. ISBN 9783863351441. OCLC 849898840.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  22. ^ "Out of the Past: An Interview with Cinenova". www.metamute.org. 28 June 2011. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  23. ^ "Who the FuC?". Full Unemployment Cinema. 2013-05-12. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
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