Friday, 5 September 2003, 7 p.m.
About My Early Film Installations 

Dan Graham

Monday, 8 September 2003, 6 p.m.
About My Visitor Polls in Galleries
Hans Haacke

Saturday, 20 September 2003, 6 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Lange Nacht der Museen
Every hour guided tours through the exhibition
"Franz West Lounge" with drinks and music,
DJs Special: Claudia S and Susi K, "Franz West Lounge"

Thursday, 16 October 2003, 7 p.m.
Commercial Censorship - Cultural Capital. 
A Speculation
Harun Farocki
The VIENNALE festival (17-18 October 2003) presents the latest film by Harun Farocki, "War at a Distance" (GER, 2003, 54 min). Audience discussion in the new VIENNALE festival center. Further information at http://www.viennale.at

Saturday, 25 Oktober 2003, 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Conference 
International museum experts and theorists lecture on collecting as institutional practice. Along with addressing questions of uniqueness, internationalism, and medialization, the discussions will also focus on the (re-)writing of history. The Conference will be held in English.

15.00
Introduction
Sabine Breitwieser, Director Generali Foundation

15.30
Claiming and Collecting - Institutional and Artistic Practices
Beatrice von Bismarck, Professor for Art History and Visual Culture, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig

16.15
Collecting in the Context of the Pompidou Centre
Perseverance, Interferences, Presentation, Specificity, Globalisation
Christine van Assche, Chief Curator, New Media Art Department, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
 

17.00
Museum as a Space of (Re)Definition
Zdenka Badovinac, Director and Curator Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana

18.00
The Return of Politics
Manuel Borja-Villel, Director Museu d‘Art Contemporani, Barcelona

18.45
Panel discussion chaired by
Martin Fritz, Project coordinator and free-lance Curator, Vienna

 

Wednesday 5 November 2003, 7 p.m.
Presentation Collection Catalogue
Occupying Space
Generali Foundation Collection
Germ./Engl., ca. 664 pages, ca. 680 color- and 420 b&w illustr. The first comprehensive publication on the internationally renowned Generali Foundation Collection with numerous illustrations and texts by the artists.
Musikperformance: Iron Fist (Katrina Daschner, Sabine Marte, Gini Müller, Christina Nemec)

Thursday, 13 November 2003, 7 p.m.
Feminist Intervention in Media
Sanja Ivekovic

Thursday, 27 November 2003, 7 p.m.
Investigations
Friedl Kubelka