Jordan Crandall:

Under Fire is an ongoing art and research project for the analysis of war and political violence. It explores the organization, representation, and materialization of armed conflicts: their structural, symbolic, and affective dimensions.

The next Under Fire will take place during the period 16 October - 10 December 2006, as a project for the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville.

At the core of this project is an online forum. We invite you to subscribe to the forum and participate in the discussion. To subscribe, send a blank email to: underfire-join@underfire.eyebeam.org

Further information: http://underfire.eyebeam.org

SCHEDULE

OCT 16 - OCT 21
PRELUDE
AMIR PARSA

OCT 22 - OCT 28
WAR INFRASTRUCTURES
ALAIN JOXE
with JOHN ARMITAGE and PAUL N. EDWARDS
Intervention: KELLER EASTERLING (on the global industry of subtraction); RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE (on the act of 'turning a deaf ear')
Insertions: MANUEL DELANDA (on war ecologies); CHALMERS JOHNSON (on military baseworlds)

OCT 29 - NOV 4
VIOLENCE AS SYSTEMIC CONSEQUENCE
LORETTA NAPOLEONI
with JAMES DER DERIAN and NABEEL ZIAD
Intervention: TREVOR PAGLEN (on stealth installations)
Insertion: MAHMOOD MAMDANI (on the legacy of the Cold War and the roots of terror)

NOV 5 - NOV 11
CULTURAL FICTIONS AND SYMBOLIC REALITIES
NEGAR MOTTAHEDEH
with RYAN BISHOP, RADHIKA SUBRAMANIAM, and ANANYA VAJPEYI
Intervention: CALEB WALDORF (on ecologies of suspicion)
Insertions: JEAN BAUDRILLARD (on the irreducible singularity); TERRY EAGELTON (on terror as symbolic form); KLAUS THEWELEIT (on war as symbolic system of desire)

NOV 12 - NOV 18
RELIGION, POLITICS, MEDIA, AND WAR
MELANI MCALISTER
with MARY KELLER, JOHN WILLIAM PHILLIPS, and ANA VALDES
Insertion: TALAL ASAD (on the inseparability of modern politics and religion)

NOV 19 - NOV 25
SECULARISM AND RELIGIOUS REVIVALISM
BARBARA VICTOR
with SABA MAHMOOD and HAREL SHAPIRA
Insertion: JACQUELINE ROSE (on Zionism); ARTHUR KROKER (on born again ideology)

NOV 24 - NOV 25
SEVILLE ENACTIONS
TARIQ ALI, GEMA MARTIN MUNOZ, and EYAL WEISMAN
with CALEB WALDORF and ANA VALDES

NOV 26 - DEC 2
POWER, SPECTACLE, AND REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS
RETORT
with IAN DOUGLAS and THOMAS KEENAN
Intervention: SLAVOJ ZIZEK (on traversing the fantasy)

DEC 3 - DEC 10
VIOLENCE, SENSATION, AND POLITICAL SPACE

NIGEL THRIFT
with BRIAN HOLMES, ANAHID KASSABIAN, and AMIT RAI
Interventions: ARIELLA AZOULAY (on the visual presence of death); RULA HALAWANI (on sites of intimacy)
Insertions: BRIAN MASSUMI (on the politics of affect); FRIEDRICH KITTLER (on love)