đź“Ť University Library (Reading Room, M7)
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna
About the Event
Join us for the presentation of Volume 28 in the Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna:
Standpoint Autotheory. Writing Embodied Experiences and Relational Artistic Practices, edited by Ana de Almeida and Mariel RodrĂguez, published by Sternberg Press, London (2025).
The event will begin with a welcome by Rector Johan Hartle, followed by a presentation and conversation with the editors and contributing authors.
About the Book
Standpoint Autotheory brings together twelve contributions, including work by Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, that explore radically self-reflexive modes of research and artistic practice. The volume traces how embodied, situated, and relational experiences can function as critical tools for knowledge production, social transformation, and the reconfiguration of dominant epistemologies.
The book’s contributors engage with diverse methodologies, including autoethnography, auto-historia teorĂa, standpoint theories, strong objectivity, situated knowledge, performative philosophy, and autofiction, to illuminate the intersections of the personal and the political, and the interconnections between individual and collective experience.
Through these varied approaches, Standpoint Autotheory foregrounds how writing and artistic practice can act as sites of resistance, self-authorization, and radical positioning; where thinking and feeling, theory and lived experience, converge.
Contributors and Editors
Edited by Ana de Almeida and Mariel RodrĂguez
Published by Sternberg Press, London (2025)
Volume 28 of the Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna