Specialization:
Prof. Spieker research focuses on transnational modern and contemporary art, with a focus on Eastern Europe, Soviet and post-Soviet space, and Central Asia.
Education:
Prof.Spieker has been a visiting professor at Constance University, Germany, and at Monash University (Melbourne, AUS)
Bio:
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Research:
Prof.Spieker is also interested in aesthetic theory at the intersection of philosophy and decolonization. I have published about diverse topics, including the archive and contemporary media theory; destruction in art; the problem of acousmatic sound; as well as 19th- and 20th-century European literature and film.
Projects:
Prof. Spieker's experience as a curator includes an exhibition of East-German artist Ruth-Wolf Rehfeldt at the National Gallery in Tirana, Albania.
Publications:
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Art as Demonstration: A Revolutionary Recasting of Knowledge (Cambridge/Mass.: MIT Press, 2024)
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Sven Spieker/Mario Asef (eds.), Akusmatik als Labor. Kultur–Kunst–Medien (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2023).
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(ed.), Destruction [Documents of Contemporary Art] (Cambridge: MIT Press/Whitechapel, 2017).
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(ed.) Socialist Exhibition Cultures: International Art Exhibitions in the Socialist World 1947-1989 (Toronto University Press; forthcoming in 2025)
Courses:
Prof.Spieker's undergraduate classes tend to focus on art and literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, while his graduate courses are offered in History of Art and Architecture and Comparative Literature.