Stephan Geene, PhD

Associate Member

geene(at)mdw.ac.at

Bibliography

Stephan Geene works artistically as a filmmaker and theoretically on the “materiality of the post-war”. He is currently developing a project on plastic (‘Plastic’s Paradigm) in collaboration with the Artistic Research Center (ARC) and the International Research Center Gender and Performativity (ICGP) at the mdw.

Stephan Geene is co-founder of b_books, a Berlin art and publishing collective, where he has translated Paul B. Preciado, Maurizio Lazzarato and Jacques Rancière, among others, into German. His most recent work was the film/series SHAYNE (D 2019) and the book Freiheit 71: Ricky Shayne, Musik und die Materialität des Nachkriegs (Berlin 2022).

Publications

• „Books as Objects and Deferred Use-Value Promises in Art / Bücher als Gegenstände und verschobene Gebrauchswertversprechen in der Kunst.“
• In: Going Public, Creating Visibility in the Field of Art (Ed. by Soenke Gau, Sigrid Adorf), Zürich/ Berlin 2025.
• „»Real–Time« as infrastructure. Two works by Hans Haackes and infrastrukturual critique” (together with Sabeth Buchmann), in: Hans Haacke (Ed. by Belvedere, Schirn et al.), 2024 und 2025.
• „Alive Supreme.” In: Putting Rehearsal to the Test (Hg. von Sabeth Buchmann, Ilse Lafer, Constanze Ruhm), Berlin/NY, 2018.
• „wach sein. being on wiederholungsloops.“ In: Die Couch des Armen, Felix Guattari (Hg. von Leeb, u.a.), Berlin 2011.
• „1967, Zeit und x-beliebige Filme“, In: Avantgarde, Film, Biopolitik (Hg. v. S. Buchmann, H. Draxler, S. Geene), Wien 2009.
• „The Happiness of the displaced feeling. The invisible hand, penis surrogates, and sex”, in: PostPornPolitics, (Ed. by Tim Stüttgen), Berlin 2009.
• „Meaningful, Meaningless, and Free of All Meaning: Subjects in Spent Time.” In: Capital it fails us now (Ed. by Simon Sheikh, Katja Sander), Berlin, 2006.
• „Interventionismus, politische Kunst“, In: Lexikon der zeitgenössischen Kunst (Hg v. Hubertus Butin), Köln 2005.