You are warmly invited to a public lecture by Asia Bazdyrieva, who will present her current research on the entanglements of aesthetic regimes, power, and technopolitics within planetary imaginaries.
Public Lecture: Asia Bazdyrieva | 27. 11., 18:30
Lecture
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Power Over, Power To, Power Through
WHEN: Thursday, 27 November, 6:30 PM
WHERE: Room 115, Jan Palach Square, UMPRUM
LANGUAGE: English
ENTRY: Free
In Power Over, Power To, Power Through, Asia Bazdyrieva will explore how environments are mediated and the material consequences of these processes — often involving the flattening and erasure of multiple worlds. She traces the long histories of aesthetic, political, and technological regimes shaped by imperial and colonial forces, operating through resourcification. By examining territorial imaginaries through figures such as the desert, the laboratory, and the recovery, she outlines the geographic and temporal scales through which geopower and geoaesthetics take form, while revealing the dimensions of the “geo” that often remain unseen.
The lecture is part of the SHIFT Autumn Lecture Series 2025, which brings together thinkers and practitioners examining civilizational transitions, ecological design, and contemporary technological paradigms.
About the Speaker
Asia Bazdyrieva is a scholar and writer whose work investigates the relations between language, territory, and power. With a background in art history and analytical chemistry, she studies how environments are produced through aesthetic, political, and technological mediations, and how these processes shape both landscapes and bodies. She is a researcher at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and serves on the advisory board of the transmediale festival in Berlin.
We look forward to welcoming you.
