The programm:
Tuesday, May 7
Art in a Multipolar World (English)
Mi You
Tuesday, May 21
New Right art (English)
Andreas Niegl and Nikolay Smirnov
Tuesday, May 28
Problems of the culture of debate
Maria-Sibylla Lotter
Tuesday, June 4
Censorship and Vanguard (English)
Wang Tuo
Tuesday, June 11
Whose Institution? An international perspective (English)
Lilet Breddels and Vasyl Cherepanyn
Tuesday, June 18
Small World (English)
Brian Kuan Wood
Brian Kuan Wood discusses the 13th Taipei Biennale "Small World“ (2023–2024) which he co-curated with Freya Chou and Reem Shadid. The exhibition was conceived in response to the distortions of scale and perception experienced during lockdown. Wood and his co-curators delved into historical precedents, using them as a sculptural material to help navigate the complexities of the present, presenting them along unexpected works to offer a fresh meditation on today's paradoxes, free from ideological clichés.
Brian Kuan Wood is a writer and editor based in New York. In 2008 he initiated e-flux journal with Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda, along with a series of readers in collaboration with Sternberg Press.
Tuesday, June 25
documenta am Nullpunkt
Harry Lehmann
Harry Lehmann sees the anti-Semitism scandal at documenta fifteen as a symptom of a deeper politicization of institutions, in which political values are increasingly displacing intrinsic institutional values such as art, education or knowledge. Cultural scenes in particular react hyper-sensitively to political communication, which leads to political rather than artistic criteria influencing the selection of artists. Harry Lehmann suggests overcoming this crisis by asking fundamental questions about the role and function of art in liberal democracies at the next documenta.
Philosopher Harry Lehmann researches and teaches at the University of Luxembourg. His research focuses on the philosophy of art and music, systems theory and AI aesthetics.
Tuesday, July 2
Awareness: Fallstricke beim Kampf gegen Diskriminierung
[Awareness: Pitfalls in the fight against discrimination]
Sighard Neckel and Sabine Hark
In the context of current conflicts over minority rights, anti-discrimination and diversity, practices of "awareness" have emerged in numerous public spaces as a method of avoiding discrimination. Sabine Hark and Sieghard Nickel discuss these instructions and behavioral programs that aim to take into account the feelings of people and groups who are considered socially disadvantaged. Hark and Nickel shed light on the self-contradictions that can arise from viewing individual feelings as inviolable signals of discrimination, thereby adopting social categories of origin, ethnicity and gender, which are typically used by many types of discrimination themselves.
Sighard Neckel is Professor of Social Analysis and Social Change at the University of Hamburg and researches social inequalities and cultural change. Sabine Hark is Professor of Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies at the Technical University of Berlin and focuses on feminist theory and critical social research.
Tuesday, July 9
Jede Zeit ist eine gute Zeit, um eine Zeitschrift zu gründen.
Tobias Haberkorn and Eliana Kirkcaldy
Tobias Haberkorn and Eliana Kirkcaldy present "Berlin Review". The recently founded magazine publishes literary essays and book reviews on current topics, supplemented by shorter columns and commentaries. In conversation, Haberkorn and Kirkcaldy explain how they, together with their colleagues Caroline Adler and Samir Sellam, are facilitation the magazine as a space for discourse that sets itself apart from soulless internationalism and is not limited exclusively to German-language continuities.
Eliana Kirkcaldy and Tobias Haberkorn are co-founders of the magazine "Berlin Review". Tobias Haberkorn is a literary scholar, author and translator who worked as a cultural editor for Zeit Online and has translated essays and plays by Didier Eribon, Alain Badiou and Ryan Trecartin, among others. Eliana Kirkcaldy studied contemporary stage dance and cultural studies. She is currently working on an edition of new translations of texts by the French writer Colette Peignot.
Current and more detailed information at:
https://www.traces-ausstellungsstudien.de/veranstaltungen-2024/zu-viel-zu-wenig
The event series was conceived by Mi You and Philipp Oswalt. For students of the Kunsthochschule, the university and interested guests there will be an accompanying seminar Tuesday, 4 - 6 pm ct. takes place. Contact: oswalt@asl.uni-kassel.de