Tuning into Worlds. More-than-Human Aesthetics in the Arts
Lecture series of the DFG Research Training Group “Knowledge in the Arts” in cooperation with Studium Generale, UdK Berlin
On Mondays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Location:
Medienhaus (Aula)
UdK Berlin
Grunewaldstr. 2–5, 10823 Berlin
The lecture series language is English.
Free and open to the public
Description
Artistic practices engage with the natural and technological worlds in which we are embedded. How do animal, plant, geological, or machinic forms of perception, knowledge, and being come to bear in aesthetic processes?
The lecture series focuses on the capacities of the arts to cross, question, and reconfigure human measures, action, and sensing. The question of a more-than-human aesthetics that results from these capacities leads in two directions: How to account for nonhuman aspects, scales, and perspectives within anthropocentric conceptions of art production and reception? And where must we acknowledge forms of aesthetic and perception, poiesis and aisthesis, beyond the human?
The perspective of more-than-human aesthetics aims to disclose practices and concepts in order to historicize and criticize the entanglement between the arts and their respective technological and natural environments. How can artistic practices alter these entanglements and test other modes of relation? And what material articulations and narratives, what artistic methods, does this propose or demand? What worlds appear and emerge if we focus on more-than-human aesthetics in the arts?
Timetable
28.10.2019 Astrid Schrader: Haunted Microbes between Science and Arts
Moderation: Silvia Bahl
11.11.2019 Monika Bakke: Mineral Companionships of Evolving Environments
Moderation: Renate Wöhrer
25.11.2019 Pinar Yoldas: Trapped in our Umwelt. Expanding Ecological Empathy through Art and Design
Moderation: Sebastian Köthe
09.12.2019 M. Beatrice Fazi: Aesthetics and the Computational Outside
Moderation: Irina Raskin
06.01.2020 Christoph Cox: Against Subjectalism. Materialism, Posthumanism, and the Sonic Arts
Moderation: Fritz Schlüter
20.01.2020 Mette Ingvartsen: Expanded Choreography. Encounters between Human and Non-Human Moderation: Maximilian Haas
03.02.2020 Jussi Parikka & Geocinema (Asia Bazdyrieva, Solveig Suess): Art from Large-Scale Systems: Operational Images and Geocinema
Moderation: Maja Figge