Annual theme “Human after Man“


Interdisciplinary Lecture Series (WS 2018/19)

18 December 2018, 7:00 pm

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Louisa Gagliardi, Luciana Parisi

Louisa Gagliardi

Louisa Gagliardi is a Swiss artist living and working in Zurich and Paris. She received her BFA in Graphic Design from ECAL in 2012 and has worked on commercial commissions for L’Officiel, Kenzo, Hublot and Mousse Magazine among others, being granted the Swiss Design Award in 2014. In 2016 Gagliardi was granted a residency at La Fondation Suisse in Paris supported by the Wallis Canton, as well as an artist residency at the La Brea Studio in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, more recently at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK; LUMA Foundation, Zürich, CH; Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, CH; Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, BE; Pilar Corrias, London, UK; Antenna Space, Shanghai, CN. She was featured in the book Vitamin P3: New Perspective on Painting (Phaidon, 2016).

Luciana Parisi is reader in cultural theory, chair of the PhD programme in cultural studies and co-director of the Digital Culture Unit at Goldsmiths University of London. In her philosophy-led work she investigates technology in culture, aesthetics and politics, and she has also written within the field of media philosophy and computational design. Parisi is the author of Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (Continuum Press, 2004) and Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and Space (MIT Press, 2013). She is currently researching the history of automated reasoning and writing about the modern origin of machine philosophy.

Annual theme "Human after Man"

Interdisciplinary Lecture Series (WS 2018/19)

30 October 2018, 7:00 pm

Afrofuturistic Visions of the Human

Jean-Pierre Bekolo

Jean-Pierre Bekolo (with excerpts from his movies "Les Saignantes", 2005 and "Naked Reality", 2016)

Jean-Pierre Bekolo is an avant-garde filmmaker whose imaginative work overturns stereotypes of Africa and African cinema. His films operate on multiple layers, engaging viewers with thrilling stories, biting humour and dramatic aesthetics. Bekolo was born in Yaoundé, studied physics at the University of Yaoundé as well as television production (editing) and semiotics under Christian Metz at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA) in Paris.

Bekolo has taught film at Virginia Tech, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and at Duke University. His films have been screened internationally and he has won numerous awards. Among his recent works are the documentary Les Choses et Les Mots de Mudimbe (2015) on the renowned Congolese philosopher and multi-linguist Valentin-Yves Mudimbe (part of the official selection of the 2015 Berlinale), the controversial fake documentary film Le President (2015 AMAA Awards Best screenplay and Jury Special Prize) which was banned in Cameroon, and the TV Drama series Our Wishes (2017), an African perspective on the first encounter between Cameroonian chiefs and the Germans just before the Berlin conference of 1884. In 2017, his film Les Saignantes (2015) was selected by the MOMA New York among the 70 classics of science-fiction.

Annual theme „Human after Man“


Interdisciplinary Lecture Series (WS 2018/19)

23 October 2018, 7:00 pm

Monstrous Re-figurations

Morehshin Allahyari

Morehshin Allahyari

Morehshin Allahyari is a media artist, activist, educator, and curator who uses computer modelling, 3D scanning and digital fabrication techniques to explore the intersection of art and activism. Inspired by concepts of collective archiving, memory, and cultural contradiction, Allahyari’s 3D printed sculptures and videos challenge social and gender norms. She is currently developing a new body of work on digital colonialism and re-figuring as a feminist and decolonialist practice, titled She Who Sees the Unknown and supported by a joint commission from The Whitney Museum of Art, Liverpool Biennial, and FACT, as well as a 2018 Rhizome commission. Allahyari is currently an artist in residence at Pioneer Works in New York. Further recent accolades included a research residency at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center (2016–17), a sculpture award from the Institute of Digital Art (2016), and Foreign Policy Magazine naming her a Leading Global Thinker of 2016. Her work has been part of numerous exhibitions, festivals, and workshops at venues throughout the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre Pompidou in Paris; Venice Biennale di Archittectura; Pori Museum, Finland and Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main. Allahyari received her MFA at the University of North Texas, MA at University of Denver and her BA at the University of Tehran, Iran. She is co-creator of the 3D Additivist Manifesto and subsequent 3D Additivist Cookbook.

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Annual theme "Politcs of Emotion/Power of Affect"
Interdisciplinary Lecture Series (WS 2017/18)

2. Februar 2018

Rage and Power(lessness)

with Eva Illouz and Milo Rau


The Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz is a full professor in the Department of Sociology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and Directrice d'Études at the EHESS in Paris. Her research interests include sociology of culture, sociology of emotions, sociology of capitalism, and the effect of consumerism and mass media on emotional patterns. Illouz is the author of ten books about topics as diverse as romantic love, Oprah Winfrey as cultural form, or emotions in the age of capitalism. Her books have won international awards and have been translated into altogether 23 languages. In 2004, she was invited to deliver the prestigious Adorno lecture series in Frankfurt, Germany and in 2009, Illouz was chosen by the German newspaper, Die Zeit, as one of 12 academics who are most likely to “shape the thought of tomorrow”. She has received the Annaliese Maier Award for Excellence in Research from the Humboldt Foundation and the EMET award, the highest scientific award in Israel. Illouz was a fellow in the “Wissenschaftskolleg” in Berlin and in Princeton at the Institute for Advanced Studies, and writes regularly for Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit and Ha’aretz on various subjects such as literature, politics and social affairs.

Annual theme "Politcs of Emotion/Power of Affect"
Interdisciplinary Lecture Series (WS 2017/18)

9 January 2018

Empathy and Justice

with Carolyn Pedwell and Susanna Hertrich

Carolyn Pedwell is Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of Kent (UK), where she is Head of Cultural Studies and Media. She has been Visiting Fellow at the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, the Centre for the History of Emotions at Queen Mary University of London, and the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics. Among her publications are Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy (Palgrave, 2014) and Feminism, Culture and Embodied 
Practice (Routledge, 2010). In her forthcoming book, Transforming Habit, she explores the relationships between habit, affect and social transformation (McGill-Queen’s University Press).

Susanna Hertrich’s work is situated at the intersection of an expanded notion of design and contemporary art. Through a series of speculative wearable devices, she investigates the technological augmentation of the human sensory apparatus as well as the role of the human body and its sensory perception in an increasingly technology-mediated environment. Alongside her artistic practice, she heads the Integrated Design master studio at the Academy of Art and Design FHNW in Basel. Her artistic research includes the SNFS-funded project “Sensorium of Animals” that she co-conducted with Shintaro Miyazaki between 2016–19 at the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures IXDM at the Academy of Art and Design FHNW. Other research activities include fellowships at the Meta-Perception research group at The University of Tokyo (2009) and the Design Research Lab at the Berlin University of the Arts (2011), among others. Susanna studied Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London (MA) and Visual Communication at Peter Behrens School of Art in Düsseldorf (diploma degree), as well as Media Art at the Tokyo University of the Arts. Her works are published and exhibited internationally in art and design exhibitions, among others at Kunstverein Mannheim, Boston Center for the Arts, Vienna Biennial/MAK, Dorsky Gallery in New York, Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, Schader foundation gallery in Darmstadt, Vitra Design Museum in Weil, V&A Dundee, CAFA Art Museum in Beijing. Susanna received several grants, among others an artist residency from the Goethe Institute at the Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto (2015) and from the Atelier Mondial at Tokyo Arts and Space (2019). www.susannahertrich.com

Annual theme "Politcs of Emotion/Power of Affect"
Interdisciplinary Lecture Series (WS 2017/18)

05 December 2017

Affective Atmospheres

with Ben Anderson and Jace Clayton

Ben Anderson is a Professor in Human Geography at the Department of Geography at Durham University. Over the past five years, his research has focused on how affects arising in situations of emergency such as hope and fear are part of contemporary political and cultural life. Supported by the Leverhulme Trust, he has worked on a genealogy of the birth of the “emergency state”. His current research focuses on the “affective lives”
of neoliberalism, including most recently joint work with Helen Wilson on the moods and atmospheres that cluster around the event of Brexit in the impasse between the referendum result and exiting the EU. His monograph on theories of affect, Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions (Routledge) was published in 2014.

Jace Clayton is an artist and writer based in Manhattan, also known for his work as DJ/rupture. Clayton uses an interdisciplinary approach to focus on how sound inflects and articulates our sense of shared political space, with an emphasis on low-income communities and non-Western geographies. His book Uproot: Travels in 21st Century Music and Digital Culture was published in 2016 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He has performed in over three dozen countries, both solo and as director of large ensemble performances. As DJ/rupture, he has released several critically acclaimed albums and hosted a weekly radio show on WFMU. He gives frequent artist talks and lectures at a number of cultural institutions worldwide. Since 2018 his work has been exhibited internationally. Clayton’s essays have appeared in n+1, ARTFORUM, Frieze, and New York Times Magazine. He was awarded a 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers grant for his second book, Behold the Monkey. 
Clayton serves on the Music faculty of Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, taught at Harvard University in 2019, and was the 2017-2018 Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill. jaceclayton.com

Annual theme "Politcs of Emotion/Power of Affect"
Interdisciplinary Lecture Series (WS 2017/18)

12 December 2017

Poltics of Fear

with Serhat Karakayalı and Yael Ronen

Serhat Karakayalı is a researcher and co-head of department at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM) at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He is currently investigating topics such as volunteer work for refugees, cosmopolitan concepts of solidarity, and civil society as a place of political socialization in the migration society. His most recent publications include "The Welcomers: How Volunteers Frame Their Commitment for Refugees", in: Refugee protection and civil society in Europe (Palgrave MacMillan 2019) and „Solidarität in postmigrantischen Allianzen: Die Suche nach dem Common Ground jenseits individueller Erfahrungskontexte“, in: Postmigrantische Perspektiven. Ordnungssysteme, Repräsentationen, Kritik (Campus 2018).

Annual theme "Politcs of Emotion/Power of Affect"
Interdisciplinary Lecture Series (WS 2017/18)

28 November 2017

Structure of Emotion

with Keren Cytter

Keren Cytter was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and lives in New York. She studied art at the Avni Institute for Art in Tel Aviv and, with a scholarship, at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. Since then she has developed a large body of work including a number of films and video suites, theatrical plays, published three novels, and established D.I.E Now, a theatre company whose name stands for Dance International Europe. Her work often results in an elaborated display of emotions in human communication and relationships where the line between comic and tragic and between fiction and reality is blurred. Her work was already honoured with solo exhibitions worldwide, more recently at Pilar Corrias in London (Ocean, 2016), Mathew Gallery in New York (Panoramas, 2016), Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien in Graz (Keren Cytter Selection, 2016) and Noga Gallery in Tel Aviv (Here and There, 2015). Furthermore, her work was included in group exhibitions, to name but the most recent ones – at Void Gallery in Derry, Northern Ireland (Nothing But Longing, 2017), Frankfurt Portikus (House of Commons, 2016), Kunsthalle Wien (Political Populism, 2015), Kunstpalais Erlangen (Affects, 2014), Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, (The Sting of the Scorpion, 2014) and in the 5th Marrakech Biennial (Where are we Now?, 2014).