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

21 November 2017

Media-Mobilised Affect

with Marie Luise Angerer and Cécile B. Evans

Marie-Luise Angerer is a professor of Media Studies at the University of Potsdam, Acting Director of the Brandenburg Centre for Media Studies (ZeM), and spokeperson of the graduate program Sensing: The Knowledge of Sensitive Media. The focus of her research is on the relation between media technology, and affect theory, and the reformulation of desire and sexuality through the parameters of neurosciences and media technology. Her most recent publications include Ecology of Affect. Intensive Milieus and Contingent Encounters (Meson Press, 2017), Desire After Affect (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, German original diaphanes, 2007), Timing of Affect. Epistemologies, Aesthetics, Politics (with Bernd Bösel and Michaela Ott, diaphanes 2014), and various articles on the term of the non-conscious and its growing role between human actors and nonhuman agency.

Cécile B. Evans is an American-Belgian artist living and working in London. Her work examines the value of emotion in contemporary society and the increasing impact of technology on humanity and the systems it has developed. Recent selected solo exhibitions include 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine (FR), Museum Abteiberg (DE), Tramway (UK), Chateau Shatto (US), Museo Madre (IT), mumok Vienna (AT), Castello di Rivoli (IT), Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT), Tate Liverpool (UK), Kunsthalle Aarhus (DK), M Museum Leuven (BE), De Hallen Haarlem (NL), and Serpentine Galleries (UK). Evans’ work has been included amongst others at Whitechapel Gallery (UK), Haus der Kunst (DE), Mito Art Tower (JP), Renaissance Society Chicago (US), the 7th International Moscow Biennale (RU),  the 4th Ural Industrial Biennial (RU), Galerie Kamel Mennour (FR), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (DK), the 9th Berlin Biennale (DE), the 20th Sydney Biennale (AUS), Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (ES), and Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (FR). Evans’ films have been screened in festivals such as the New York Film Festival and Rotterdam International. Public collections include The Museum of Modern Art, New York (US), The Rubell Family Collection, Miami (US), Whitney Museum of American Art (US), De Haallen (NL), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (IT), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (DK), and FRAC Auvergne (FR).

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

09. November 2017

Emotional Terrains of the Social

with Deborah Gould

Deborah Gould is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz (and Affiliated Faculty in the Departments of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Politics). She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in Political Science in 2000, and was a post-doctoral Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts there, 2000-04. Her book Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS (University of Chicago Press, 2009) won several awards, among them the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Best Book Award (American Sociological Association’s Political Sociology Section, 2010) and the Ruth Benedict Book Prize (American Anthropological Association, 2010). Currently she is working on another book about political emotion, Composing Collectivities: Appetite, Encounters, and the Not-Yet of Politics. Gould was involved in ACT UP/Chicago for many years, and later in Queer to the Left, and was a founding member of Feel Tank Chicago, a collaborative group of academics, artists, and activists, most famous for its “International Parades of the Politically Depressed.”

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

2 November 2017

In the Beginning there was Emotion

with Antonio Damasio

Arbeitsstipendium 2016/17 und 2017/18

in Höhe von 3.000 Euro

In den Jahren 2016/17 und 2017/18 bestand für Studierende der Akademie der Bildenden Künste, die am damaligen Jahresprogramm des cx teilnahmen, die Möglichkeit sich um ein Arbeitsstipendium zu bewerben. Das Stipendium in Höhe von 3.000 Euro wurde für ein künstlerisches (Forschungs-)Vorhaben vergeben, das einen inhaltlichen Bezug zum Jahresthema aufwies und auf einer interdisziplinären Kooperation (mit einem/einer Verteter/in eines anderen Fachbereichs) basiert. Gestiftet wurde das Arbeitsstipendium von SoNet – Soziales Netzwerk e.V. Ziel des Stipendiums war es, bereits in der künstlerischen Ausbildung ein Denken zu fördern, das Fachgrenzen überschreitet und kritisch zu gesamtgesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen beitragen kann. Seitdem ist das Stipendium aufgrund fehlender finanzieller Mittel ausgesetzt. 

12.01.2017

Designing Ecologies

with Betti Marenko and Martín Avila

The design theorist Betti Marenko is reader in Design and Techno-Digital Futures at the University of the Arts London (UAL), as well as Contextual Studies Leader for Product Design at Central Saint Martins (UAL). Furthermore she is Visiting Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Her work at the intersection of philosophy and design investigates the tension between design taken as way of speculating on, and instigating, futures, and thought that addresses materiality, the virtual and the nonhuman. She is interested in repositioning design in the 21st century as a problematising tool for thinking, making and creating change. She is the co-editor of the volume Deleuze and Design (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and her writing appears in several edited volumes, most recently: Believing in Bits: Digital Media and the Supernatural (Oxford University Press 2019), UnDesign: Critical Practices at the Intersection of Art and Design (Routledge 2018), Encountering Things. Design and Theories of Things (Bloomsbury 2017), as well as in the journals Design and Culture, Design Studies and Digital Creativity. www.bettimarenko.org

Martín Avila is Professor of Design at the Department of Design, Interior Architecture and Visual Communication at Konstfack in Stockholm where he has taught previously as a senior lecturer. The designer and design researcher obtained a PhD in design from HDK (School of Design and Crafts) in Gothenburg, Sweden, and his thesis Devices. On Hospitality, Hostility and Design published in 2012 was awarded the prize for design research by The Swedish Faculty for Design Research and Research Education in the same year. Therein he investigates the complex reciprocal relations between human and non-human actors as well as artificial devices and designs interventions within these networks, going beyond conventional user-centred approaches and cultivating ecologies as a design strategy. More recently he has continued this approach in his postdoctoral project Symbiotic tactics (2013-2016), which has been the first of its kind to be financed by the Swedish Research Council. www.martinavila.com

26.01.2017

Urban Ecologies

with Maria Kaika and Godofredo Pereira

Maria Kaika holds a PhD in Urban Geography from Oxford University, and an MA in Architecture and Planning from the National Technical University of Athens. She is the Chair in Urban, Regional and Environmental Planning, at the University of Amsterdam and is also Professor of Human Geography at the University of Manchester, Honorary Fellow of the Manchester Architecture Research Centre, and co-editor in chief of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. In 2012 the architect and geographer was endowed with the Professorship of the City of Vienna. She has taught at the Universities of Oxford, Paris Est (LATTS), KU Leuven, University of London and TU Vienna. The focus of her research lies on urban political ecology, urban radical imaginaries, cities and crisis, and land financialization. Her work has been awarded funding from national and international research councils and organisations (including the British Academy, the EU Framework Research Programme and the Marie Curie programme). Kaika is Principle Investigator for the European Network for Political Ecology ENTITLE. Amongst her academic publications are City of Flows: Modernity, Nature and the City (Routledge, New York 2005) and, as co-editor with Nik Heynen and Erik Swyngedouw, In the Nature of Cities: urban political ecology and the metabolism of urban environments (Routledge, London 2006).

Godofredo Pereira

Godofredo Pereira is an architect and researcher. He leads the MA Environmental Architecture at the Royal College of Art, London, where he also coordinates the research group Architecture and Social Movements. His doctoral research The Underground Frontier: Technoscience and Collective Politics at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University investigated political and territorial conflicts within the planetary race for underground resources. Prior to joining the RCA, he taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture. He was a member of Forensic Architecture where he led the Atacama Desert project, an investigation of environmental and human rights violations in the Atacama Desert, Chile. He edited the book Savage Objects (INCM, 2012) and was the curator of Objectology (European Capital of Culture, 2012) and of the exhibition Object / Project (Lisbon Architecture Triennial, 2016). Among other things, he is currently working on the publication Ex-Humus: Architecture and Territorial Politics in the Underground Frontier (forthcoming) and he is part of Transversal Collective, a design platform for institutional programming and territorial intervention.

Annual theme "Hybrid Ecologies"
Interdisciplinary Lecture Series (2016/17)

16.11.2016

Queer Ecologies

with Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky and Elly Clarke #Sergina 

Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky is Professor of Media Theory and Gender Studies at the Institute for Media Studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and an active contributor to the university’s Gender Studies network. Furthermore, she is an external affiliate of the Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at of Humboldt University, Berlin, the ICI Berlin and the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmith College, University of London. Deuber-Mankowsky studied philosophy and German literature in Zurich and Berlin and she co-founded and edited the journal Die Philosophin. Forum für Philosophie und feministische Theorie from 1990 to 2005. Her current research focuses, among other things, on the topic of queer subjectification in film in the light of the current transformation of film technologies and genres in the works of Todd Haynes, Su Friedrichs, Yael Bartana und Sharon Hayes (Queeres Post-Cinema, 2017). From 1995 until 2000, she was research fellow at the Department of Cultural History and Theory at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Among her recent publications are: Conatus und Lebensnot. Schlüsselbegriffe der Medienanthropologie (Ed. with Anna Tuschling, 2017), Denkweisen des Spiels. Medienphilosophische Annäherungen (Ed. with Reinhold Görling, 2017), Situiertes Wissen und regionale Epistemologie: Zur Aktualität Georges Canguilhems und Donna J. Haraways (Ed. with Christoph Holzhey, 2013), Praktiken der Illusion. Kant, Nietzsche, Cohen, Benjamin bis Donna J. Haraway (2007) and Lara Croft. Cyber Heroine (2005).

Elly Clarke is an artist and researcher. The focus of her multimedia-based artistic work lies on the transformation of the physical body in an increasingly digitally-mediated and experienced world, which she explores though performance, video, photography, music, curated and community-based projects. And through #Sergina, a Drag Princess alter ego, who performs songs online and offline about love, lust and loneliness in the age of digitalism. Performances take place usually in more than one place at once, with #Sergina played by different people simultaneously, linked up by Google Hangout and broadcasted live via YouTube. In this format, #Sergina (plural) has performed in museums, galleries, in queer and theatre contexts in several cities in the UK, in Europe and the USA, including The Lowry Centre, Salford Quays; Marlborough Theatre, Brighton; Kulturni Centar GRAD, Belgrade; Monster Ronson’s, Berlin, BOM, Birmingham; Secret Project Art Experiment, Brooklyn and The Island, Bristol. Other work has been shown at mac birmingham; Milton Keynes Gallery; Franklin Furnace, New York; Kiasma, Helsinki; ONCA, Brighton and Galerie Wedding, Berlin. Clarke has a BA in History of Art from Leeds University, a Masters in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College, London, and is a current CHASE funded PhD scholar at Goldsmiths, London, exploring the drag of physicality in the digital age. Elly has been collaborating with Vladimir Bjeličić on the #Sergina project since 2015. ellyclarke.com

Project class of artist Melanie Bonajo 

Annual theme "Real Magic" 

Summer term 2016

Melanie Bonajo examines through her photographs, videos, installations, performances and music projects the significance of spirituality for today’s younger generations, and she questions our contemporary belief systems, value standards, and our relation to nature. Shamanism, feminism, empathy and ecological consciousness are the central frames of reference of her current work. The Dutch artist lives and works in Amsterdam and New York. She studied religious studies, mysticism, and Western esotericism at the University of Amsterdam as well as art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, and the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work was exhibited and performed in international art institutions, among which the Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Moscow Biennial, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, and PPOW Gallery, New York; and her films were shown at festivals such as the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and the Berlinale. Furthermore the artist has written for several art magazines, was creative director of Capricious Magazine and curated among other shows, the QQC performance festival for pop music in visual arts at the Paradiso, Amsterdam. In addition to several books published, in 2013 she released the album Inua with her cosmic-folk band ZaZaZoZo (in collaboration with Joseph Marzolla). In 2016 Bonajo was shortlisted for the Dutch Pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennale and awarded the IFFR Tiger Award for her film Night Soil / Economy of Love. 

Homepage of Melanie Bonajo

01.12.2016

Media Ecologies

with Erich Hörl and BJ Nilsen

Erich Hörl holds the Chair of Media Culture and Media Philosophy at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He works on the conceptualization of a general ecology, a critique of cyberneticization of all modes of existence and a critical theory of Environmentality as well as on a history of fascination with non-modernity. He publishes internationally on the history, the problems and challenges of the contemporary technological condition. Among his publications are: General Ecology. The New Ecological Paradigm (Ed., Bloomsbury Academic 2017); Die technologische Bedingung. Beiträge zur Beschreibung der technischen Welt (Ed., Suhrkamp 2011); „Die Ökologisierung des Denkens“ (Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, 2016); Die Transformation des Humanen. Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte der Kybernetik (Ed. with Michael Hagner, Suhrkamp 2008); „A Thousand Ecologies: The Process of Cyberneticization and General Ecology“, (in: The Whole Earth. California and the Disappearance of the Outside, Eds. D. Diederichsen and A. Franke, Berlin, 2013); Sacred Channels: On the Archaic Illusion of Communication, with a preface by Jean-Luc Nancy (Amsterdam UP 2018).

BJ Nilsen is a composer and sound artist based in Amsterdam. His work primarily focuses on the sounds of nature and how they affect humans. Recent work has explored the urban acoustic realm and industrial geography in the Arctic regions of Norway and Russia. Based upon his research he collaborated with filmmaker Karl Lemieux to develop the audiovisual work unearthed (2014) which was featured in the Sonic Acts publication The Geologic Imagination (2015). His original scores and soundtracks have featured in theatre, dance performances and film, in collaborations with Chris Watson, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Stilluppsteypa and others. Moreover Nilsen co-edited the book-CD The Acoustic City (jovis, 2014) and had his two latest solo albums Eye of The Microphone (2013) and The Invisible City (2010) released by the Touch label.

BJ Nilsen during sound recordings in Nikel, Russia.

Gastprofessorin SoSe 2016

cx centrum für interdisziplinäre studien

In ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit erforscht Mariechen Danz den Körper und die Bedingungen von Körperlichkeit und untersucht Möglichkeiten, aber auch Grenzen der Artikulation. So fragt sie, inwieweit das Vermögen von Sprache oder die Lesbarkeit und Hierarchie von Zeichen Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten eröffnen oder vielmehr verwehren können. Danz arbeitet mit Kostümen, Zeichnungen, Skulpturen und Installationen und aktiviert diese im Rahmen von inszenierten Performances, bei denen der Stimme eine zentrale Rolle zukommt.

Die gebürtige Irin studierte an der Universität der Künste, Berlin, an der Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam und am California Institute of the Arts, wo sie 2008 mit einem MA in Art & Integrated Media abschloss. Ihrer Arbeit wurden Einzelausstellungen in der GAK – Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, am CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel und im Kunstverein Göttingen gewidmet. Ferner waren ihre Arbeiten weltweit im Rahmen von Gruppenausstellungen zu sehen, unter anderem am Palais de Tokyo in Paris, im Kunsthaus Bregenz, im New Museum, New York, und demnächst in Mapping the Body in der Galerie im Taxispalais in Innsbruck und in Polyphonies am Centre Pompidou Paris. Die Künstlerin lebt und arbeitet in Berlin und ist aktuell Stipendiatin des Arbeitsstipendiums des Berliner Senats (2016). Zuvor erhielt sie das Karl Schmitt-Rottluff Stipendium (2014) und den Villa Romana Preis (2013).

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