Pool I: REALTY MATTERS: Art, Infrastructure and the Building Johanna Bruckner & Alexandros Kyriakatos with BLOCC (Building Leverage Over Creative Capitalism)
3 CreditsMAF-MAF-Po00.18F.001
Pool IV: Bewitched. Hexenkulturen in der Gegenwartskunst Katharina Brandl
3 CreditsMAF-MAF-Po00.18F.004
Pool IX: The Arts of Prometheus: Technologies of Hubris and Liberation in Contemporary Art Rory Rowan, Donatella Bernardi
3 CreditsMAF-MAF-Po00.18F.009
Pool V: 4 x 3 Dieter Mersch, Florian Dombois, Patrick Müller, Isabel Mundry, Donatella Laura Ada Bernardi
3 CreditsMAF-MAF-Po00.18F.005
Pool VI: Artistic Research – In Practice and in Theory Giaco Schiesser, Kamran Behrouz, Marina Belobrovaja, Sasha Huber, Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Petra Köhle, Laetitia Morais, Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin, Laura von Niederhäusern, Julia Weber, Kai Ziegner
3 CreditsMAF-MAF-Po00.18F.006
Pool VIII: MATLAB. Silkscreen and kitchen to high-end lithography Dominique Lämmli.
Gastdozierende: Thomi Wolfensberger (Steindruckatelier Wolfensberger) und Denise Schwab (Werkstätte ZHdK Siebdruck). Einführungen Werkstätten ZHdK: Verantwortliche Werkstätten
3 CreditsMAF-MAF-Po00.18F.008
Pool X: Bordering Human/Natures: Political Ecology in Contemporary Art Rory Rowan
3 CreditsMAF-MAF-Po00.18F.010
Pool XI: ÜBER LEBEN – Wie leben KünstlerInnen? Erfahrungen, Haltungen, Strategien // – How do artists live? Experiences, positions, strategies Giaco Schiesser, Laura von Niederhäusern
3 CreditsMAF-MAF-Po00.18F.011
Praxis 1: "ex-ponere", Teil II Erik Steinbrecher, Laura Arici, Philip Matesic, NN
21 CreditsMAF-MAF-Pr00.18F.001
Praxis 2: Staying with the trouble, Teil II Gerald Raunig, Uriel Orlow, Claudia Kübler
21 CreditsMAF-MAF-Pr00.18F.002
Praxis 3: Open critics, Teil II Donatella Laura Ada Bernardi, Rory Rowan, Dominique Lämmli
21 CreditsMAF-MAF-Pr00.18F.003
Praxis 4: Molekulare Liebe, Teil II Christoph Schenker, Elodie Pong, Johanna Bruckner, Jonas Lund
21 CreditsMAF-MAF-Pr00.18F.004
Student Study Groups 3 CreditsMAF-MAF-Sg00.18F.001
Pool IX: The Arts of Prometheus: Technologies of Hubris and Liberation in Contemporary Art 
Rory Rowan (*1980, Belfast) is a political geographer and cultural critic. His research spans widely across critical social theory, political ecology and the environmental humanities, and currently focuses on the political and philosophical dimensions of the Anthropocene, planetary governance and the emergence of private industry in outer space. He is author with Claudio Minca of On Schmitt and Space (Routledge, 2015) and regularly contributes writing on politics, art and cultural criticism to a number of print and online publication as well as working collaboratively with artists and curators. From 2014-2017 he was a Lecturer and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Political Geography Research Unit at the University of Zurich.
| Nummer und Typ | MAF-MAF-Po00.18F.009 / Moduldurchführung |
|---|---|
| Modul | Pool |
| Veranstalter | Departement Fine Arts |
| Leitung | Rory Rowan, Donatella Bernardi |
| Anzahl Teilnehmende | maximal 15 |
| ECTS | 3 Credits |
| Voraussetzungen | Students MFA Students from other Master Programs: (Master-Platform CH) please apply via mail after February 5 to: stefanie.lanfranconi@zhdk.ch |
| Lehrform | Seminar |
| Inhalte | The mythical figure of Prometheus has recently reemerged as a key reference in discussions in contemporary art and social theory, where it is used to frame present and future relationships between technology and society, the natural world, the body, gender and the nature of the human. Yet the figure of Prometheus has been understood in radically contrasting ways. On the one hand Prometheus has been celebrated as a symbol of technology’s power to advance progress and liberate society from social and natural constraints, whilst on the other it has been used as a symbol of human hubris and a dangerously misplaced faith in technology as a means to solve problems rather than an ultimately uncontrollable tool of domination. These contending contemporary accounts of Prometheanism will serve as a lens through which to explore the various ways that contemporary artists are engaging with questions of technology and power, and how new technologies are being employed within contemporary practices in order to explore the shifting relations between the two today. The course will closely engage key theoretical texts, a selection of contemporary artists’ work, cases drawn from the student’s own practices as well as excursions to exhibitions in and around Zurich and other relevant sites. All texts will be provided ahead of course start. |
| Bibliographie / Literatur | Required • Agee, Joel (2015) ‘Introduction’ in Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus. • Kingsnorth, Paul & Hine, Dougland (2009) Uncivilization: The Dark Mountain Manifesto • Laboria Cuboniks (2015) The Xenofeminist Manifesto • Srnicek Nick & Williams, Alex (2013) The Accelerationist Manifesto • Wakefield, Stephanie (2017) ‘Field Notes from the Anthropocene: Living in the Back Loop’ Recommended • The Breakthrough Institute (2015) The Ecomodernist Manifesto • Brassier, Ray (2013) ‘On Prometheanism and its Critics’ [available on Youtube] • Hester, Helen (2017) ‘Promethean Labors and Domestic Realism’ • Toscano, Alberto (2011) ‘The Prejudice Against Prometheus’ • Tsing, Anna (2016) ‘Earth Stalked by Man’ • Zerzan, John (1997) ‘Against Technology’ |
| Leistungsnachweis / Testatanforderung | 80 % attendance active participation |
| Termine | 20. 2. / 21. 2. / 22. 2./23.2., jeweils 10.00 bis 17.00 h |
| Bewertungsform | bestanden / nicht bestanden |
