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 X: Bordering Human/Natures: Political Ecology 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.010 / Moduldurchführung |
|---|---|
| Modul | Pool |
| Veranstalter | Departement Fine Arts |
| Leitung | Rory Rowan |
| Zeit | |
| Anzahl Teilnehmende | maximal 18 |
| 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 | This course seeks to examine the various ways in which the relationship between humans and the natural world is conceived and constructed today, and how these conceptions and constructions are coming under pressure from planetary environmental change and rapidly transforming social dynamics. The course explores how contemporary artists have explored the political and ecological stakes of these shifting boundaries. It pays particular attention to how the borders between humans and nature are produced, practiced and enforced on the one hand, whilst blurred, undermined and exceeded on the other. Crucially it seeks to examine how these human-nature borders are wrapped back into the ‘body politic’ along the axes of race, gender and colonial histories. The course will explore these questions through a deep engagement with the work of contemporary artists in order to examine how their work has contributed to understanding these topics. It will also critically engage with a number of recent international exhibitions and curatorial initiatives relevant to these themes. The course will closely engage key theoretical texts, a selection of contemporary artists’ work, cases drawn from recent exhibition history, the student’s own practices as well as excursions to exhibitions in and around Zurich and other relevant sites. All texts will be supplied before class start. |
| Bibliographie / Literatur | Required • Büscher, Bram (2016). “Rhino poaching is out of control!” Violence, Race and the Politics of Hysteria in Online Conservation.’ Environment and Planning A. • de la Cadena, Marisol (2015) Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds. [extracts to be confirmed] • Haraway, Donna (2015) ‘Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin.’ Environmental Humanities. • Nixon, Rob (2011) ‘Epilogue: Scenes from the Seabed: The Future if Dissent’ in Slow Violence & the Environmentalism of the Poor by Rob Nixon. • Orff, Kate (2010) 'Reviving New York's River - with Oysters' TED Talk [available on Youtube] Recommended • Alaimo, Stacy (2010) Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self. [extracts to be confirmed] • Li, Tania (2014) Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier. [extracts to be confirmed] • Merchant, Carolyn (1980) The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. [extracts to be confirmed] • Webb, Zach (2017) ‘An Uneven Disaster: Q & A with Ashley Dawson.’ The Baffler. |
| Leistungsnachweis / Testatanforderung | 80 % attendance Active participation Preparing short presentation / response to text or artwork |
| Termine | 22. 5. / 23. 5. /24. 5. / 25. 5., jeweils 10.00 bis 17.00 Uhr |
| Bewertungsform | bestanden / nicht bestanden |
