Vorlesungsverzeichnis

The project aims to enable the participants to experience foreign realities. In addition, it strives for a critical examination of social media and digital means of communication, which are ever-present in our daily lives and shape our ways of thinking and acting. It attempts to turn this issue into an encounter and a reflection space through artistic exploration. The participants will deal theoretically and practically with post_colonialism and "globalization", as well as artistic work in a social context and participation in contemporary art.
The title refers to the concept of Mary Louise Pratt's "The Contact Zone" (1991), originally developed for the linguistics, now also discussed in the human sciences, in the context of feminist theory, critical race theory, post-colonial theory and critical pedagogy, which provides a social space for linguistic and cultural encounters in which power is negotiated. Pratt's "Contact Zone" is a place of transculturality, critical engagement with the community, critical pedagogy, authethnography, criticism, discussion and resistance to hegemony.