DIG Pool 4: Art & PhD (gLV) Laura von Niederhäusern
together with the members of the practice-based PhD group:
Viviana Gonzalez, Bernhard Herbordt & Melanie Mohren, Sasha Huber, Eirini Sourgiadaki
3 CreditsMFA-MFA-Po00.21F.004
HYB Practice 1: Poetry in Action Nils Röller, Lorenza Longhi, Nina Kerschbaumer
21 CreditsMFA-MFA-Pr00.21F.001
HYB Practice 2: Draw a Map to Get Lost Swetlana Heger-Davis, Mitchell Anderson, Pascal Sidler
21 CreditsMFA-MFA-Pr00.21F.002
HYB Practice 3: A World of Many Worlds – Approaching the Planetary (Teil ll) Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Hübler, Pascal Sidler
21 CreditsMFA-MFA-Pr00.21F.003
HYB Practice 4: The Uncanny in Nature Una Alja Szeemann, Laura Arici, Nina Kerschbaumer
21 CreditsMFA-MFA-Pr00.21F.004
HYB Practice 5: Ghostly Matters: The Archival Edition Uriel Orlow, Christoph Schenker, Rabea Ridlhammer
21 CreditsMFA-MFA-Pr00.21F.005
HYB Practice 6: Virtual Tendencies and Postdigital Relationalities Marie-France Rafael, Doireann O'Malley, Rabea Ridlhammer
21 CreditsMFA-MFA-Pr00.21F.006
LOC Technology 2: Introduction Fotocluster Jyrgen Ueberschär, Conradin Frei
1 CreditMFA-MFA-Te.21F.002
HYB Practice 3: A World of Many Worlds – Approaching the Planetary (Teil ll) 
| Nummer und Typ | MFA-MFA-Pr00.21F.003 / Moduldurchführung |
|---|---|
| Modul | Practice: |
| Veranstalter | Departement Fine Arts |
| Leitung | Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Hübler, Pascal Sidler |
| Anzahl Teilnehmende | maximal 8 |
| ECTS | 21 Credits |
| Voraussetzungen | Course language: English |
| Lehrform | Seminar, individual and group tutorials, guest lectures, excursions (if possible) |
| Zielgruppen | MA Fine Arts students (recommended for the participants in the fall semester and for new students) Open for exchange students |
| Lernziele / Kompetenzen | This seminar will explore artistic techniques and formats of research in translocal and postcolonial contexts. It examines and discusses actively with students contemporary artistic projects who engage in, encounter and exhibit in contexts of a planetary scale - mutual dependencies between multiple multi-ethnic, bio-cultural, geopolitical and techno-ecological processes. Through the study of specific methods (e.g. critical fabulating, speculative worldings) with a focus on mediality and digitality, students will be able to assess these positions and formats and relate them to their own artistic work. |
| Inhalte | This seminar explores the aesthetic, emotional, and ethical transformations in an era of desires and urgencies for planetary response-abilities. It looks for artistic practices dealing with complex entities and processes on multiple scales —from nano particles to forests to hyper objects and its computations—as well as affects and doings out of anguish and devastation.
Heterogeneous worldings coming together as an ecology of divergent practices, negotiating their difficult being together: How to become situated in a moment when the nonliving erupts into our spaces, transforming itself from a background to something that makes demands on us? How to live with biological agents, animists, viruses and deserts? How to be attentive to practices that make worlds even if they do not satisfy our demand (of modern epistemology) to prove their reality? It becomes a matter of how to create modes of listening and encounter, a thinking in and aside the presence of states of affairs rather than about them, resisting the violence of subsumption and appropriation. About the lecturers: knowbotiq (Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Huebler) has been experimenting with forms and medialities of knowledge, political representations and epistemic disobedience. In recent projects they are investigating and enacting inhuman geographies with the focus on algorithmic governmentalities, libidinous and affective economies and postcolonial violence. Projects: Thulhu Thu Thu, before the sun harms you, knowbotiq.net/thulhu/. Genesis Machines: knowbotiq.net/genesis-machine and Swiss Psychotropic Gold: knowbotiq.net/psychogold/ Pascal Sidler is a painter, currently working as a teaching assistant at the MA Fine Arts. His paintings are often based on photographs from everyday life. His work has been shown in various exhibitions, including “European Southern Observatory”, Hamlet in Zürich (2019). In 2019 he was the recipient of the Grant of the City of Zurich and in 2013 of the Grant of the Canton of Zurich. |
| Bibliographie / Literatur | The seminar will put the master student practices in relation with contemporary art practices and discourses interrogating the Planetary (Black Quantum Futurism, Carolina Caycedo, Karrabing Film Collective, Pedro Neves Marques, Astrida Neimanis, Timothy Morton, Ana Tsing, Bruno Latour, Ann Sophie Springer, Edoardo Viveros de Castro, N.K. Jesimin, Eugene Thacker). |
| Leistungsnachweis / Testatanforderung | Mandatory attendance (minimum 80%); active participation; semester report |
| Termine | Time: 10:00 - 18:00 o'clock CW 09: 01 / 02 / 03 / 04 / 05 March CW 15: 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 April Critiques: CW 15: 15 / 16 April |
| Bewertungsform | bestanden / nicht bestanden |
