HKB / Back to the Future, or the Future of Seeing Differently Forschungstoolbox zum Jahresthema 

Campus Wahlmodul / Master Class / Kursangebot der Partnerschule (HKB)

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Nummer und TypMTH-MTH-WPM-02.23H.009 / Moduldurchführung
ModulMaster-Campus-Theater-CH 02 ECTS 
VeranstalterDepartement Darstellende Künste und Film
LeitungVerantwortlich: Y-Institut
Dozierende: Hanna B. Hölling (Dozentin Konservierung und Restaurierung HKB), Johannes M. Hedinger (Künstler, Kurator, Zürich)
Zeit
OrtOstermundigenstrasse 103 und externe Standorte individueller Forschung
Anzahl Teilnehmendemaximal 4
ECTS2 Credits
VoraussetzungenResearch – Code: MYY T109
ZielgruppenStudierende Expanded Theater haben Vorrang
Inhalte… your future hasn’t been written yet, no one’s has. Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one.
Doc Brown in the final scene Back to the Future 3, 1990

In the common use of the word, the future is the time that will come after the present, or the events that will take part therein. While abstaining from facts, the future carries conjectures, estimates, guesses and predictions. It also holds infinite potential and power. When we find ourselves searching for meaning amidst the struggles with the present, we turn and look to a future, always better and bright. But what is the future? Where does the future come from, and what does it mean? How can we imagine future? To venture down this path, we need to think about time in a different way than as a mechanistic measurement of time with clocks and calendars.

This module takes on the idea of the future from the perspectives of art, (pop) culture, philosophy and science. The questions we will pose include: How have people, and especially artists and creators, engaged with the concept of the future from the historical avant-gardes to the twenty-first century? How do futurology, futurism and science fiction help us see the future by producing anticipatory knowledge and expectations, hopes and fears? How does the future relate to eternity, the afterlife, metaphysics and spacetime? In artistic practice and narration, what tools and media do we need to imagine, grasp, tell, mediate and communicate the future? How can we see the future differently, for instance through queer philosophy and alternatively able bodies, and what is the future of seeing differently?

Using the knowledge acquired from the introductory lecture, group discussions and selected readings, the participants will be sent out to explore future projections, aesthetics and psychologies. We will use the future tense, draft clairvoyant projections of the future, draw Tarot cards, reflect critically on technological progress and environmental trends and finally write/compose/draft a concept for a different future.

A major part of the week will be devoted to the participants’ own artistic practice and research. Individually or in collaboration, each participant will develop his/her own project: an audio-visual performance or object-based work, a textual intervention or a mini research project. Mentoring in both artistic practice (Hedinger) and theory (Hölling) will be offered. The final day of the course will see the presentation of all projects, concluded by peer feedback. This seminar is open to students from the visual arts, music, theatre, performance and literature.
Termine13.-17.11.2023
Dauer9:30-16:30 Uhr
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SpracheEnglisch