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Dynamics of the Intransitive:Undirected Interventions
Get PDFDie Jahrestagung des SFB 1512 Intervenierende Künste ‘Dynamiken des Intransitiven. Ungerichtete Interventionen‘ widmet sich künstlerischen Verfahren und Praktiken, die keine explizite politische oder kritische Agenda verfolgen und trotzdem oder gerade daraus ihr spezifisches Interventionspotential schöpfen. Als leitende Aspekte solcher Interventionen sollen Improvisation, Eigensinn und Objektlosigkeit erkundet werden. Improvisatorische Praktiken bewegen sich spielerisch zwischen Normativität und Freiheit, setzen Impulse und bieten sie anderen Akteur*innen zur Weiterarbeit an. Eigensinn als künstlerische Haltung schafft sich innerhalb festgefügter Machtverhältnisse kreative Räume der Unterbrechung, um sich den vorgegebenen Rhythmen zu entziehen. Schließlich beziehen manche Praktiken der bildenden oder performativen Künste ihre Wirkung aus einem objektlosen Vollzug. Auch wenn diese Interventionen nicht auf ein Ziel gerichtet sind, irritieren, stören, unterbrechen sie. Ihre Verfahren sind die der Wiederholung, der Brechung und der Verschiebung. Es sind Praktiken im Vollzug, deren Beginn und Ende sich oft erst retrospektiv zeigt, die prekär bleiben und immer wieder ‘ins Rutschen‘ geraten können. Sie halten sich offen für andere und anderes – ihre intervenierende Kraft gewinnen sie aus ihrer (Dis)Kontinuität mit dem Alltäglichen und Etablierten. Die Jahrestagung eröffnet den Dialog zwischen Kunstschaffenden, Wissenschaftler*innen und der Öffentlichkeit, durch Performances, Vorträge und Diskussionen und in geteilten Erfahrungsräumen.
Donnerstag, 9. Nov 2023
9:30 – 10:00 Begrüßung durch Jürgen Brokoff, Grit Dommes und Tim Lörke 10:00 – 11:15 Judith Siegmund: Intervenieren versus Herstellen? Alte und neue Konzepte künstlerischer Praxis Moderation: Susanne Hauser 11:15 – 11:45 Kaffeepause 11:45 – 13:00 Bertram Lomfeld: Intransitive Institutionalisierung: Rechte der Natur Moderation: Matthias Warstat 13:00 – 14:00 Mittagessen im ICI Berlin 14:00 – 16:00 fem_arc: F_WALKS – emanzipatorische Stadtspaziergänge und Diskussion Vorstellung: Eva-Maria Ciesla Für die Stadtspaziergänge mit fem_arc stehen schon vormittags Audioguides zum Download auf das eigene Smartphone in den Versionen Deutsch/Englisch und Englisch zur Verfügung. Bitte eigene Kopfhörer mitbringen. 16:00 – 16:30 Kaffeepause 16:30 – 17:45 Sue Spaid: The Wilfull Artist: Getting it Built (EN) Moderation: Eva Backhaus 17:45 – 19:00 Empfang im ICI Berlin External Venue: Volksbühne – Roter Salon 20.00 – 21.30 Interwoven Sound Spaces With: Robert Ek, Cosima Gerhardt, Berit Greinke, Stefan Östersjö, Mattias Petersson, Federico Visi Moderation: Ariane Jeßulat www.volksbuehne.berlin
Freitag, 10.Nov 2023
10:00 – 11:15 Literatur und ungerichtete Intervention: Lesung und Diskussion mit Heike Geißler Moderation: Jürgen Brokoff und Andrea Schütte 11:15 – 11:45 Kaffeepause 11:45 – 13:00 Alice Lagaay: (Just) Life…Becoming Philosophy? (EN) Moderation: Eva Backhaus 13:00 – 14:15 Mittagspause zur freien Verfügung 14:15 – 15:30 Scheiter eiGEnSiNn Umpruvusutuun – try again Podium des SFB 1512 mit Eva Backhaus, Andrea Schütte, Sophie Schultze-Allen, Mimmi Woisnitza Moderation: Simon Teune 15:30 – 16:00 Kaffeepause 16:00 – 17:15 Mateja Bučar: Inter-ventions! / Dancers Without Answers Presentation and Conversation with Gabriele Brandstetter (EN) External Venue: Pfefferberg Haus 13 17:30 – 19:00 Daily Dynamics: Bodies and Voices as Absence/Presence Performance / Conversation / Reading. With: Brandon LaBelle, Oxana Chi, Doris Kolesch, Layla Zami 19:00 – 20:00 freitagsküche 20:00 – 24:00 Abschlussparty mit den DJs Calamidades Lola und Radio VampiroSFB 1512 Intervenierende Künste, FU BerlinDie Abendveranstaltungen finden extern statt: Am 9. November, um 20:00 Uhr, in der Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Roter Salon, Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin. Tickets gibt es hier. Am 10. November, um 17:30 Uhr, in Haus 13 Pfefferberg, Christinenstr. 18/19, 10119 Berlin.The annual conference of the collaborative research centre Intervening Arts (SFB 1512) ‘Dynamics of the Intransitive: Undirected Interventions’, is dedicated to artistic procedures and practices that do not pursue an explicit political or critical agenda but that nevertheless, or precisely as a result, draw forth their specific potential for intervention. As guiding aspects of such interventions, improvisation, obstinacy, and objectlessness will be explored. Improvisational practices move playfully between normativity and freedom, setting impulses and offering them to other actors for further work. Obstinacy, as an artistic attitude, develops creative spaces of interruption within firmly established power relations in order to escape pregiven rhythms. Finally, some practices of the visual or performative arts derive their effect from an objectless execution. Even if these interventions are not directed towards a goal, they irritate, disturb, interrupt. Their procedures are those of repetition, refraction, and displacement. They are practices in execution — the beginning and end of which often become apparent only retrospectively — that remain precarious and can ‘slip’ again and again. They keep themselves open to others and other things; they gain their intervening power from their (dis)continuity with the every-day and the established. The annual conference opens dialogue between artists, scholars, and the public through performances, lectures, and discussions and in shared experiential spaces.
Donnerstag, 9. Nov 2023
9:30 – 10:00 Begrüßung durch Jürgen Brokoff, Grit Dommes und Tim Lörke 10:00 – 11:15 Judith Siegmund: Intervenieren versus Herstellen? Alte und neue Konzepte künstlerischer Praxis Moderation: Susanne Hauser 11:15 – 11:45 Kaffeepause 11:45 – 13:00 Bertram Lomfeld: Intransitive Institutionalisierung: Rechte der Natur Moderation: Matthias Warstat 13:00 – 14:00 Mittagessen im ICI Berlin 14:00 – 16:00 fem_arc: F_WALKS – emanzipatorische Stadtspaziergänge und Diskussion Vorstellung: Eva-Maria Ciesla Für die Stadtspaziergänge mit fem_arc stehen schon vormittags Audioguides zum Download auf das eigene Smartphone in den Versionen Deutsch/Englisch und Englisch zur Verfügung. 16:00 – 16:30 Kaffeepause 16:30 – 17:45 Sue Spaid: The Wilfull Artist: Getting it Built (EN) Moderation: Eva Backhaus 17:45 – 19:00 Empfang im ICI Berlin External Venue: Volksbühne – Roter Salon 20.00 – 21.30 Interwoven Sound Spaces Moderation: Ariane Jeßulat
Freitag, 10. Nov 2023
10:00 – 11:15 Literatur und ungerichtete Intervention: Lesung und Diskussion mit Heike Geißler Moderation: Jürgen Brokoff und Andrea Schütte 11:15 – 11:45 Kaffeepause 11:45 – 13:00 Alice Lagaay: (Just) Life…Becoming Philosophy? (EN) Moderation: Eva Backhaus 13:00 – 14:15 Mittagspause zur freien Verfügung 14:15 – 15:30 Scheiter eiGEnSiNn Umpruvusutuun – try again Podium des SFB 1512 mit Eva Backhaus, Andrea Schütte, Sophie Schultze-Allen, Mimmi Woisnitza Moderation: Simon Teune 15:30 – 16:00 Kaffeepause 16:00 – 17:15 Mateja Bučar: Inter-ventions! / Dancers Without Answers Presentation and Conversation with Gabriele Brandstetter (EN) External Venue: Pfefferberg Haus 13 17:30 – 19:00 Daily Dynamics: Bodies and Voices as Absence/Presence Performance / Conversation / Reading 19:00 – 20:00 freitagsküche 20:00 – 24:00 Abschlussparty mit den DJs Calamidades Lola und Radio VampiroSFB 1512 Intervening Arts, FU BerlinPlease note that the evening event on 9 November at 20:00 will take place at Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Roter Salon, Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin. You can purchase tickets here. The evening event on 10 November at 17:30 will take place in house #13 Pfefferberg, Christinenstr. 18/19, 10119 Berlin
Spatial Figures in the Anthropocene
Get PDFThe symposium and annual conference of the CRC 1265, ‘Spatial Figures in the Anthropocene’, explores how the concept and reality of the Anthropocene disfigure and refigure four key spatial figures of Western modernity: the place, the territory, the network, and the route. Engagements with climate change and the planetary in the social sciences and humanities have challenged conventional analytical distinctions between global and local as well as human and nonhuman spaces. Tim Morton’s (2013) influential conceptualization of global warming as a hyperobject emphasizes how it transcends human scales of time-space experience and action, thus becoming a viscous, non-local process. At the same time, authors like Bruno Latour (2017) point out the inadequacy of the modern figure of globalization and of understanding the Earth as a globe. In times of climate crisis, he argues, the Earth emerges as Gaia: not a super-organism or system, but rather a rhizome of organism-environment relationships. As these two interventions exemplify, the multiple environmental and planetary crises associated with the Anthropocene fundamentally challenge the scalar logic and figures of modern understandings of space. Facilitating an interdisciplinary conversation about these transformations seems crucial because of the pervasiveness of spatial categories and imaginaries. The symposium thus brings together leading scholars from anthropology, sociology, architectural theory, science and technology studies, urban studies, and human geography to collectively meet these challenges while reaching a heterogeneous public audience of researchers and practitioners
An Atlas of Spatial Figures
No full textAn Atlas of Spatial Figures is the title of a forthcoming book edited by urban anthropologist Ignacio Farías (HU Berlin), sociologist Silke Steets (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), and visual artist Nikolaus Gansterer (Vienna) for the CRC 1265. It addresses methodological questions of how current interdisciplinary research can be designed to ‘figure out spaces’ and analyze the contemporary refiguration of spaces. ‘Figuring out spaces’ is an intellectual and artistic practice of exploring, describing, and visualizing spatial figures that shape how we live, work, and dream. It entails moving between (more concrete) topographic and (more abstract) topological figures of space. It combines conceptual work and methodological reflection with storytelling, visualization, and choreographic translations. The book presentation includes a collection of around 45 spatial stories, each drawing on a topographic figure of space as well as sixteen table configurations encompassing drawings, materials, objects and gestures. In this way, four important processes of the refiguration of spaces are illuminated as they are experienced, imagined, and discussed by people, revolving around problems of extimacy, uninhabitability, ferality, and splintering. Ignacio Farías is Professor of Urban Anthropology of the department of European Ethnology, co-director of the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology and PI of the ERC project WAVEMATTERS. His research interests concern current ecological and infrastructural transformations of cities and the associated epistemo-political challenges to the democratization of city-making. His most recent work explores the politics of environmental disruptions, from tsunamis over heat to noise. He is also interested in urban ethnography as a mode of city making performed with designers, initiatives, concerned groups, policy makers and by moving from textual to material productions. Silke Steets is Professor of Sociology at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her research interests include urban sociology, sociology of space and architecture, sociology of religion, qualitative research methods, and sociological theory. She was a research fellow at Boston University in 2012 and held a DFG-Heisenberg fellowship from 2017 to 2019, which took her to the University of Leipzig and the University of Texas at Dallas. In addition to numerous publications, she is the author of the monograph Der sinnhafte Aufbau der gebauten Welt (2015), in which she develops a theory of architecture based on the sociology of knowledge. More information at: www.silke-steets.de Nikolaus Gansterer is an artist and researcher interested in the links between drawing, thinking, and action. Since 2007 he is teaching at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna where he is board member of the Applied Performance Laboratory. He is author of the book Drawing a Hypothesis (2013) on the ontology of diagrammatic configurations. From 2014-2018, he was involved in developing new systems of notation between drawing, writing, and choreography within the interdisciplinary research project Choreo-graphic Figures. Since 2019-2024, he is the leading researcher of the artistic project Contingent Agencies for experimental diagramming of atmospheres and environments. www.gansterer.or
Surrogate Reasoning:An Artefactual Approach
Get PDFScientific practice revolves around an amazing variety of constructed objects rendered by different representational tools and media. These objects enable inferences concerning the natural and social phenomena in which scientists are interested. Philosophical discussion has approached the epistemic uses of such artefacts in terms of surrogate reasoning. Although this discussion has been insightful, it has remained limited in scope in that it has tended to fuse surrogate reasoning with representation. Roughly put, models have been taken as representations, and model-based representation has been analyzed in terms of surrogate reasoning. Such an understanding of surrogate reasoning latches onto the representational relationship between a model and a target, with the model acting as a surrogate for some identifiable target system. Knuuttila argues for an alternative artefactual approach that widens the discussion of surrogate reasoning beyond representation and modelling by covering: various kinds of scientific constructs; the different analogical and other relations among such objects; the relations between such objects and the features of natural and social systems. She uses examples from synthetic biology and economics to exemplify the artefactual approach to surrogate reasoning. Tarja Knuuttila is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Vienna. Previously she was Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina (USA). She holds Master’s degrees in Economics (Helsinki School of Economics) and in Social and Moral Philosophy (University of Helsinki), and a PhD in Theoretical Philosophy (University of Helsinki). She served as the Editor-in-Chief of Science & Technology Studies (2007–10) and spent 2009–10 as Visiting Research Associate at the California Institute of Technology. Knuuttila’s research is focused on scientific representation and modelling. Her approach is comparative: she has studied modelling in neuroscience, economics, and ecology, as well as in both systems and synthetic biology. Knuuttila also utilizes empirical studies as part of her philosophical agenda. She has published in numerous collections and journals, including British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science, Erkenntnis, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Synthese, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, The Monist, and Science & Technology Studies.