Kategorie-Archiv: conference///konferenz

U!RBAN Commons School

Englischsprachiger Artikel über die ‘Urban Commons School: Commoning the Post-Covid City‘ die im Rahmen unseres MA Programms im Oktober 2021 in Frankfurt statt fand. Auch verügbar auf der Website des U!REKA network.

What could urban living look line in the future?

Students and lecturers from all over Europe came together for the ‘Urban Commons School: Commoning the Post-Covid City’ in Frankfurt from 6-9 October 2021, to learn from each other and exchange perspectives on life in our future cities. This autumn school was hosted by the U!REKA Lab: Urban Commons, an interdisciplinary blended learning and research programme focusing on urban commons and other co-creation initiatives in the participating U!REKA partner cities: Amsterdam, Ghent, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Lisbon and Ostrava.

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andere räume

»andere Räume« – Performative und räumliche Strategien als kritische Praxis. 3./4. Mai 2019, Studiobühne, Neuturmstr. 5, 80331 München (Eingang am Kosttor).

Symposium des Instituts für Theaterwissenschaft der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, konzipiert und durchgeführt von Studierenden des Masterstudiengangs Theaterwissenschaft.

Neben einem spannenden Programm an Vorträgen und Präsentationen zum Thema gibt es künstlerische Arbeiten von Raul Gschrey zu sehen.

Surveillance Cultures

I will be ginbing a talk at the Workshop Symposium „Surveillance Cultures“, Giessen University, GCSC, July 06-07, 2017

Raul Gschrey (Frankfurt, Giessen): The Art of Surveillance: Contemporary Artistic Positions in Surveillance Society.

The scope and intensity of surveillance by private as well as public institutions has increased in the past decades. This has far-reaching effects on our lives and our public spaces. Along with the expansion of surveillance, in particular it’s most visible and contested aspect, Closed Circuit Television (CCTV), artistic strategies develop that explore, challenge and subvert the techniques and their ramifications. The presentation will examine contemporary artistic positions and their specific strategies in relation to what has been termed Surveillance Society.

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UTOPIA NOW! @ NTA

On Dec. 07th 2016 I will be giving a talk at the „Hogskolen i Ostfold“, the Norwegian Theatre Academy (NTA), in Frederikstadt entitled: „Performing Counter-Utopias? Artistic Practices in Spaces under Surveillance.“

The seminar UTOPIA NOW! with two other international guests is sceduled for 15.00 – 19.00 at the Norwegian Theatre Academy, Studio Blue.

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Doing Face

Eine Tagung an der Goethe-Universität nimmt unter dem Titel „Doing Face: Gesicht als Ereignis“ die unterschiedlichen Dimensionen der Gesichtlichkeit in den Fokus. Veranstalter sind das Forschungszentrum Historische Geisteswissenschaften Frankfurt und das Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin.

Das Gesicht ist die Visitenkarte des Menschen, sein Aussehen prägt den wichtigen ersten Eindruck. Das Gesicht ist die Bühne, auf der sich unsere echten Emotionen abspielen, auf der wir uns aber auch ganz bewusst inszenieren können. Auf der Theaterbühne spielt es denn auch seit jeher eine große Rolle. Die Bedeutung der „Gesichtlichkeit“ wächst jedoch noch im Zeitalter der digitalen Medien, Fachleute sprechen von der „fazialen Gesellschaft“. Eine Tagung an der Goethe-Universität nimmt unter dem Titel „Doing Face: Gesicht als Ereignis“ die unterschiedlichen Dimensionen des Themas in den Fokus. Veranstalter sind das Forschungszentrum Historische Geisteswissenschaften Frankfurt und das Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin.

Kunstgeschichte, Medienwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaften – die Konferenz bringt Vertreter verschiedener Disziplinen zusammen und bezieht auch Erkenntnisse aus anderen Wissenschaften wie der Biologie und der Psychologie mit ein. Zudem werden Bilder des weißrussischen Künstlers Maxim Wakultschik gezeigt, der sich in seinen fotografischen Arbeiten mit der Produktivität des Gesichts in der Gegenwartskultur auseinandersetzt.

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Addressing each and every one

Workshop: Addressing each and every one: Popularisation/populism through the visual arts

April 21 and 22 2016, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Main Building (Ludwigstrasse 23), 3th floor, Seminar-Raum

The workshop brings together scholars from art history, film studies, theatre studies, political theory, sociology and philosophy of religion from several European countries. It discusses the ways (iconic figurations, aesthetic styles, rhetoric figures etc.) through which visual culture addresses its audience and gets involved in the constitution of a public sphere. It is in particular interested in how the visual arts – understood as both visual popular culture as well as fine arts – becomes involved in popularisation practices and populist criticism.

The workshop approaches this subject by focusing on the central iconic figure that these practices bring into play: the “everybody” (which stands for “all of us”, but is at the same time also a “nobody”, a “common man”, a “common woman” and sometimes even a “new man” or a “new woman”). It presents spotlights of a genealogy and an iconography of the everybody and discusses political and philosophical theories about how the mediating force of this iconic figuration can be understood and valuated. In doing so, the workshop pays particular attention to the ambivalent role this figure plays, especially in most recent history, in triggering both desire and enthusiasm as well as resentment and hate.

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Law’s Pluralities

Law’s Pluralities ׀ Conference & Exhibition 06.05. – 09.05.2015

06.05. – 24.05.2015 exhibition at „Neuer Kunstverein Giessen“ & during the conference „Law’s Pluralities“ at Liebig University Giessen, Germany. Artists: Il-Jin Choi ׀ Raul Gschrey ׀ Mi You ׀ Manu Lutsch

In May 2015 the conference “Law’s Pluralities” will take place at Justus Liebig University Giessen/Germany. In a series of keynote presentations by experts and in panel sessions and discussions, as well as in an exhibition it will explore cultural constructions of law.

The interrogation of the cultural construction and negotiation of legal practices in the conference „Law’s Pluralities“ offers an interesting occasion for the presentation of an exhibition of artistic works dealing with the topic. The international artistic positions reflect on the social and legal frameworks and find means to visualise phenomena that often remain abstract. Furthermore here the artistic interventions themselves contribute to the differentiation and development of “legal writing”. Through their explorations, contestations and subversions, they participate in an alternative production of knowledge and function as mediators of and shape legal practices. The exhibition will be located at the conference venue and in the close-by “Neuer Giessner Kunstverein”, a local art association. This will expand the exhibition’s and conference’s reception towards a non-academic public open the discourse on the politically and socially relevant topic to a larger public. Among others works by Il-Jin Choi, Raul Gschrey, Mi You & Manu Luksch will be shown.

The conference and exhibition is organized at Justus Liebig University Giessen by the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) in cooperation with the  Department of English, the Rudolf-von-Jhering Institute, and in cooperation with the Neuer Kunstverein Giessen.

the end of the flagpole (landscape)

Performance by Raul Gschrey during the conference & exhibition: Material Matters in Times of Crisis Capitalism: Transnational Feminist and Decolonial Approaches, 13th – 15th November 2014, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen after the keynote of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

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Performance: Maria Cristache, Danae Gallo González & Raul Gschrey; drums: David Scheller; photos: Sandra Krorr & Raul Gschrey

Material Matters

Material Matters in Times of Crisis Capitalism: Transnational Feminist and Decolonial Approaches /// Materialität im Krisen-Kapitalismus: Transnational-Feministische und Dekoloniale
Perspektiven /// Cuestiones Materiales en Tiempos del
Capitalismo de Crisis: Enfoques transnacionales feministas y decoloniales

13th – 15th November 2014, Conference & Exhibition, Institute of Sociology, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen. Main Building
Ludwigstraße 23, 35390 Gießen

Thursday 13.11: 16.00 Conference opening ; 17.00 keynote: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 19.00 performance by Raul Gschrey & exhibition opening.

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Crisis is not exceptional in capitalism but its constant companion. It represents the foundation from which the modern/colonial world system has evolved. This conference draws on critical feminist economics and decolonial feminist thought and practice on material matters. The question of materiality has emerged as a central topic in recent years. Under the umbrella term “new materialism”, this interdisciplinary and multifaceted academic debate seems to have revived a Marxist vocabulary. Yet, the question of why “materiality” matters in times of crisis capitalism is rather absent in this debate. We are considering this question by three inter-related aims: first, to examine from transnational feminist perspectives the impact of the global crisis on people’s livelihoods; second, to explore the theoretical contributions of the triad of feminism, coloniality and political economy; and, third, to consider critical feminist economics and decolonial approaches to thinking alternative economies and convivial futures.

CALL: Law’s Pluralities

Law’s Pluralities – Cultures:Narratives:Images:Genders /// Pluralitäten des Gesetzes – Kulturen:Narrative:Bilder:Genders

6-8 May 2015: Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

In May 2015 the conference and exhibition “Law’s Pluralities” will take place at Justus Liebig University Giessen/Germany. In a series of keynote presentations by experts and in panel sessions and discussions, as well as in an exhibition it will explore cultural constructions of law. We invite academic contributions in the conference languages English and German. See the Law’s Pluralities Call for Papers.

The event is organized at Justus Liebig University Giessen by the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) in cooperation with the  Department of English, the Rudolf-von-Jhering Institute, and in cooperation with the Neue Giessener Kunstverein.