News
On January 16, 2023, Kinohi Nishikawa (Princeton University) presented his work on “Black Paratexts” at Universität Hamburg.
In the winter semester 2022/23, network members Kerstin Schankweiler and Tanja-Bianca Schmidt (with Verena Straub) organized the digital lecture series “Image Protests/Bildproteste.” Find more information here!
October 27, 2022
Kerstin Schankweiler and colleagues at the TU Dresden launched the digital research platform “Art in Networks: The GDR and its Global Relations.”
Ongoing and Upcoming Events
May 4-5, 2023, Heidelberg
Seventh Workshop, “Aesthetics, Democracy, Populism, and Resistance”
Guests: Kathrin Fahlenbrach (Hamburg), Günter Leypoldt (Heidelberg), Johannes Völz (Frankfurt)
Past Events
November 17-18, 2022, Essen
Sixth Workshop, “Aesthetic Resistance and Curatorial Practice”
Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund & Kai10 Düsseldorf
June 16-17, 2022, Berlin
Fifth Workshop, “Praxis”
Guest: Georg W. Bertram (Freie Universität Berlin)
Discussion with Eva von Redecker and members of the GRK “Normativität, Kritik, Wandel”
November 25-26, 2021 (online)
Fourth Workshop, “Affect, Aesthetics, Resistance”
Guests: Marietta Kesting (ADBK Munich), Jan Slaby (FU Berlin), Tavia Nyong’o (Yale)
July 13, 2021, 14:30-16:30, Zurich (online)
Network members Dustin Breitenwischer, Christian Krüger, Marina Martinez Mateo, Sophia Prinz, and guest Alena Strohmeier hosted and took part in the panel “Ästhetischer Widerstand: Medien des Widerstands” at the 11th Congress of the German Association of Aesthetics (DGÄ). Find the abstract of the panel here!
May 20-21, 2021, Hamburg (online)
Third Workshop, “Performance of Protest and Resistance”
Guests: Gabriele Klein (Hamburg), Oliver Marchart (Vienna), Urs Stäheli (Hamburg)
Winter 2020/21
Kerstin Schankweiler organizes the lecture series “Bildkulturen des Digitalen” (online event) at TU Dresden.
October 21-23, 2020, Dresden (online event only)
Second Workshop, “Widerstand/Resistance”
Guests: Iris Därmann (HU Berlin) & Robin Celikates (Freie Universität Berlin)
+ Virtual tour of the exhibition “1 Million Roses for Angela Davis” @ Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden; hosted by curator Kathleen Reinhardt
October 2020, Dresden
Presentation by Jasmin Wrobel, “Nepantleras: Transcultural and Intersectional Border
Thinking in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa” at the 6th Annual Conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (KWG) “B/ORDERING CULTURES: EVERYDAY LIFE, POLITICS, AESTHETICS”
February 4, 2020, Leipzig
Presentation by Jasmin Wrobel, “Graphische Narrative zum urbanen Raum in Lateinamerika” as part of the lecture series “Literatur, Kultur, Geschichte nach Schwerpunkten für Hispanisten und Lusitanisten”, Leipzig
January 30-31, 2020, Freiburg
Presentation by Dustin Breitenwischer, “‘It’s not about the pieces, it’s how the pieces work together’: Hip-Hop, Architektur und die Ästhetik urbaner Ökologie” at interdisciplinary conference “Erzählte Architektur: Trans- und intermediale Perspektiven auf das Verhältnis von Erzählen und Architektur im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert”, FRIAS, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
January 11-12, 2020, Berlin
First Workshop, “Kulturen ästhetischen Widerstands/Cultures of Aesthetic Resistance”
Guests: Juliane Rebentisch (HfG Offenbach) & Robert Reid-Pharr (Harvard)
January 9-10, 2020, Berlin
International Conference “Imagining the Black Diaspora: On the Circulation and Competition of Literary Picture-Making Across the Americas”
Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB) &
Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin
organized by network members Dustin Breitenwischer & Jasmin Wrobel
November 21-23, 2019, Berlin
“Künstlerische Praxis zwischen Autonomie und Funktionalisierung”
Abschlusskonferenz des Einstein-Forschungsvorhabens “Autonomie und Funktionalisierung der Kunst”
Charlotte-Salomon-Saal + Alte Bibliothek, Hardenbergstr. 33, 10623 Berlin
co-organized by network member Christian Krüger
DFG-Netzwerk "Cultures of Aesthetic Resistance" 