Lehre im Wintersemester 2023/24
Im Wintersemester 23/24 bietet die Professur für Theorien der Künste und Medien folgende Lehrveranstaltung an:
BA-Seminar, Sprache: Englisch, Donnerstag, 11:15 - 12:45 Uhr, GD 04
Post- and Decolonial Perspectives and Practices in Modern and Contemporary Art
In joint discussions of both canonical and recent texts from the fields of art history and criticism, philosophy, literary studies, political sciences and cultural theory, this seminar addresses the impact processes of globalization have been exerting on theories, histori(ographi)es and methods of the visual arts from the avant-garde moment of Cubism to contemporary installation art and filmic practices. On the one hand, the focus lies on transcultural and postcolonial approaches to cultural production, thanks to which the complexity of geopolitical relations, cultural exchanges, and polyvalent models of reception can be brought into view with the aim of replacing, for example, the distinction between supposed centers and peripheries and concomitant hierarchies and systems of value that have long been operative in studies of modern and contemporary art. Instead analyses of the manifold interconnections between aesthetic practices on a transnational scale as well as a recognition of phenomena of a global modernity and subsequent formations can emerge to counteract and complicate teleological narratives of Western modernism and its aftermaths. On the other hand, as the controversies surrounding the restitution of cultural assets from colonial contexts, among other discussions, make evident, our present is characterized by the urgent search for a politics of representation that integrates cosmopolitan, migrant, and diasporic aspects. These demands and poetics also call on scholarship of art and culture – not the least in light of cultural identities and artistic practices from the Global South, but also the former East under Soviet rule – to engage in a long overdue examination of the diverse colonial origins of international museums and to confront pleas for a decolonization of institutions of research, teaching, and collecting. Authors and artists that will elicit and guide such debates about the terms, narratives and concepts of modern and contemporary art history beyond a Eurocentric framework include Frantz Fanon, Éduard Glissant, Edward Said, Stuart Hall, Linda Nochlin, Fred Wilson, David Joselit, Monica Juneja, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Artur Jaffa, Rasheed Araeen, Sarat Maharaj, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lothar Baumgarten, Walter D. Mignolo, Homi K. Bhabha, Hito Steyerl, William Kentridge, Kobena Mercer, Danh Vo, Partha Mitter, Renzo Martens, Gabriel Orozco, Okwui Enwezor, Sudeep Dasgupta, Cameron Rowland, Christian Kravagna, Kader Attia, Renée Green, Isaac Julien, Nasreen Mohamedi and Yinka Shonibare.