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Feeling in Action - Verwoert
SEMINAR 10-14, In her reflections on how politics originates in intersubjective exchanges, Hannah Arendt maintains that no one can control the magic moment of an encounter when people reveal who they are to each other in public. She develops the radical notion that the social belongs to everyone and no one, and hence can neither be objectified nor authorized and owned by anyone. In part she is picking a fight with Heidegger here who, in his rather mystical approach to the emergence of the social does give a key role to things, to art objects and authors. And Bruno Latour follows him in this respect. There is a lot at stake for art in this exchange of arguments: How do we picture the feelings that connect people? As forces that can best, if not only, be truly relayed in face to face encounters, via actions that forge an immaterial bond between you to me (much in line with the spirit of conceptual/relational art)? Or is there a particular, alternative logic to the ways in which objects can enter into our exchanges and shape them through forms of indirect communication (as more traditional notions of sculpture would also maintain)? A close reading of Arendt back to back with Heidegger/Latour will give us a more vivid idea of what is —and could be put at stake—when art enters the social sphere of intersub- and objectivity.
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Texts to read for the seminar:
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, chapter “Action”, p 175-248, 1989 (1958), University of Chicago, Chicago & London.*
Martin Heidegger, “The Thing” in Poetry Language Thought, page 165-186. (In the pdf file given here to download page 95-106). http:/www.mediafire.com/nj4he4xfgxl )
* Copy to copy at Sara Henriksen´s office, executive officer at the Dept of Fine Art.
Kurset starter 05.10.2011 / Uke 40, og varer til 05.10.2011 / Uke 40
Sted: Lecture room, Dept of Fine Art. 4th floor
Tilbyder: Akademiet
Målgruppe: Alle studenter
Årstrinn: Alle årstrinn
Antall plasser: 60
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