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Seminar: Jan Verwoert - Feeling in Action
In her reflections on how politics originates in intersubjective exchanges, Hannah Arendt maintains that noone 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 noone, 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 communciation (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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Kurset starter 21.09.2011 / Uke 38, og varer til 21.09.2011 / Uke 38
Sted: Auditorium 4 etg.
Tilbyder: Akademiet
MÃ¥lgruppe: Akademiet
Årstrinn: Alle årstrinn
Antall plasser: 15
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