Workshop

Aesthetics & Critique VI : Realism in Perspective / Réalisme en perspective / Perspektiven des Realismus (Fribourg, 26-27.05.2023)

Back to Reality! Whether in art or philosophy, recent years have witnessed an outright run on the real, under banners such as speculative realism, neo-materialism, documentality, eco-realism, speculative poetics, or object-oriented aesthetics. Only progressively it starts to become clear that what these approaches respectively mean by realism differs sharply. The workshop shall confront various epistemic … Read moreAesthetics & Critique VI : Realism in Perspective / Réalisme en perspective / Perspektiven des Realismus (Fribourg, 26-27.05.2023)

Seminar: Aesthetics & Critique V – After Nature / (D’)après Nature / Nach der Natur

Saturday 26 November – Kunsthalle FriArt – Petites Rames, 22 – 1700 Fribourg For centuries, artists have been keen to paint from nature. What remains of this aesthetic project in a world where nature is revealed as already fully “anthropized”? What is left of nature, when it has lost the status of the Great Outdoors? … Read moreSeminar: Aesthetics & Critique V – After Nature / (D’)après Nature / Nach der Natur

Workshop: Aesthetics & Critique III (27th-28th May, 2021)

Schedule Thursday 27 May 2021 14h Ouverture EMMANUEL ALLOA 14h30-16h30. Contagion as a Metaphor / La contagion comme métaphore / Ansteckung als Metapher 14h30-14h50 DARIO GENTILI (Università Roma Tre) : From Contagion to Contagion, from Crisis to Crisis 14h50-15h10 VANESSA LEMM (Deakin U, Melbourne) : Contagion and Community of Life 15h10-15h30 Discussion 15h30-15h50 ELIZABETH POVINELLI (Columbia … Read moreWorkshop: Aesthetics & Critique III (27th-28th May, 2021)