Collaborative Research Centre Intervening Arts
The arts are currently subject to increasing demands to be socially impactful. Across the globe, they are striving to change social processes, intervene in political conflicts, and create new public spheres. The arts involve themselves in conflicts over global power relations and human rights, address crises such as climate change and global pandemics, and devise new ways of living and working. Intervening arts are productive, developing new forms of activity, and not infrequently recurring to the tools of the activist. These tendencies call for a fundamental redefinition of art as an interventionist practice.
This research network combines arts-related disciplines with philosophy, history, sociology, and cultural anthropology. The CRC is based at the Free University of Berlin and works in cooperation with Humboldt University, the Berlin University of the Arts, the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), and Leuphana University in Lüneburg. The spokesperson is Prof. Dr. Jürgen Brokoff.
Grand opening of the new Collaborative Research Centre “Intervening Arts”
The celebratory opening of the new Collaborative Research Centre “Intervening Arts” takes place on October 20th at 7 pm in cooperation with the Akademie der Künste Berlin.
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Poetics of Intervention
Taking up questions raised by the opening event, the first annual conference of the CRC “Intervening Arts” on October 21st, 9 am - 5 pm, will focus on different strategies for the interference of arts in social relations. Fellows and guests scrutinize artistic models of the political.
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