Documentation

12.1.2023 Workshop | Flyer | Booklet
Critique Now. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Critical Practices
Gäste: Isabelle Graw (Städelschule, Frankfurt), Orit Halpern (TU Dresden) und Nishant Shah (ArtEZ University of the Arts, The Netherlands)

In recent years, different developments have challenged the concept of critique. On the one hand, new technologies and modes of distribution have given rise to a large number of new practices of expressing dissent, discomfort and objection whose criticality needs to be clarified in each case. On the other hand, postcolonial, decolonial, and transcultural perspectives have problematized fundamental assumptions about critique rooted in the Enlightenment. These developments raise new questions about the validity claims, situatedness, and subjects of critique.

We invited international scholars from various academic disciplines to address these questions against the background of their own research. Their contributions will be the starting point of discussions about a contemporary concept of critique among the third generation of PhD students of the Research Training Group Cultures of Critique. As with this event we would like to welcome the new fellows and say goodbye to the parting group.