CCS Colloquium – Christoper Weikenmeier
11. Jun
Colloquium
6:15 - 7:45 pm, C40.530
The Center for Critical Studies colloquium takes place three times per semester and gives CCS members the opportunity to present and discuss ongoing research and writing projects.
In this session, Christopher Weikenmeier will hold give a talk with the following title: "Death is not Enough". Institutionality and Death in Contemporary Art.
"Drawing on recent work by artists Ima-Abasi Okon and Ligia Lewis, the presentation will consider aesthetic strategies of staging deadness and dying that are specific to and contingent upon the institution. As the continued use of the metaphor of the dead institution (most likely originating in G.W.F. Hegel's early theological writings) suggests, the institution and death rarely coincide; both the institution and death tend to survive themselves. While it is usually assumed that the deadness of an institution is nothing more than an index of its failure (as a crisis of its legitimacy), recent art practices of 'deadening' the institution point towards the institution as an advantageous site for engaging with the necropolitical perforation of contemporary life."
The Center for Critical Studies colloquium is organised by Heiko Stubenrauch and Anne Gräfe. This session will take place in English.
Website: https://www.leuphana.de/zentren/center-for-critical-studies/kolloquium.html
Kontakt: heiko.stubenrauch@leuphana.de