Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Vorlesungsverzeichnis

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Veranstaltungen von Christopher Weickenmeier

Lehrveranstaltungen

Assisting and the Arts of Services (Seminar)

Inhalt: 30 years after Andrea Fraser´s and Helmut Draxler´s seminal project “Services” at Kunstraum Lüneburg, this seminar returns to the matter of artistic labor. Haunting “Services” without ever being directly addressed, we, that is me and the dramaturge and writer Tamara Antonijevic, propose to temporarily eclipse the perspective of the artist and to focus on the usually unseen and nonetheless ubiquitous figure of the assistant, also known as the one secretly crying in the corner. Whether it is the studio of an institutionally successful painter or the provincial municipal theater, there is a reliance on poorly paid assistants and/or usually unpaid interns in order to function smoothly. Many of us have accepted those positions because we hoped that they would be ‘repaid’ in the form of professional experience and short or long term employment. By doing this work, we usually don’t have time to ask what exactly we are maintaining when we assist? Historically a feminized and racialized position, poorly paid and precarious, this kind of training through assisting - to paraphrase the philosophers Fred Moten and Stefano Harney - becomes the discipline. In recent years, a number of artists and theorists have started looking at the psycho-socially suppressed activity of assisting within the “discipline” of art. Structured around a public workshop with guests including Marina Vishmidt, Stefano Harney, Valentina Desideri, Mathilde Supe and many others, the seminar examines the work of assistance as an aesthetic experience by asking what kind of subjectivity is produced by the emotional, physical and cognitive work it requires from those who do it.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Kulturwissenschaften - Projektmodul Kunstraum