Vortrag MUK meets IFK: Norbert Trawöger »Nichts spielen«
Wir spielen Ball, Flöte, Roulette oder die Heldin. Die Zeit spielt uns in die Hände, wieder andere spielen auf Zeit. »Er will ja nur spielen«, heißt es, wenn die Lage scheinbar ungefährlich ist. Der Musiker Norbert Trawöger bringt John Cages »4’33’’« als radikale Komposition ins Spiel, um sich diesem von vielen Seiten zu nähern. Es kann um nichts gehen, aber nicht um weniger.
Für die Maus ist die Freundschaft mit der Krähe eine sehr riskante Angelegenheit, die nur mit Klugheit gelingen kann. So suggeriert es die Fabel aus dem altindischen »Pañcatantra«. Doch geht es hier nicht (nur) um Tierbeziehungen, sondern auch um die Geschichte der bürgerlichen Erziehung sowie der nationalen Selbstbestimmung in Indien.
Maria Lassnig malt Tiere, viele Tiere. In allen Medien, Notizen und Gesprächen finden sich Beispiele der tiefen Auseinandersetzung Lassnigs mit dem tierlichen Gegenüber. Diesen Tieren eignet eine ähnliche Mischung aus Nähe und Alterität wie der Selbsterfahrung des Leibes – sie stehen in Verbindung mit dem Lassnigs Werk überspannenden Komplex des Körpergefühls.
A study of Austrian composer Hanns Eisler’s »Deutsche Sinfonie« can help us understand how European artists responded to the atrocities of WWII concentration camps. As a cultural historian, Kenneth Marcus places this interdisciplinary study in historical context to examine why Eisler created this work and the significance that this work has for human rights today.
Plants have recently come to the fore in the humanities where the interest in the non-human fostered by ecocriticism, animal studies, and posthumanism has shifted to the vegetal. With increasing urgency, plants, their agency, and their cultural/natural impact are being studied by literary and cultural scholars. In order to radically rethink the status of the vegetal, this workshop investigates the place of plants in philosophy and literature, addressing both specific sites of the vegetal (such as the earth, the garden, or the middle) as well as the role of plants for our understanding of human-nature relations in the age of the so-called anthropocene. Particular emphasis will be placed upon questions of scale from an all-encompassing “planthroposcene” (proposed by anthropologist Natasha Myers) to minuscule parts of plants as a place for reflection in order to conceptualize the specific spatio-theoretical dimensions of the vegetal.
Plants have recently come to the fore in the humanities where the interest in the non-human fostered by ecocriticism, animal studies, and posthumanism has shifted to the vegetal. With increasing urgency, plants, their agency, and their cultural/natural impact are being studied by literary and cultural scholars. In order to radically rethink the status of the vegetal, this workshop investigates the place of plants in philosophy and literature, addressing both specific sites of the vegetal (such as the earth, the garden, or the middle) as well as the role of plants for our understanding of human-nature relations in the age of the so-called anthropocene. Particular emphasis will be placed upon questions of scale from an all-encompassing “planthroposcene” (proposed by anthropologist Natasha Myers) to minuscule parts of plants as a place for reflection in order to conceptualize the specific spatio-theoretical dimensions of the vegetal.
Plants have recently come to the fore in the humanities where the interest in the non-human fostered by ecocriticism, animal studies, and posthumanism has shifted to the vegetal. With increasing urgency, plants, their agency, and their cultural/natural impact are being studied by literary and cultural scholars. In order to radically rethink the status of the vegetal, this workshop investigates the place of plants in philosophy and literature, addressing both specific sites of the vegetal (such as the earth, the garden, or the middle) as well as the role of plants for our understanding of human-nature relations in the age of the so-called anthropocene. Particular emphasis will be placed upon questions of scale from an all-encompassing “planthroposcene” (proposed by anthropologist Natasha Myers) to minuscule parts of plants as a place for reflection in order to conceptualize the specific spatio-theoretical dimensions of the vegetal.
Der Einfluss der mongolischen »Fremdherrschaft« während der Yuan-Dynastie (1271–1368) auf Chinas Selbstverständnis ist unbestreitbar: Zum ersten Mal in seiner Geschichte wurde China de facto – nicht nur in der Imagination – Zentrum eines Weltreiches. Kein Wunder also, dass wir Auswirkungen in den folgenden Perioden und bis heute beobachten können.
Sending a good-morning greeting with a bouquet of flowers; getting tattoos together; sharing recipes: digital media are crucial for such everyday activities that keep families and friends together when they are separated by forced migration. Validating this, a Syrian woman told me: »I would be nothing without my smartphone«.
Wenngleich die Erforschung des zirkumpolaren Schamanismus bereits im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert mit der Nobilitierung »anderer Zustände« einhergegangen war, fällt ein großer Teil seiner Faszinationsgeschichte in die Zeit nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.