WS 2010/2011, room 115, Guestprofessor: Angela Melitopoulos

NEXT WEEK

October 25^th , 4-7pm

First Roundtable: Janine Jambere presents two of her projects.

Allied presentation: Yara Spaett. Questions by Anna Tautfest.

October 26^th, 2-6 pm,

Seminar/Introduction

!!! We meet in the art gallery ‘Gentili Apri’, Schöneberger Ufer 69!!!

(http://gentiliapri.com/)

Seminar about the project Assemblages - an audiovisual research project by Angela Melitopoulos and Maurizio Lazzarato on Félix Guattari and his revolutionary psychiatric practice, his political activism as well as his ideas concerning ecosophy and interest in animism, especially in the Brazilian and Japanese context.

WS 2010/2011 Heterotopies

Heterotopies are spaces without place or histories without chronology. Heterotopies are universes that might be impossible to trace on a map because the do not belong to a place. They are born in our heads, in the cut up of our words, in non-places, dreams or, as Foucault said, "out of the sweetness of our utopies“. But they have a reality, a determined time, they can be fixed and measured on a map or in a calender. Foucaults' concept of heterotopies largely influenced theories on mobility and migration.

We will discuss the subject in relation to videos that focus on subjectivity and mobility (films and video works by Brigitta Kuster, Ursula Biemann, Lisl Ponger, Jem Cohen, Eyal Sivan, Alessandro Sambini, Bouba Touré, Phillipe Scheffner, Chantal Akermann, MariaGiovanna Nuzzi, and others.)

Round Tables/Reading Groups/Open Source Meetings :

Every week on Monday, 4-7 pm, room 115, (not on the 22. 11 and 3.1)

Seminars

Every Tuesday, 3 – 6 pm, room 115, weekly (not on the 3.11 and 23.11)

NOVEMBER (UPDATE FOLLOWS)

2nd November, room 115, 3-6 pm

Ground Zero One - preliminary discussion

A preliminary discussion for setting up and structuring topics for the first meeting of the platfrom ’Ground Zero One’ for communicating and exchanging information collectively. What is urgent to find out about the institution you are working in ? Yara Spaett will collect all questions.

8^th of November, room 115, 4-7 pm

Ground Zero One is a new format for class meetings in the WS 2010. We try together to open, deepen and share information without being interfaced by screens.

Solidarity instead of competition is the motto of Ground Zero One.