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radical relaxation – Politiken und Ästhetiken von Access

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Subject according curriculum
Direction, dramaturgy
Teachers
Dr. Benjamin Sprick
Scope
In collaboration with Leonhard Kaiser. Wednesdays, 14-15.30, start 06.11.2024 Please register via email to Benjamin.sprick@hfmt-hamburg.de or Leonard.kaiser@hfmt-hamburg.de
Room
Wiesendamm - Raum 1.15 (Seminarraum 3)
Duration
1.5 Semesterwochenstunden
Description

Artistic concepts of "relaxed performance" and "aesthetics of accessibility" respond to a barely containable momentum of a thoroughly economized art industry that threatens to drive its institutions and the people working in them to their limits. A relentless compulsion to represent seems to have seized control, which calls for the blocking, braking and striking of attention economies. What formats can be created here, what strategies are permitted?
Based on a large number of texts that will be worked on in a specially developed 'slow methodology', the seminar asks about the horizon of a decelerated art production that will have placed an axiomatic equality of its actors at the beginning of a practice that never begins. In this way, not least the hubris of traditional artistic 'avant-gardes' is placed on the sidelines of long-gone competitive structures.

Literature

Katja Diefenbach (2014), "Unbeschäftigte Positivität. Spinoza im Postmarximus", in: Anja Lemke et al. (eds.), Kunst und Arbeit. Zum Verhältnis von Ästhetik und Arbeitsanthropologie vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Munich: Fink, pp. 25-47; Steinweg, Marcus (2020), Metaphysik der Leere, Berlin: Matthes und Seitz; Dan Goodley, Dis/ability Studies: Theorizing disablism and ableism, London: Routledge 2014.

Credits
2 Creditpoints
Comments

A comprehensive reader with texts will be made available on Moodle at the beginning of the seminar.

Modules
Modul Theorie Master Dramaturgie, Theorie 2, Wahlmodul freie Wahl (alle Studiengänge)