Surveillant Architectures

Dienstag, 19.00 - 21.00 h und
Mittwoch, 10.30 - 13.30 Uhr
Filzengraben 2a, Atelier 2 + Aula

Center for Public Practice (CfPP) Advanced Studies

Seminar for working in public space. This seminar will include postproduction discussion and critique. The semester continues with projects for vogelsang, the former national socialist military school and now new nature park in the Eifel. Topics include-resisting the activity of forgetting; how a media work handles intense memory; pandemonium; amusement; and secrecy.
Panel discussions: identifying critical public dialogues; new forms and concepts for public space; unpacking assumptions about “dark tourism”; and speculation and societal expectations of youth.
Writing activity.
Readings in:
Miwon Kwon “Geneology of Site Specificity, One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity” and “Public Art as Publicity” in “In the Place of the Public Sphere?”
Reading packet handout

Exkursionen:
vogelsangIP
Pelco Camera headquarters
„Toxic Tour“

Reading Circle “Art and Politics”
Prof. Julia Scher Kooperationspartner: The University of Köln
Wednesday 14.30 - 15.30 h + other hours to be arranged
Filzengraben 2, room2, and Uni-Köln- to be arranged

Topics covered can include “what is the relation of politics, art, and truth?” Two student based groups, one in English, one Deutsch.