Ways of Existing: Becoming-Text

The practical course references contemporary art practices from the Global South, which consider time as a medium. To write-in-time is to practice forms of historicizing that re-centre oral histories and forms of knowledge production originating outside the West. Through inventing unknowing-grammars that go beyond what is immediately decipherable or categorized at first glance, we also begin to understand institutional critique, decoloniality, feminism, and queer/black/migration identity politics as not separate “themes”, but as often overlapping and embodied ways of navigating the world, requiring various modes of marking presence. This module of experimenting aims to open up possibilities for creating what Sisanda Msimang (2017) describes as “characters that come from the future, whose tenacity resists categorization”.

The course will combine practical work with readings, group discussions, excursions, and live/zoom presentations by invited artists/historians/writers/activists.

Invited Speakers (TBC):

M. NourbeSe Philip, Jota Mombaça, Wanelisa Xaba, Tracey Rose, Nontsikelelo Mutiti,
Kiluanji Kia Henda, Khaled Barakeh.

Course readings will be supplied once registration is complete.

Spechstunden: Open to all students

Tuesdays: 14:00 – 17:00

Wednesdays: 17:00 - 19:00

Studios/Online/In-situ/Atelier 2 (aka room 2)