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Applicants should write a short email paragraph to donna.kukama@khm.de
to state why they wish to participate.
The seminar is presented in English and will continue over two semesters, beginning in the winter semester.
It is a specialist seminar, open to all students.
Typ | Anfang | Ende | Tag | Turnus | von-bis | Ort |
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25.10.23 | 24.01.24 | Mittwoch | Wöchentlich | 14:00 - 16:00 | Filzengraben 2a, Atelier 2 / room 2 |
Typ | |
Anfang | 25.10.23 |
Ende | 24.01.24 |
Tag | Mittwoch |
Turnus | Wöchentlich |
von-bis | 14:00 - 16:00 |
Ort | Filzengraben 2a, Atelier 2 / room 2 |
"(T)he political seems to have as a characteristic the quality of arranging the relationship of things and of people within some form of society. It is an ordering principle, distinguishing the lawful or authorized order of things while itself being the origin of the regulation. We associate, then, the political with power, authority, order, law, the state, force, and violence— all of these are phenomena which restrict the outcome, deflect the extraneous, limit the relevant forces."
Cedric J. Robinson, The Terms of Order
"Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. (…) Queerness is a longing that propels us onward, beyond romances of the negative and toiling in the present. Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough, that indeed something is missing." José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
It begins with desire. A desire to breathe in resonance, to search for other forms of collectivity and hospitality that could accommodate the strangeness, “extraneous” that some of us call home. This seminar offers a home that emerges from cultures of collaborative and collective practices as a refusal to bear the responsibility of a single author. To foreground syncretism is to position ourselves toward decentralized ways of (en)acting together.
What we might want to manifest time and again is “that this world is not enough, that indeed something is missing.” If queerness, as Muñoz indicates in his introduction to Cruising Utopia, must be theorized as collectivity, then mourning is, similarly, a mode of communicating or feeling-with that cannot make sense in isolation. That something is missing marks not only a radical disregard for solitary existence but also a fundamental disbelief in the metaphysics of completeness. Gone or not arrived yet, that which we mourn and makes us (home)sick, echoes our brokenness.
A (partial) selection of artist collectives:
Gugulective, Chto delat?, Keleketla! Library, Chimurenga Chronic, Ni Santas Collective, Ruangrupa, The Black Archives, MADEYOULOOK, The Bettys, Gutai Art Association, Center for Historical Reenactments, Raqs Media Collective, …
Reading List:
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, José Esteban Muñoz
Zong!, M. Nourbese Philip
“Each One Teach One; Practice-Theory-Practice; Collective Support; Mutual Respect & Equal Participation” Judy Seidman with Medu Art Ensemble in Chimurenga 15 “The Curriculum is Everything” (2010)
“MEDU: Art and Resistance in Exile by Sergio-Albio González”, in Thami Mnyele + Medu Art Ensemble Retrospective, Jacana (2009)
“What, How and for Whom (WHW), Collaborations in curating, research and writing to create translocal knowledge and experience” by Maja and Reuben Fowkes in translocal.org
Liam Gillick “Maybe it will be better if we worked in groups of three” part 1& 2 in e-flux Journal
The Production of Social Space as Artwork: Protocols of Community in the Work of Le Groupe Amos and Huit Facettes by Okwui Enwezor in “Collectivism after Modernism”
Guest Artists:
Listening at PUNGWE, Nyabhinghi Lab, Sujatro Ghosh, Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective, Jamilah Sabur, Sara Sejin Chang, Hera Schan, Jeremy (de’jon) Guyton
Sprechstunden:
Tuesdays, 14–16 h (donna Kukama)
Wednesdays, 11–13 h (Ronald Rose-Antoinette)
Studienbüro
Karin Cordes
Juliane Schwibbert
Claudia Warnecke
Heumarkt 14
50667 Köln
Tel.: +49 221 20189 - 194 /
119 / 187 / 249
Fax: +49 221 20189 - 49249
E-Mail: studoffice@khm.de
Öffnungszeiten:
Montag + Dienstag von 10 - 13 Donnerstag von 10 - 16 Uhr
Anfragen oder Termine sind auch telefonisch, Mo - Do 9:30 bis 13:00 Uhr, möglich oder per E-Mail.
Wintersemester 2024/25
Vorlesungszeit:
21.10.2024 bis 14.02.2025
Winterpause:
23.12.2024 bis 03.01.2025
Sommersemester 2025
Vorlesungszeit:
14.04. 2025 bis 25.07.2025