After successful completion of the course, students are able to precisely locate current artistic approaches in the larger reference field of visual culture and to make fruitful use of the expertise gained in dialogue with the teaching and learning environment of art universities.
The cosmopolitical Garden:
The history of botany, gardens, and greenhouses has always established hierarchies between plant species and genres. From a political standpoint, these taxonomies manifest the human capacity to colonize and exploit the wealth of others, ranking certain species as more productive, more beautiful or more exotic than others, and importing them from all corners of the world. The Plantiatocene invites us to explore the relations between such control and power devices and the ideas of progress and time they entail: for colonial time is the time of simplification forthe extraction of value, of distribution in a hierarchical fashion, coupled with mass genocides of both people and other creatures. Geopolitics can help us understand the hidden complexity behind the movements of bodies and seeds which are always linked to economic and aesthetic interests, while also revealing the power relations between different states and territories.
siehe auch: https://visualculture.tuwien.ac.at/
Lectures and discussions; literature study; excursions; exhibition visits and attendance of events; writing texts; presentations
Introduction meeting of the Visual Culture module: Mon 2 October 2023, 2 pm
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Monday, 15 January 20242-4 pm Institute for Postnatural Studies The Cosmopolitical Garden
Tuesday, 16 January 20242-4 pm Institute for Postnatural StudiesTutor/Student Workshop
The lectures and seminars will take place on Mondays.In addition, workshops/seminars will be held on Tuesday mornings. For the positive completion of the module, participation in both, the lectures/seminars and the workshops is required.Exact dates will be communicated separately to all participants of the module.
for further information see: https://visualculture.tuwien.ac.at/
Active participation; seminar paper
In winter term 2022/23 this course can only be taken when enrolling in the Visual Culture module. There is no need to enroll individually in any of the module's courses.
