http://www.leuphana.de/en/dfg-programme/kdk.html
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Organisation profile
The cultural sciences research training group “Cultures of Criticism” undertakes a productive revision of the preconditions, roles and validity claims of critique. On the one hand, new technologies and distribution channels have given rise to a welter of unexpected critical and quasi-critical practices. On the other hand, the very theoretical foundations of critique have come under massive pressure – and so, it seems, has the modern project of critique as a whole. What may be regarded as an act of critique and which agents, expectations and criteria take part, is currently subject to basal negotiation.
The research training group conceives critique as a praxis that is always already culturally situated, while its efficacy rides on comprehensive claims to validity and authority. The phenomena under critique are inseparably interwoven with the forms and media used to represent them. Representation thus appears as the focal point in which widely divergent forms of critique and their heterogeneous cultures lend themselves to comparative discussion. Building on studies of diverse concrete critical practices, the Research Training Group seeks to remap the interaction between critique and culture in the history of modernity up to the present and employ the tools of cultural studies to frame a well founded and timely conception of critique.
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen
Deputy spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Erich Hörl
Arbeitsgruppe Kunst. 50 Jahre neue Gesellschaft
Ulrike Jordan (Curator), Christian Hanussek (Curator), Hannah Kruse (Curator), Vincent Schier (Curator), Olga von Schubert (Curator), Eylem Sengezer (Curator), Anna Voswinckel (Curator), Özlem Altin (Artist), Alice Creischer (Artist), Andreas Siekmann (Artist), Nihad Nino Pušija (Artist) & Aykan Safoğlu (Artist)
22.06.2019 → 04.08.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e. V. (External organisation)
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Speaker) & Laura Felicitas Sabel (Member)
06.2021 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Archäologie des Dispositivs: Zwischen Foucault und Agamben
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker) & Mathias Schönher (Lecturer)
11.06.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Arlene Raven and the Feminist Studio Workshop
Oona Lochner (Speaker)
18.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Arlene Raven and the Feminist Studio Workshop
Oona Lochner (Oral presentation)
18.05.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Arlene Raven: Collaborative Writing as Feminist Strategy
Oona Lochner (Speaker)
09.04.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Arlene Raven: Collaborative Writing as Feminist Strategy: Session 13 – Having Words: Artist-writer relationships
Oona Lochner (Speaker)
09.04.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Art and Art History in the Post-War BRD
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
13.12.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Art and Atrocity: Archives of Remembrance
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
05.11.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Artist Talk: Mohamad Abdouni im Gespräch mit Julian Volz
Julian Volz (Speaker) & Mohamad Abdouni (Speaker)
08.05.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer