http://www.leuphana.de/en/dfg-programme/kdk.html
Organisational unit: Projectteam
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
Topics
Kunstkritik, Medienkritik, Sozialkritik
- talk or presentation in privat or public events
Susan Taubes‘ Kritik an Jacobs Eschatologiegedanken
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
23.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Szenische Lesung zu Rechtsuptopien
Liza Mattutat (Speaker), Darya Bayer (Speaker) & Marcus Döller (Speaker)
03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
There Is No Time Like The Present
Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Speaker)
28.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
The Tuntenstreit: Respectability vs. Gay Feminism
Lukas Betzler (Speaker) & Jan-Hauke Branding (Speaker)
23.01.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Vom Ausgraben und Beerdigen der Fotografie. Memory Work und Archivkritik in den künstlerischen Arbeiten von Akram Zaatari
Rebecca John (Speaker)
30.11.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Walk & Talk. Thinking about Neighborhoods and Communities
Rebecca John (Speaker), Zeljko Blace (Speaker), David Mathews (Speaker), Sarie Nijboer (Speaker) & Jared McCormick (Speaker)
28.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
- Presentations (poster etc.)
"Critique as Method" Position Paper
Lotte Warnsholdt (presenter)
09.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Zum Verhältnis von feministischer Kritik und Immunität in der Kunst seit den 1960er Jahren. Eine Untersuchung zu Ausgrenzung und Vereinnahmung
Nele Wulff (Speaker)
12.11.2020 → 13.11.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Transfer
- artistic events
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
Biennale di Venezia (55)
Nele Wulff (Organiser)
01.06.2013 → 31.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer