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
- trade fairs and exhibitions
Licht im Dunkeln 2005
Catharina Berents-Kemp (Curator)
04.12.2005 → 26.02.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Memory Flows Like the Tide at Dusk
Alia Rayyan (Curator)
03.09.2016 → 22.12.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
REviewing Jerusalem
Alia Rayyan (Curator)
01.05.2015 → 31.05.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Solitude Cinema
Rebecca John (Curator), Kush Badhwar (Artist), Shumona Goel (Artist), Shai Heredia (Artist), Jumana Manna (Artist), Anna Marziano (Artist), Pallavi Paul (Artist) & Savyasachi Anju Prabir (Artist)
01.08.2019 → 30.09.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Von seltenen Vöglen und Pflanzen
Catharina Berents-Kemp (Curator)
21.03.2012 → 21.10.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Wo das Land zu Ende ist
Catharina Berents-Kemp (Curator)
15.11.2009 → 31.01.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
- External workshops, courses, seminars
2016 Humanity in Action Summer Fellowship Program
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Participant)
27.05.2016 → 26.06.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
2017 GEM Summer Institute
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Participant)
15.07.2017 → 30.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
33rd Swahlili Colloqium
Dyoniz Kindata (Organiser)
2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
34th Swahili Colloqium
Dyoniz Kindata (Organiser)
2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research