KHI-Project "Artistic Practices as Logistical Inversions"

Project: Research

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The project explores new approaches to the history of modern art. Drawing on the paradigmatic importance of the textile in the development of modernism, a special focus will be placed on textiles and their relevance to societal challenges addressed in contemporary art (especially ecological and digital debates). According to T'ai Smith, the history of textile production provides us with a very vivid example of what Karl Marx called "formal subsumption," in which an earlier technique is taken up and channeled through the mode of operation of capitalism. For example, Sabeth Buchmann, Georg Vassold, and Smith have already analyzed the importance of textiles for the renewal of the field of art history, and Christine Checinska and Grant Watson have emphasized the ability of textiles to act as a catalyst for new ways of thinking in the arts. The project at the KHI, which takes a distinctly praxeological approach, incorporates the dimension of logistics and, above all, will show how textiles have both promoted and counteracted abstraction as a concept of modernity. Rosalind Krauss emphasized the paradigmatic importance of the grid for abstraction. In my habilitation project, which examines the work of the textile artist and graphic designer Lena Meyer-Bergner (1906-81), I elaborate on this important connection between weaving practice and the grid as a concept of modernity. The analysis of specific textile and other cultural practices as processual counter-practices to questionable paradigms promoted by modernity is central to my research at the KHI.
StatusFinished
Period01.10.2431.03.25

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  1. Trap nests for bees and wasps to analyse trophic interactions in changing environments—A systematic overview and user guide
  2. Additive Manufacturing of Soft Robots
  3. BERTologyNavigator: Advanced Question Answering with BERT-based Semantics
  4. Re-visiting Effectuation
  5. A survey of empirical studies using transaction level data on exports and imports
  6. Parametric finite element model and mechanical characterisation of electrospun materials for biomedical applications
  7. Competing Vegetation Structure Indices for Estimating Spatial Constrains in Carabid Abundance Patterns in Chinese Grasslands Reveal Complex Scale and Habitat Patterns
  8. Governing Objects from a Distance
  9. Noninteracting optimal and adaptive torque control using an online parameter estimation with help of polynomials in EKF for a PMSM
  10. Development of a Parameterized Model for Additively Manufactured Dies to Control the Strains in Extrudates
  11. Making the most out of timeseries symptom data
  12. Robust approximate fixed-time tracking control for uncertain robot manipulators
  13. Unravelling insect declines: Can space replace time?
  14. Turning Good Intentions Into Actions by Using the Health Action Process Approach to Predict Adherence to Internet-Based Depression Prevention
  15. »HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN SAMPLES«
  16. Aspect-oriented software development
  17. Effectiveness of a Web-Based Cognitive Behavioural Intervention for Subthreshold Depression
  18. Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics
  19. Multidimensionality of tree communities structure host-parasitoid networks and their phylogenetic composition
  20. Experiments are needed to quantify the main causes of insect decline
  21. Time Use Research and Time Use Data
  22. Failing and the perception of failure in student-driven transdisciplinary projects
  23. Effect of thermo-mechanical conditions during constrained friction processing on the particle refinement of AM50 Mg-alloy phases
  24. Special Issue The Discourse of Redundancy Introduction
  25. Experimental investigation of the fluid-structure interaction during deep drawing of fiber metal laminates in the in-situ hybridization process
  26. Computational history of knowledge
  27. Student Game Design for Language Learning
  28. Assessing authenticity in modelling test items: deriving a theoretical model
  29. Higher Wages in Exporting Firms: Self-Selection, Export Effect, or Both?