Mehr-als-Menschliche Heroisierungen: Darstellungen eines Phänomens
Where: Vortragssaal der Universitätsbibliothek Platz der Universität 2, 79098 Freiburg
Registration:
Please send an email by March, 31. 2023 to
veranstaltungen@sfb948.uni-freiburg.de
The workshop is organized by Anne Hemkendreis (University of Freiburg) and Anita Hosseini (University of Applied Arts Vienna).
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The embodiment of the more-than-human bears great fascination and, at the same time, a sense of unease. However, attempts to remove the human from the centre of our worldview are bound to human conventions of representation and perception in the way they communicate. In their visual mediation, posthuman figures are located in a field of tension between human heroism and the critique of tendencies towards identity, subjectification and naturalization. Thus, the use of humanoid figures simultaneously serves to overcome these conventions. The workshop examines posthuman heroizations in art, activism and pop culture through textual discussions and case studies.