REMINDER: »Art, Aesthetics, Politics« – Image Controversy with Thomas Keenan and Juliane Rebentisch

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Liebe Assoziierte,

Liebe Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden der ersten und zweiten Generation,

wir laden Sie herzlich zur morgigen Bildkontroverse im diaphanes Verlag in Berlin-Kreuzberg ein.

Wir freuen uns, Sie dort begrüßen zu dürfen.

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Naomie Gramlich

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»Art, Aesthetics, Politics« – Image Controversy VI with a Lecture by Thomas Keenan and a Comment by Juliane Rebentisch

Wednesday, May 27th, 2015, 7.30 pm at diaphanes, Dresdener Str. 118, Berlin-Kreuzberg

The research training center »Visibility and Visualization. Hybrid Forms of Pictorial Knowledge« at the University of Potsdam invites you to its sixth image controversy bringing together internationally renowned scholars to debate theoretical concepts of images and forms of visibility/invisibility. For the current edition, we will discuss potential connections and differences between art, aesthetics, and politics together with Thomas Keenan (Director of the Human Rights Program at Bard College) and Juliane Rebentisch (Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at HfG Offenbach) who will deliver an extended commentary to Keenan’s lecture.

Both scholars entertain a long-standing relationship with contemporary art; and both take a critical stance. Yet, while Rebentisch stresses the fundamentally different logic of the aesthetic and follows Adorno in his reading of the artwork as autonomous, Keenan has claimed art for more overtly political means, including his contribution to formulating a new forensic aesthetics and his appeal to human rights organizations to take seriously aesthetics’ proximity to ethics and politics. By having them engage in discussion, we hope to shed light on the relationship between art and politics, art and non-art, the definition of aesthetics and its role in contemporary art and political culture.
Lecture, comment, and discussion will be in English; the event is free and open to the public.

Thomas Keenan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Human Rights Program at Bard College. He received his PhD in Philosophy from Yale University. His research interests include media and conflict, literary and political theory, humanitarianism and human rights, violence and politics, evidence and photojournalism. Among his publications are: Fables of Responsibility (Stanford UP, 1997); Mengele's Skull (with E. Weizman, Sternberg, 2012); New Media, Old Media (ed. with W. Chun, Routledge, 2005); The Human Snapshot (ed. with T. Zolghadr, Sternberg, 2013). Also, Keenan is the curator of Antiphotojournalism (with C. Guerra, 2010/11), and Aid and Abet (2011).


Juliane Rebentisch is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at HfG Offenbach where she has also served as Vice President since 2014. In addition, she is a member of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and President of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik (2015-18). Her main areas of research include aesthetics, ethics, and political philosophy. Among her publications are: Ästhetik der Installation (Suhrkamp 2003)/Aesthetics of Installation Art (Sternberg 2012); Kreation und Depression. Freiheit im gegenwärtigen Kapitalismus (ed. with Ch. Menke, Kadmos 2010); Die Kunst der Freiheit. Zur Dialektik demokratischer Existenz (Suhrkamp 2012); Theorien der Gegenwartskunst zur Einführung (Junius 2013).

You will find further information at:

http://www.sichtbarkeit-sichtbarmachung.de/veranstaltungen/s/article/bildkontroverse-vi/
https://www.facebook.com/events/376862372498622/


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