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    Annual conference 2022

    • Conspiracy, Fake and Certainties
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    28 to 30 October 2022

    Conspiracy, Fake and Certainties

    Questions about the contribution of the arts and their theories in times of social change

    Discussions about conspiracies, fake news and (un)certainties often strive for a kind of discursive archaeology and genealogy of these and similar phenomena, i.e. to give the concepts a theoretical contextualisation and a historical depth of focus. In doing so, an emphatic use of aesthetic theory that has contributed to current social and discursive constellations sometimes comes into view. In other words, what we conceptually and socio-theoretically understand today as conspiracies, fake news or (un)certainties can be understood (often under reversed theoretical and political auspices) as the afterlife of certain academic discussions that have been widely conducted since the 1980s and 1990s. These dealt with the relationship between fact and fiction, ambivalence and undecidability, materiality and immateriality as well as the play of signifiers, the knotting of the real, the symbolic and the imaginary, and even diffรฉrance and differences.

    The interest of the conference is decidedly directed towards the role of the arts and their theories in the debates about conspiracies, fake news and (in)certainties today and raises the question of what specific role they and aesthetic theory formation play in shaping current conditions. Therefore, the question of what the contribution of the arts could be in social change today is all the more urgent.

    Locations: Zรผrcher Hochschule der Kรผnste, Toni-Areal, Raum 5.K10, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zรผrich; Universitรคt Zรผrich, Hรถrsaal RAA-G-01, Rรคmistrasse 59, 8001 Zรผrich; Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zรผrich

    Programme

    • Monday, 24 October

      Workshops:

      • 10 am โ€“ 1 pm: Ver/lernen, Mehrfachgewebe, unordentlich zusammenhรคngend
        with Juliane Laitzsch, Ines Kleesattel
      • 2 โ€“ 5 pm: Ambiguitรคts(in)toleranz
        with Henryetta Duerschlag, Nika Timashkova
    • Tuesday, 25 October

      Workshops:

      • 10 am โ€“ 1 pm: Kรผnste, Politik und Affekte
        with Vivien Buchhorn, Benno Wirz
      • 2 โ€“ 5 pm: Pflicht oder Vermรถgen? Kรผnstlerisches Handeln in Krisenzeiten
        with Florence Borggrefe, Dominique Raemy
    • Wednesday, 26 October

      Workshops:

      • 10 am โ€“ 1 pm and 2 โ€“ 5 pm: Whatโ€™s the Matter? ร„sthetischer Materialismus
        with Franziska Haug, Irรจne Hediger, Lorenz Mayr
    • Friday, 29 October

      Keynotes:

      • 4:45 pm: Judith Siegmund (Zรผrich): Begrรผssung
      • 5 โ€“ 6:30 pm: Christian Bermes (Koblenz-Landau): ยปMeinenยซ โ€“ eine Kunst, an der man auch scheitern kann
      • 6.45 โ€“ 8 pm: Sylvia Sasse (Zรผrich): Verkehrungen ins Gegenteil. รœber Subversion als Machttechnik
    • Saturday, 29 October

      Panels:

      • 9:30 โ€“ 11:30 pm: Das Spiel der Kรผnste in der Gesellschaft (Soziologisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven)
        with Sven Lรผtticken (Amsterdam), Jรถrg Scheller (Zรผrich); Sylvia Sasse (Zรผrich); Moderation: Patrick Frank
      • 11:30 am โ€“ 1:30 pm: ร„sthetik der Ethik oder Ethik der ร„sthetik? (Philosophische Perspektiven)
        with Frauke Berndt (Zรผrich), Hana Grรผndler (Florenz), Judith Siegmund (Zรผrich); Moderation: Florence Borggrefe, Dominique Raemy
      • 3 โ€“ 5 pm: Im Material. Praxis, Widerstand, Kritik (ร„sthetisch-politische Perspektiven)
        with Christian Berger (Mainz), Maxi Berger (Wismar), Alexander Garcรญa Dรผttmann (Berlin); Moderation: Franziska Haug, Irรจne Hediger, Lorenz Mayr
      • 6 โ€“ 8 pm: Verlernen (Postkoloniale Perspektiven)
        with Marรญa do Mar Castro Varela (Berlin), Michaela Ott (Hamburg), Marita Tatari (Stuttgart/Berlin); Moderation: Ines Kleesattel
    • Sunday, 30 October

      Panels:

      • 11 am โ€“ 1 pm: ร„sthetische Dimensionen (post-)digitaler Interaktionsrรคume (Medienwissenschaftliche Perspektiven)
        with Sabine Himmelsbach (Basel), Anna Martin-Niedecken (Zรผrich), Ulf Otto (Mรผnchen); Moderation: Ilja Mirsky
      • 1:30 โ€“ 3:30 pm: Kรผnste, Politik und Affekte (Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven)
        with Josef Frรผchtl (Amsterdam), Dorota Sajewska (Zรผrich), Susanne Witzgall (Mรผnchen); Moderation: Vivien Buchhorn, Benno Wirz

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