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Research Focus Cultural Analysis in the Arts

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Heads and Researchers
Courses
Colloquia

Heads and Researchers

The Heads and Senior Researchers of the fsp-k participate in different study offers of the ZHdK, both in the development of the curriculum and with their own teaching offers:

Sigrid Adorf is a member of the core team of the Master Art Education (MAE). She teaches at the MAE and the Minor Cultural Analysis in the Arts.

Sønke Gau is a lecturer of the Major Curatorial Studies and the Major Transdisciplinarity in the Arts as well as the Minor Cultural Analysis in the Arts and the Minor Critical Thinking.

Elke Bippus is a member of the core team of the Department of Fine Arts. She teaches in the BA Fine Arts, the Minor Social Art Practises (both DFA) and the Minor Critical Thinking (T-Minor/DKV).

Courses

The Minor Cultural Analysis in the Arts allows situating artistic/educational projects in the context of current critical discourses through a close intertwining of practice and theory. Central questions include: How are the arts socially interwoven? How do they participate? How do they intervene? How can criticism be exercised through aesthetic means? How can historical thinking be combined with possible futures? The Minor establishes a deepening connection to the research conducted at the fsp-k and can be used to prepare for a PhD project.
The lecture series and colloquium series “Positions and Discourses in the Arts and Design" was conceived by Sigrid Adorf and Sønke Gau. Both series were held in the autumn semesters (2009-2023) with the regular participation of researchers at the fsp-k. Analogously in the spring semesters, “Positions & Discourses in Culture and Society” took place, conceived by Sønke Gau and Basil Rogger.
The modules “Art and Media Theory”, “Cultural Analyses” and “Studies of Visual Culture” of the MAE are tuned to the profile of the fsp-k and benefit from the mutual exchange of contents and personnel. Each autumn semester, PhD candidates of the fsp-k offer a seminar here which is dedicated to themes of contemporary art:
- “Animals Views – Human Insights: Perspectives of Agency and Critique" (Adorf, Krepart, Stähli, Süess), autumn semester 2025
- «Listening to the images?» (Adorf, Chessex, Stähli), autumn semester 2024
- “À la recherche…Multimedia Ventures and Quests in Stories of the Present" (Adorf, Chessex, Friedli, Vanecková), autumn semester 2023
- “Underwritten Histories. Artistic Practices of Diversifying (Hi)Stories” (Adorf, Chessex, Friedli, Vanecková), autumn semester 2022
- “Writing Retreat in Formine” (Adorf, Hefti, Wolf), autumn semester 2021
- “How Can We Think ‘Tomorrow’? When Artists Touch Upon the Future" (Adorf, Hefti, Stähli, Wolf), autumn semester 2020
- “Time\Film\Space\Art. A-chrono-logical Narrative Techniques in Contemporary Installations and Film Video Works” (Admaty, Adorf, Hefti, Stähli, Wolf), autumn semester 2019
- “Ever-Changing Now. Hoe Contemporary Art (Re)Constructs History" (Adorf, Hefti, Stähli, Wolf), autumn semester 2018
- “What do you mean by Postcolonial? – An Approach” (Adorf, Hefti, Stähli, Wolf), autumn semester 2017
- “Again and again? Artistic Practices of Repetition” (Adorf, Chabr, Harder, Stähli, Wolf), autumn semester 2016

Colloquia

The fsp-k offers research colloquia during which the state of ongoing projects are presented and common questions can be discussed.

The pre/doc colloquium Zeichenwerkstatt was founded in 2013 with the aim of promoting young talents at the intersection of research and teaching. It addresses questions of cultural analysis as artistic practice and offers participants the exchange of experiences and expert supervision of their qualification goals following their MA studies (development of research projects, PhD projects if applicable, networking, joint events and publications, etc.).