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    SNFS Research Project «Echoing the Un(fore)seen: Kulturanalytisches Zuhören in den Künsten»
    SNFS Research Project «Echoing the Un(fore)seen: Kulturanalytisches Zuhören in den Künsten»
    • Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact
    • Promotion of Talents and Careers​​​​​​​
    • Cooperation und Internationality​​​​​​​
    • External Funding
    • Event Highlight
    • Teaching-Research Transfer
    • Reading Tips
    • Noteworthy
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    «For us, tuning in to other frequencies, resonating with the echoes of the respective environment and situation and reacting echoingly are possible maxims of an attentively listening approach to cultural realities and their resonance, their persistence, their sustainability, not only in artistic but also in scientific practice.»

    Source: Adorf 2023, «Echoing the Un(fore)seen: Kulturanalytisches Zuhören in den Künsten», SNSF application, approved: 220199.

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    Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact

    2023 got off to a welcoming start with the Research Day, organised by the DKV. The setting of a «book-café» invited people in a cozy atmosphere to get insights in latest publications from ZHdK. In hindsight, a common theme emerged in 2023: our Spring Academy («sich verlandschaften») explored «relational practice», the project «Materialisierte Erinnerungen (in) der Landschaft» concluded with a multimedia evening and issue #4 of INSERT was dedicated to «dis/sense in der Anthropozänkritik».

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    Spring Academy
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    Promotion of Talents and Careers​​​​​​​

    As part of Zeichenwerkstatt, our regular colloquia enabled PhD students to present and discuss their current and prospective projects. Pascale Schreibmüller (Linz) and Carla Peca (ETH) were admitted as new PhD students and will be supervised by Elke Bippus. Susanne Hefti (member of Zeichenwerkstatt) completed her doctoral thesis at ETH with honours (supervised by Philip Ursprung (ETH) and Sigrid Adorf (ZHdK)). Sønke Gau spent the 2023 spring semester on a research leave.

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    Susanne Hefti's work
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    Cooperation und Internationality​​​​​​​

    Simon Graf spent a semester as a visiting scholar at the Department of History at the University of Heidelberg. The residency was awarded as part of additional funding for the SNSF research project «Materialisierte Erinnerungen (in) der Landschaft».

    Léonie Süess received a fellowship from the DAAD-funded programme TheMuseumsLab, which included residencies at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and the National Museum of Kenya in Nairobi.

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    Museum of Natural History Berlin
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    External Funding

    The research proposal «Echoing the Un(fore)seen: Kulturanalytisches Zuhören in den Künsten» received four years of SNSF funding; Director: Sigrid Adorf, Post-Doc: Noëmie Stähli, PhD: Antoine Chessex, Duration: 11/2023–10/2027.

    The SNSF project «Materialisierte Erinnerungen» was successfully completed (see Scientific Output and Event Highlight).

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    Event Highlight

    The research project «Materialisierte Erinnerungen (in) der Landschaft» celebrated its conclusion with a scenic reading on 4 October 2023. Simon Graf, Florian Wegelin, Anna Froelicher and Sønke Gau had been researching anti-tank barriers as forgotten artefacts of collective memory in the Swiss foothills since 2019. At the concluding event, they presented audio-visual, artistic and essayistic contributions to a wider audience.

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    Teaching-Research Transfer

    As in previous years, in 2023 our researchers also taught on various ZHdK BA and MA degree programmes. We also held a guest lecture and colloquium series titled «String Figures – Erfahrene Erzählung?» (Adorf/Gau)

    Our MA Minor in «Cultural Analysis in the Arts», which we continued developing with a view to its introduction in the 2024 autumn semester, will further strengthen the interfaces between research and teaching, especially in exchange with ongoing PhD research.

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    String figures Flyer_Programm
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    Reading Tips

    • Elke Bippus and Ruth Lang (2023): «Kunst und teilhabende Kritik», in Beate Ochsner, ed., Mediale Teilhabe: Partizipation zwischen Anspruch und Inanspruchnahme (Lüneburg: meson press eG). Pp. 257–274. Online at: https://doi.org/10.14619/2126.

    • Simon Graf (2023): «Panzersperren in der Schweizer Landschaft / Anti-tank barriers in the Swiss landscape. Essay zum Bedeutungswandel eines militärhistorischen Überbleibsels / An essay on the changing meaning of a historic military relic». In: Landesmuseum Festung Franzensfeste / Provincial Museum Franzensfeste Fortress (ed.): Vallo Alpino. Die Zukunft? Die Zukunft! Il Futuro? Il Futuro! The Future! The Future? publication accompanying the international conference, 24-25/09/2021. Franzensfeste / Fortezza: pp. 116-129. Online at: https://valloalpino.info/api/uploads/Vallo_Alpino_Franzensfeste_ANSICHT.pdf.

    • INSERT #4 «dis/sense in der Anthropozänkritik»
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    Noteworthy

    Antoine Chessex, one of our research associates, presented his installation «Rustling Voices – A Sonic Inquiry» at La Becque (27 June 2023) and at Kunstraum Walcheturm (3–6 July 2023). His work explores the affective, relational and social dimensions of sound and listening as well as their possible interaction with visual documents and texts. It thus attempts to reveal the narrative qualities of whirring, human and non-human voices and their potential to unfold performative articulations.

    Sonic Inquiry by Antoine Chessex
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