Context (Pool) 3: Art & Poetry

The cosmos can be understood as something beautiful. It was conceived as something that could be displayed on a single surface. Today it is an arrangement of scientific procedures and apparatuses. Contemporary art and poetry respond to that with strategies that we will investigate in the seminar.

A bibliography will be available on Paul. In a Zoom meeting before the start of the course we will introduce the texts.

About the lecturer:

Nils Röller is a professor at the Zurich University of the Arts. Currently he is writing a book on the poetics of perception. His research focuses on the relation between art, poetry and philosophy. In the Journal for Art, Sex and Mathematics he has published experimental posts in collaboration with artists and poets since 2006. Recent publications in English and German include "Passages", "The Cut and the Book", "Interfacing Philosophy”. He edited the issue "Text-Image Parergon" for Koko magazine. Former publications as “Roth der Grosse”, “Bittermeer”, “Alpentram” evolve as discussions of processes established in contemporary poetry.