Time: 09:00 - 20:00 o'clock
CW 44: 31 October / 01 November 2024
Interested students of other study programmes write an email between 28 August - 08 September 2024 to: studium.dfa@zhdk.ch. We will inform you by e-mail in CW 37 whether participation is possible. Applications before 28 August 2024 will not be accepted.
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Desires are dissident, divergent, complicit, unidentified, and endless, as well as blurry and difficult to grasp. The Master-Symposium seeks to explore queer approaches in art and architecture that resist the normative commodification of artistic expression.
While queerness is often associated with non-heterosexual and non-normative sexual identities, the Master-Symposium aims to broaden the discussion. It prompts us to consider queerness as disruptive, rejecting the present in favour of envisioning a potential future. Queerness becomes a perpetual challenge to norms, resisting fixity and urging alternatives to the ordinary. This Symposium wants to look at strategies that challenge codification and embrace new unprecedented forms of spaces, relationships, and communities - building new architectures - be they physical or relational, human or non-human, i.e. architectures of kinship and love.
About the lecturers:
Marie-France Rafael is an art theoretician. She studied Art History and Film Studies in Berlin and Paris. Her research focuses on the history of exhibiting and the artistic strategies of presenting art -the display of art - as a means of reflection and communication that negotiates everyday culture, politics and economics in a particular aesthetic way.
Judith Welter (*1980) is a curator. She studied art history, Spanish literature and Religious Studies at the University of Bern. In 2014, she completed her PhD on the role of rumors and anecdotes in contemporary. From 2015 to 2021 she has been director of the Kunsthaus Glarus. From 2004 to 2015 she worked for the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich where from 2012 on she was the Collection Curator. Since 2015 she is co-editor of the online magazine for art criticism Brand-New-Life. Recent curated solo exhibitions include Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo) (2021), Caroline Bachmann, Jan Vorisek (2020) Marta Riniker-Radich (2018), Birgit Megerle (2017).
Niclas Riepshoff is an artist living and working between Berlin and Zurich. Spanning a wide range of materials and media—from sculpture and drawing to site-specific interventions and musical performances—his works explore themes such as human reproduction, housing, education, and aging.He is a teaching assistant at the MFA ZHdK.
Learning objectives / competences:
Students are able to,
- engage with questions of queer strategies in art an archittecture;
- reflect different notions of tqueerness and desire;
- get in exchange with peers and guest in discussions and workshops.
Course language: English