Time: Monday - Thursday, 09:00 - 18:00 o'clock / Friday, 09:00 - 12:00 o'clock
CW 41: 07 / 08 / 09 / 10 / 11 October 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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Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, fast, says Etel Adnan. In this pool we take a close look at artists and poets. They are contemporary, they are traditional. They are interested in the cosmos, its creation. Does this have something to do with the processes in the studio or when we type letters?
Process is a key term in our seminar. It refers to simple ways of doing things, such as how one step can follow another during a walk, or how one word can be placed next to another, or how one line after another can result in an immense body of artistic work. We will test, experience, and reflect on these practices through walks, discussions and translations by poets, theorists, and machines. The seminar also understands process as an invitation to think about the posthuman in Rosa Braidotti's sense. Braidotti argues that in the Anthropocene, the focus on the subject can be dissolved by actively seeking relations between machines, animals, and the earth. With this in mind, the seminar will discuss the relationship between art and poetry in the following practices and principles: Drawing, writing, asemic writing, long poems, life-work balance, diagrammatic, translation, rule, machine.
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.
Course language: English
Students are able to,
- experimental exploration of processes as writing and drawing, long poems, diagrams, translation;
- discussion of key concepts of contemporary aesthetics and poetics;
- getting familiar with rule-based aesthetics.