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| Semester | fall semester 2020 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers |
Balz Andrea Alter (balz.alter@unibas.ch)
Frederik Unseld (frederik.unseld@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Thought in the Act - Artistic Research Processes This course proposes the device of “research-creation”, a novel format which experimentally brings together positions from the arts and from research. In the past two decades, several institutions have created working situations, in which artistic practices and research practices are brought into conversation, like for instance the SenseLab in Montréal (CAN), the Sensory Ethnography Laboratory in Harvard (US), the Eye & Mind Lab in Aarhus (DK) and the FSP-T at the Zurich University of Arts. We will engage with the questions and explorations proposed by Brian Massumi and Erin Manning in their 2014 book Thought in the Act, and we shall do so practically, by simulating a lab-like working and learning situation. The course takes place every second week, so that every session provides enough time to, firstly, discuss and collaboratively think through our own readings, and secondly, to critically confront our ideas with an artist position, either presented by invited guests or through video material that bridges the aesthetic and political domains. The course opens up avenues into research at the intersection between power, perception and creativity, and there will be ample space to discuss how participants may develop and adopt creative-artistic processes as part of their own research. Students who are already involved in a research process are welcome to reflect their own approaches in dialogue with the group and the discussed examples. Emphasis is therefore given to practical exercises and to concrete challenges in the process of “research-creation”. However, there is no need to be already involved in a research process in order to be part of this novel learning format. Room: to be announced Dates: Thursdays, every two-weeks, 10 am-14 pm (with 30 minutes lunch break) 24.09.2020 08.10.2020 22.10.2020 05.11.2020 19.11.2020 03.12.2020 17.12.2020 In case all participants understand German, the course will be held in German. For the first session (24.09.20) please read the following book chapter, available on ADAM and from JSTOR: “Coming Alive in a World of Texture: For Neurodiversity,” Manning, Erin and Brian Massumi, Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience, University of Minnesota Press, 2014. |
| Bibliography | Erin Manning and Brian Massumi, Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience, University of Minnesota Press, 2014. |
| Admission requirements | The number of participants is limited to 12 people. The places are assigned according to date of enrollment and subject of study. Priority will be given to the subjects listed under "modules". |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Fields: Media and Imagination (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Forschungsfelder der Ethnologie (Bachelor's degree subject: Anthropology) Module: Projects and Processes of Urbanization (Master's degree program: Critical Urbanisms (Start of studies before 01.08.2020)) Module: The Urban across Disciplines (Master's degree program: Critical Urbanisms) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Ethnologie |