schedule
June 2011 – June 2012
lecture series
The Subtle Racializations of Sexuality: Queer Theory, the Aftermath of Colonial History, and the Late-Modern State
With lectures by Jasbir Puar, Sara Ahmed, Fatima El-Tayeb, Antonia Chao, Drucilla Cornell and Cathy Cohen; furthermore a workshop in April 2012.
January – June 2012
Series of events at the NGBK Berlin
Bossing Images. Macht der Bilder, queere Kunst und Politik
2010
International Conference
Desiring Just Economies / Just Economies of DesireBerlin, June 24-26, 2010
The conference seeks to explore how desire not only sustains current economies, but also carries the potential for inciting new forms of understanding and doing economy. We propose to focus on the notion of desire as a tool to explore economy’s sexual dimension as much as the economic dimension of sexuality. Presuming that desire can be envisioned beyond heteronormative restrictions and that this bears on the idea of justice, the question arises whether the pursuit of economic and sexual justice can be made to coincide when economy is queered by desire. The conference's twin interest lies in unpacking how sexuality is implicit in economic processes and in unfolding how economy is linked to sexuality. How do current global economic processes (including production, re-production, consumption, circulation, speculation) constitute specific sexual identities and practices that collaborate in relations of exploitation, domination, and subjectivation? Conversely, how do ways of organizing sexuality influence economic processes?
The conference is a collaboration between Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies (Goethe University Frankfurt), Institute for Queer Theory (Hamburg/Berlin), ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry and the interdisciplinary research project 'Cultures of Performativity' (FU Berlin).
Organizers:
Nikita Dhawan, Antke Engel, Christoph Holzhey, Volker Woltersdorff>CFP
2009
Workshop
The Sexual Politics of Utopia
How can one invent politics that evade homonormative promises, heteronormative compromises and the desired/desiring consistency of socio-sexual life? We would like to invite you to a “creative tinkering” workshop in order to incite futures that are not in line with “the future.”
Please bring along: ideas for “flash utopias,” “misused time capsules” or “queer political symptoms”. “Flash utopias” are fragments of utopian thinking that, for you, inspire ideas about queer futures. What it would mean if they were provisionally realized in a public space here and now? “Misused time capsules” are a utopian means of transportation that are used in a non-progressive-time-based-way. "Queer political symptoms" are signs (invented, discovered, empty, inscrutable, or polysemic), which challenge (hetero-)normative horizons or judging agents.
Please register: mail(at)queer-institut.de
> > invitation / program >>>as pdf
Sunday May 17, 2-6pm + film program (approx. 7.30 pm):
Time-Queering Against the Grain: Utopic Visions that Can’t be stopped
A fun-filled program of shorts that is guaranteed to break your pocket watch!
The Island
Trevor Anderson, 2009, Canada, video, color, 5:22 min.The Pool
Sara Jordenö, 2004, Sweden, 16mm, color with sound, 22 min.My Name is Pochsy: An Industrial Film
Karen Hines, 2007, Canada, Super8mm, B&W, 7 min.Family Outing
Mark Bradley, 2001, Canada, 16mm, color, 5:30 min.La Bestia
Girlswholikeporno (Águeda Bañón and María Llopis), 2005, Spain, video, color, 2:16 min.Veranstaltungsort:
WirrWarr, Dieffenbachstr. 36 , 2. Hinterhof,
Berlin-Kreuzberg
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Symposium
Queer Futurities - Today. Utopias and Beyond in Queer TheoryWhat would utopian queer futures look like or should, as theorist Lee Edelman polemically declared, queers instead embrace the stance of "no future"? "Queer Futurities, Today" is an international symposium that seeks to question, critique, play with and create new concepts of queer futurities, utopias and beyond. Two days of presentations, collaborations and discussions explore the subject from different angles: Are utopia, dystopia and heterotopia promising concepts in order to counter normative as well as normalizing social regulation of sex, gender, sexuality and desire? How can queer politics react to the domestication of non-normative genders and sexualities? What does it mean to pluralize “the future” and to challenge progressive time that understands future as a promise, more often than not bound to heteronormative concepts of reproduction and family? What is the role of fantasy and imagination in deconstructing rigid binary sex/gender orders and designing queer futurities?
Please register at: info(at)finstitut.de
or phone: 0049/30/52002 60-10 or fax: 0049/30/52002 60-29Monday/Tuesday May 18/19 2009
in the Finnish Institute in Germany, Berlin
Georgenstr. 24, S-Friedrichsstr.Organized in co-operation with SQS Queer Journal, supported by the Finnish Institute and the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI-Berlin).
further inquiries: akuliina.saarikoski(at)helsinki.fi
> cfp (pdf)>>> program (pdf) >>> abstracts (link)
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talk
Lee Edelman (Tufts University, U.S.)
Against Survival: Queerness in a Time that's Out of Joint
Negativity, like the queer, is intolerable, even to those who think themselves queer. Its insistence on non-identity spurs our continuous efforts to positivize what resists all normalization. Though Adorno observed that “society stays alive, not despite its antagonism, but because of it," the queerness of non-identity provokes repeated attempts to redeem it by turning it into something pragmatic and comprehensible, like political action or collective practice. “Against Survival” draws on work by Adorno, Derrida, and Lacan, along with texts by Shakespeare and photographic images by the Los Angeles artist, Larry Johnson, to think queer theory in relation to questions of negativity, futurity, and survival and to assert the radical refusal of queerness to settle for a multiplication of “futurities” or to cohere into any quotidian practices aimed at making its negativity the ground for new forms of communal life or new modes of viability. Queerness, instead, as this talk will suggest, works against survival, even against its own survival, except to the extent that antagonism is how “society stays alive.” In that sense queerness amounts to the rupture that turns hope against itself in order to maintain the radical negativity that no identity could hope to survive.
Monday May 18, 7pm
in the ICI/Kulturlabor, Christinenstr. 18/19 (Pfefferberg Haus 8).In cooperation with the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI Berlin)
Sponsor: Buchladen Prinz Eisenherz Berlin2008
november 2008
Talk by Irit Rogoff, preceded by a performance by Ana Hoffner
Monday Nov 24, 2008, 19:30
ICI/Kulturlabor, Christinenstr. 18/19 (Pfefferberg Haus 8).Irit Rogoff
(Professor for Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London)
GeoCultures: Circuits of Art and GlobalisationGeoCultures is an attempt to understand how a large range of current cultural practices - including fine arts, architecture and spatial practices, internet and screened media, curating and organising, sonic culture, performance, and theory - are producing new and unexpected realities within circuits of globalisation. These departures are not simply the production of new subject matter or forms, but the production of new artistic arenas which enact contemporary political conjunctions.
The conditions of recent phases of globalisation have produced a newly strained relationship between stabilities and circulations. The stabilities of citizenship and emplacement and their related access to rights, protections, inclusions, situated knowledges and legitimated cultural production, are countered by an ever increasing array of categories of those who cannot automatically assume such accesses; immigrants, migrant laborers, refugees, asylum seekers, diasporic communities not to mention the numerous bodies on the move within the circuits of mobile capital, outsourcing and franchising or those who are on the move for the gratification of various desires such as education or tourism. Such a level of bodily circulation has impacted on the very possibility of arguing 'situated knowledge' simply as a series of direct relations between subjects, places and epistemologies.Performance
Ana Hoffner: Panic: Perverted
The performance Panic: Perverted is a reenactment of Valie Export’s Aktionshose: Genitalpanik (1969). It articulates the perspectives of Expanded Cinema and Body Performanc for the present. By making use of a complex media installation the performance explores possibilities of feminist counter positioning in times of global migration.
Bios:
Irit Rogoff is a theorist, curator and organizer who writes at the intersections of the critical, the political and contemporary arts practices. Rogoff is Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College London University, a department she founded in 2002. Her work across a series of new 'think tank' PH.D programs at Goldsmiths (Research Architecture, Curatorial/Knowledge) is focusing on the possibility of locating, moving and exchanging knowledges across professional practices, self generated forums, academic institutions and individual enthusiasms. Recent publications include: "A.C.A.D.E.M.Y" (2006) "Unbounded - Limits Possibilities" (2008) and forthcoming "Looking Away - Participating Singularities, Ontological Communities" (2009). Curatorial work includes; De-Regulation with the work of Kutlug Ataman (2005-8) ACADEMY (2006), "Summit - Non Aligned Initiatives in education Culture" (2007).
Ana Hoffner is performance artist and works in and on queer and migrant politics. Recent exhibitions and performances: Oktobarski Salon (Beograd 2008), Hack.Fem.East (Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2008), Rdece Zore (International Queer and Feminist Festival, Galerie Alkatraz, Ljubljana 2008), “The Making Of...” (Ladyfest Berlin 2007), “Quand les lesbiennes se font du cinema” (Feminist and Lesbian Film Festival Paris, 2006), “Isztvana: debutt” (Kontekst Gallery, Belgrade 2006).
In co-operation with the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI Berlin) and
the Institute for Latin American Studies, Free University Berlin
(Prof Dr. Anja Bandau)
