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Lehrende: Dr. Philipp Kleinmichel; Sophie Pui-Gee Mak-Schram; Rahel Spöhrer
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Orga-Einheit: Communication & Cultural Management
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Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Credits:
2,0
Standort:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
5 | 35
Prioritätsschema: Standard-Priorisierung
Inhalte:
White Sight - Black Looks
What is whiteness, and what does it do? White Sight - Black Looks is a bi-weekly study group about artistic and cultural examinations of whiteness and related privileges. We will engage with critical contemporary discourses about white hegemonies and oppressive visual registers, as well as with oppositions to these discourses: cultural production that claim and produce ways of being, seeing, and describing that defy white and other norms.
Drawing on Nicholas Mirzoeff’s idea of white sight and bell hook’s idea of black looks, this study group will discuss what these discourses understand by white norms and in what ways these norms are challenged by oppositional forms of writing, organizing, refusing and art-making. Our discussions will involve an artistic or cultural work, alongside theoretical texts on themes such as racism in Germany, representation and knowledge production. We will together explore the tensions in these discourses, such as what it means if theories and artworks that are challenging white priviliges are hosted at institutions that produce structures of privilege and whiteness, like universities, galleries, and museums. How do we situate such conversations and critical thinking in context, and discuss beyond binaries without abstracting the issues at stake?
Engaging in such questions, the study group will discuss authors like Nicholas Mirzoeff, bell hooks, Robin di Angelo, Sara Ahmed, alongside artistic practices by Cameron Rowland, Tomashi Jackson, Diamond Stingley and others. Our starting point as a study group will be Candice Breitz's exhibition of the video work Whiteface (2022), which is on display in the university's exhibition space as part of the art program's annual theme being wrong.
Literatur:
Hooks, B. (2014). Black Looks: Race and Representation. Routledge
Mirzoeff, N. (2023). White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness. MIT Press.
DiAngelo, R. (2018). White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.
Ahmed, S. (2007). A phenomenology of whiteness. Feminist Theory, 8(2), 149–168.
Lloyd, D. (2018). Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics. Fordham Univ Press.
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