110012 Workshop | Creativity & Performativity

Course offering details

Instructors: Prof. Dr. Armen Avanessian; Maciej Chmara; Dr. Philipp Kleinmichel; Vishnu Vardhani Rajan; Jeanne van Heeswijk; Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg

Event type: Workshop

Org-unit: Communication & Cultural Management

Displayed in timetable as: Workshop Performativ

Hours per week: 2

Credits: 2,0
Note: In your exam regulations, differing credits may have been specified.

Location: Campus der Zeppelin Universität

Language of instruction: Englisch

Min. | Max. participants: 9 | 24

Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung

Course content:
Dreamscaping with Vishnu Vardahani Rajan and Jeanne van Heeswijk

 The collective exercise crafting space to imagine and move toward a more just world with artists Vishnu Vardahani Rajan and Jeanne van Heeswijk asks: What do you invest your time and care in? If you were part of a space of daring political dreaming, what would you want the space to hold?

With these and many other questions, the Dreamscaping exercise builds a “stewardship curriculum” for the use of Toward Sanctuary Dome (Philadelphia Assembled, 2017) through collective thinking and training in what it means to offer and receive sanctuary for imagining and enacting a more just world. The exercise explores collective movement and imagining ways out of the never-ending crises, so as to get “un-stuck,” to common the uncertainties through learning the potentials of interdependence and collaboration, and to find rest together. Through working on multiple ways of “belonging,” learning to understand how various urgencies are intertwined, holding space for difference, and making community agreements, a series of potential pathways is drafted for weaving dreams from which to craft new realities.

 

Speculative Culinaric(s) with Armen Avanessian and Maciej Chmara

The seminar is dedicated to cooking as an aesthetic and poetic practice based on theoretical and practical examples from the history of culinary arts. Referring to the basic culinary triangle according to Lévi-Strauss, an overall picture of nutrition and its economic as well as ecological connections will be drawn. Starting with the example of bread, which has not only been the most important basic food for thousands of years, but which is, continuing Claude Levi-Strauss' culinary triangle of raw-cooked-rotted, understood as a symbiosis of culture and nature that can be prepared and enjoyed, we will study the basics of new food technologies and schools of thought such as precision fermentation and solar punk. This will be done both in terms of opportunities for an ecological food transition and in the service of developing a new spectrum of enjoyment.
 
Qualification Objectives: In addition to practicing such basic performative activities as baking bread and preparing simple meals, students will learn to think about still under-discussed topics such as basic foods and food technologies in complex economic and ecological contexts. Apart from gaining a better understanding of new food technologies (or of little-known foods from startups or established companies), we also want to practice and perform enjoyment and pleasure, not least in the context of the social aspects of cooking and eating.

More information can be found here https://www.zu.de/lehrstuehle/kunsttheorie/kreative-performanz.php


 

Educational objective:
The module aims to sharpen perception and imparts knowledge of alternative forms of knowledge and creativity techniques in the context of university education. Students receive a practical introduction to design skills and a sense of the social situatedness of their actions.

Further information about the exams:
Attendance min. 75% - Attendance at the final presentation.

To complete module 12141 (CCM)/241127 (AMC), BOTH courses LV 110012 Workshop Creativity & Performance AND LV 121411 Reflection and Presentation of Artistic Episteme must be attended.
- Within ZUplus, LV 110012 Workshop Creativity & Performance can be attended alone (2 ECTS).

 

Admitted Aids:
Attendance min. 75% - Attendance at the final presentation.

Modulbeschreibung:
How do new forms of living together emerge? The module focuses on the question of how one can gain unfamiliar perspectives on the familiar, in order to allow for the new and the different to emerge into our world. Together with artists you will test experimental and performative possibilities of aesthetic and artistic forms of knowledge, become creatively active and get to know new techniques of observation, improvisation and imagination. In this way, you will become familiar with forms of world appropriation that derive from practical, creative action and unfold in the work with your own body and senses. Within the module, different creative and artistic modes of knowledge production are offered and combined with each other. These range from drawing, photographic and filmic modes to performative and ritual self-techniques. The different workshops will be structured by the preparation of a final public presentation.

More information can be found here https://www.zu.de/lehrstuehle/kunsttheorie/kreative-performanz.php
 

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Appointments
Date From To Room Instructors
1 Mon, 5. Sep. 2022 10:00 18:00 Z | NICHT BUCHEN | Cor | Fab 3 | 2.01Z | NICHT BUCHEN | Cor | Fab 3 | 1.01 Prof. Dr. Armen Avanessian; Maciej Chmara; Dr. Philipp Kleinmichel; Vishnu Vardhani Rajan; Jeanne van Heeswijk; Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg
2 Tue, 6. Sep. 2022 10:00 18:00 Z | NICHT BUCHEN | Cor | Fab 3 | 2.01Z | NICHT BUCHEN | Cor | Fab 3 | 1.01 Prof. Dr. Armen Avanessian; Maciej Chmara; Dr. Philipp Kleinmichel; Vishnu Vardhani Rajan; Jeanne van Heeswijk; Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg
3 Wed, 7. Sep. 2022 10:00 21:00 Z | NICHT BUCHEN | Cor | Fab 3 | 2.01Z | NICHT BUCHEN | Cor | Fab 3 | 1.01 Prof. Dr. Armen Avanessian; Maciej Chmara; Dr. Philipp Kleinmichel; Vishnu Vardhani Rajan; Jeanne van Heeswijk; Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg
Course specific exams
Description Date Instructors Compulsory pass
1. class participation No Date Yes
Class session overview
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Instructors
Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg
Dr. Philipp Kleinmichel
Prof. Dr. Armen Avanessian
Maciej Chmara
Jeanne van Heeswijk
Vishnu Vardhani Rajan