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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ICI Kulturlabor Berlin <[email protected]> Date: Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:17 PM Subject: Lecture: Coco Fusco, Torture - the Feminine Touch. 31 May, 19:30 To: stefan rusu <[email protected]> ICI KULTURLABOR BERLIN / INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL INQUIRY Christinenstr. 18/19, 10119 Berlin - Tel: 030 / 473 7291 10 www.ici-berlin.org ============================================================================ 31 MAY, 19:30. LECTURE. COCO FUSCO: TORTURE - THE FEMININE TOUCH http://www.ici-berlin.org/event/435/ ============================================================================ >From 2005-2009, Coco Fusco developed a series of projects that explored contemporary military scenarios as intercultural encounters, examining the role of female sexuality as a weapon in the War on Terror. Treating the so-called “theatre of combat” as a dramatic and symbolic space, she concentrated on military prisons. Many of the War on Terror’s most controversial images have emerged from military prisons run by the US military in Iraq, Afghanistan and Cuba, featuring depictions of ritualized humiliation of “enemy combatants.” In her performances, writings and video about this subject, she attempted to analyze these spectacles of subjection and to consider how the American military has capitalized on the growing presence of women in its ranks, adapting originally feminist ideas about sexual assertiveness in order to exploit them as interrogation strategies. Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. She has performed, lectured, exhibited, and curated internationally since 1988. Her performances and videos have lately been included in the Mercosul Biennial (2011), and featured in Afro-Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic at the Tate Liverpool (2010) and Self as Disappearance at the Centre d’Art Contemporain La Synagogue de Delme (2010). She is an Associate Professor and Director of Intermedia Initiatives at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. The lecture is organized by the research group Visual Culture of the DFG Research Training Group “Gender as a Category of Knowledge” (HU Berlin) in cooperation with the ICI Berlin. It is part of the lecture series Talking Eyes ( http://www.talking-eyes.de/ ). Moderation: Nana Adusei-Poku Foto: Eduardo Aparicio ============================================================================ VORSCHAU AUF WEITERE VERANSTALTUNGEN / FORTHCOMING EVENTS ============================================================================ ============================================================================ 7 JUNE, 19:30. LECTURE. ASTRID DEUBER-MANKOWSKY: DIFFRACTING THE RAYS OF KNOWLEDGE http://www.ici-berlin.org/event/424/ ============================================================================ Figural and Agential Realism in Donna Haraway and Karen Barad According to Donna J. Haraway and Karen Barad, the realness of the world appears in the fact that the world is in connection. What figure could symbolize this better than that of diffraction? Like reflection, diffraction is an optical metaphor. Yet, in contrast to the concept of reflection that of diffraction neither relates to the mirror-metaphor nor follows the model of the copy. Hence both Haraway and Barad proclaim a “diffractional turn.” Yet, they differ with regard to the kind of realism they advocate. While Haraway proposes a figural realism, working with style, language and metaphors, Barad delineates an agential realism, which refers to quantum mechanics. As opposed to Haraway, Barad does not intend to create new stories, figures or myths. Instead of relying on semiotics, she argues for an ontological turn. She wants to unify quantum mechanics with the subatomic world in a new epistemo-ontology. The lecture is part of the ICI Lecture Series On Complementarity. ============================================================================ 8 JUN, 10:00. WORKSHOP: MULTISTABLE CITYSCAPES http://www.ici-berlin.org/event/445/ ============================================================================ The workshop Multistable Cityscapes is meant to provide a ground for reciprocal confrontation addressed to all those scholars, theoreticians and artists who are interested in exploring the implications of multistability in relation to cityscapes and urban communities. The workshop aims to promote a reflection on urban spaces around the world bypassing merely historical/historicist approaches, thus endorsing a horizontal, rhizomatous and open perception of cities’ ambivalent relationship with modernity and stressing aspects of confrontation and plurality rather than complaining the loss of any alleged former identity. As multistable figures, cityscapes also take dissimilar, even contradictory and mutually exclusive shapes, which correspond to equally valid or possible descriptions, yet cannot be combined into a single picture – shapes that may have sharp contours but are also liable to transformations and sudden aspect changes. The workshop is open to the public. Please sign up to [email protected] The workshop Multistable Cityscapes is co-organized by the Department of Italian at the University of Warwick and the ICI Berlin. ============================================================================ 12 JUNE, 19:30. LECTURE. CATHY COHEN: RACE AND QUEER THEORY IN THE AGE OF OBAMA http://www.ici-berlin.org/event/447/ ============================================================================ The talk will explore how changes in our understanding of the racialized state, as experienced in the United States in the era of President Obama for example, inform both queer theory and queer politics. Using the examples of the campaign against bullying and the struggle for same-sex marriage in the United States, I consider how race is directly deployed or inherently influences debates and battles over the status and scope of queer subjects. Correspondingly, given the significance of race in the intimate sphere, at least in the U. S., I consider what insights might be gained from centering the work of black queer theorists and activists as academics and activists re-imagine the politics of intimacy. The talk is organized in cooperation with and supported by the Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Freien Universität Berlin (Prof. Cilja Harders) and the Zentraleinrichtung zur Förderung von Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung an der Freien Universität Berlin. It is part of the series The Subtle Racializations of Sexuality: Queer Theory, the Aftermath of Colonial History, and the Late-Modern State organized by Antke Engel, Institute for Queer Theory, in cooperation with the ICI Berlin. ============================================================================ 13 JUNE, 13:00-17:00. WORKSHOP. CATHY COHEN: CATHY COHEN: BLACK QUEER THEORY AND NEOLIBERALISM http://www.ici-berlin.org/event/450/ ============================================================================ In this workshop we will explore how the policies and rhetoric of neoliberalism impact and reshape the intimate sphere, using it as a site for state intervention while deploying the language of privatization. This use of the intimate sphere as a site of regulation is not new. For example, the intimate sphere has always been a heightened domain of regulation for racialized marginal communities. Understanding this, what lessons can we learn from the history of struggle in African-American communities over issues such as sex, desire and family? Specifically, we will explore what interventions in theory and practice might be developed from black queer theory to challenge the attack on or use of the intimate sphere in neoliberalism. The workshop is open to the public. Please sign up by 4 June to [email protected] The workshop is organized in cooperation with and supported by the Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Freien Universität Berlin (Prof. Cilja Harders) and the Zentraleinrichtung zur Förderung von Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung an der Freien Universität Berlin. ============================================================================ EINE LISTE SÄMTLICHER ANSTEHENDEN VERANSTALTUNGEN FINDEN SIE HIER. HERE YOU CAN FIND THE LIST OF ALL FORTHCOMING EVENTS. http://www.ici-berlin.org/index.php?id=4 ============================================================================ ============================================================================ MISSED AN EVENT? 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