Ways of Existing: Becoming-Text

The seminar will present concepts and contemporary art practices from the Global South, which consider time as a medium. To "write-in-time" is to practice ways of historicizing that re-centre oral histories and forms of knowledge production that also include ancestral knowledge and nature as archives. Through inventing and making use of "unknowing-grammars", we will go beyond what is immediately decipherable or categorised at first glance, in order to also understand institutional critique, decoloniality, feminism, and queer/black/migration identity politics as not separate "themes", but as often overlapping and embodied ways of navigating the world that require specific and various modes of marking a presence. This module aims to open up possibilities for creating what Sisonke Msimang (2017) describes as "characters that come from the future, whose tenacity resists categorization".

The course will include guest lectures, live events, workshops, and group discussions with invited artists/historians/writers/activists.

Invited speakers (tbc):

• Jota Mombaça
• Wanelisa Xaba
• Zara Julius
• PUNGWE
• Kiluanji Kia Henda

Spechstunden: Open to all students

Tuesdays: 10:00 – 17:00 Studios/Online/In-situ/Atelier 2 (aka room 2)

Please email to book an appointment.