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Course Catalogue WS 2024/25

(En)acting together, queering collectively.

Type:
Specialist seminar
Semester:
WS 23/24
Target group
Main course / Diploma 2
Max participants:

20


Requirement

Applicants should write a short email paragraph to donna.kukama@khm.de

to state why they wish to participate.


The seminar is presented in English and will continue over two semesters, beginning in the winter semester.


It is a specialist seminar, open to all students.

Dates - place & time

TypStartEndDayTurnusfrom-toLocation
25.10.2324.01.24MittwochWöchentlich14:00 - 16:00Filzengraben 2a, Atelier 2 / room 2
Typ
Start25.10.23
End24.01.24
DayMittwoch
TurnusWöchentlich
from-to14:00 - 16:00
LocationFilzengraben 2a, Atelier 2 / room 2

Seminar description

"(T)he political seems to have as a characteristic the quality of arranging the relationship of things and of people within some form of society. It is an ordering principle, distinguishing the lawful or authorized order of things while itself being the origin of the regulation. We associate, then, the political with power, authority, order, law, the state, force, and violence— all of these are phenomena which restrict the outcome, deflect the extraneous, limit the relevant forces."

Cedric J. Robinson, The Terms of Order


"Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. (…) Queerness is a longing that propels us onward, beyond romances of the negative and toiling in the present. Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough, that indeed something is missing." José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity


It begins with desire. A desire to breathe in resonance, to search for other forms of collectivity and hospitality that could accommodate the strangeness, “extraneous” that some of us call home. This seminar offers a home that emerges from cultures of collaborative and collective practices as a refusal to bear the responsibility of a single author. To foreground syncretism is to position ourselves toward decentralized ways of (en)acting together.


What we might want to manifest time and again is “that this world is not enough, that indeed something is missing.” If queerness, as Muñoz indicates in his introduction to Cruising Utopia, must be theorized as collectivity, then mourning is, similarly, a mode of communicating or feeling-with that cannot make sense in isolation. That something is missing marks not only a radical disregard for solitary existence but also a fundamental disbelief in the metaphysics of completeness. Gone or not arrived yet, that which we mourn and makes us (home)sick, echoes our brokenness.


A (partial) selection of artist collectives:

Gugulective, Chto delat?, Keleketla! Library, Chimurenga Chronic, Ni Santas Collective, Ruangrupa, The Black Archives, MADEYOULOOK, The Bettys, Gutai Art Association, Center for Historical Reenactments, Raqs Media Collective, …


Reading List:

Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, José Esteban Muñoz


Zong!, M. Nourbese Philip


“Each One Teach One; Practice-Theory-Practice; Collective Support; Mutual Respect & Equal Participation” Judy Seidman with Medu Art Ensemble in Chimurenga 15 “The Curriculum is Everything” (2010)


“MEDU: Art and Resistance in Exile by Sergio-Albio González”, in Thami Mnyele + Medu Art Ensemble Retrospective, Jacana (2009)


“What, How and for Whom (WHW), Collaborations in curating, research and writing to create translocal knowledge and experience” by Maja and Reuben Fowkes in translocal.org


Liam Gillick “Maybe it will be better if we worked in groups of three” part 1& 2 in e-flux Journal


The Production of Social Space as Artwork: Protocols of Community in the Work of Le Groupe Amos and Huit Facettes by Okwui Enwezor in “Collectivism after Modernism”


Guest Artists:

Listening at PUNGWE, Nyabhinghi Lab, Sujatro Ghosh, Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective, Jamilah Sabur, Sara Sejin Chang, Hera Schan, Jeremy (de’jon) Guyton


Sprechstunden:

Tuesdays, 14–16 h (donna Kukama)

Wednesdays, 11–13 h (Ronald Rose-Antoinette)

Student office

Karin Cordes

Juliane Schwibbert

Claudia Warnecke

Heumarkt 14

50667 Köln


Tel.: +49 221 20189 - 194 /

119 / 187 / 249
E-Mail: studoffice@khm.de


Opening hours:   Mondays + Tuesdays from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. + Thursdays from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.


For enquiries or appointments, please call us, Mon - Thu 9.30 to 1 p.m., or send us an e-mail.


Winter semester 2024/25

Lecture period:
​​​​​​​Oct. 21, 2024 until Feb. 14, 2025


Summer semester 2025

Lecture period:
​​​​​​​Apr. 14, 2025 until Jul. 25, 2025

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