Renegotiating Minoritarian In_Visibilities

Renegotiating Minoritarian In_Visibilities

Veranstalter
Oliver Klaassen (Queer Art Studies, PhD student at the GCSC; Lecturer at various German universities); Cathérine Ludwig-Ockenfels (Early Modern History, PhD student at the GCSC); Jana Tiborra (Art Pedagogy, Research Assistant at the Institute for Art Pedagogy, JLU; PhD student at the GCSC); Katharina Wolf (Contemporary History, PhD student and Research Assistant at the GCSC)
Veranstaltungsort
Alter Steinbacher Weg 38; International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany
Ort
Giessen
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
12.11.2019 - 14.11.2019
Deadline
01.11.2019
Von
RA 4 - GCSC, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen

Paradoxical political developments in the ‘Global North’ – in particular the commercial, capitalist and legal embrace of (for example) sexual, gender and racial minorities and the rise of farright nationalism, with its attendant visible and violent classism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and sexism – ask for an urgent renegotiation of minoritarian politics of in_visibilities. Against this backdrop, the international and interdisciplinary conference Renegotiating Minoritarian In_Visibilities will investigate how minoritarian strategies in art and visual culture can undermine hegemonic regimes of representation and challenge the dominant patterns of visibility, assimilation and intelligibility. Considering close connections between academia, art critique/ practice and activism, the societal relevance of the conference is grounded in its exploration of aesthetic strategies that counteract processes of discrimination and stereotyping due to gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, age and further categories of difference.

Programm

Monday, 11. November 2019

6:30-8:30 p.m: Margarete-Bieber-Saal, Ludwigstraße 34
Pre-Conference Event
Chair: Greta Olson
Sarah Held (Vienna) & Sylvia Sadzinski (Berlin): Plonker - Porn - Protest. A Performative Presentation and Movie Screening.

Tuesday, 12. November 2019

1:00-1:45 p.m. GCSC, MFR
Welcome and Introduction
Official Introduction to the Conference by the Organisation Team

2:00-3:30 p.m. GCSC, MFR
Panel I: In_Visible Relations and Solidarities
Chair: Jana Tiborra
Regina Brückner (Berlin): (In)Visibilities of Racism and Neonazi Terrorism: the “National Socialist Underground” in Audiovisual Media
Sebastian Garbe (Giessen): In_Visible Solidarities – Negotiating Political and Social Coalitions across Differences
Clara-Sophie Höhn (Augsburg): Hidden Histories? White Southern Women and their “in_visible” involvement in the Civil Rights Movement

4.00-5:45 p.m. GCSC, MFR
Workshop I (closed event)
Chair: Katharina Wolf
Maicyra Leão e Silva (Sergipe) & Magdalena Kallenberger (Weimar): Maternal Fantasies – Collective Artistic Strategies of In_Visibility towards Political Agency

6:15-7:45 p.m. GCSC, MFR
Keynote Lecture
Chair: Oliver Klaassen & Jana Tiborra
Johanna Schaffer (Kassel) & Isabel Paehr (Berlin): Ambivalences of Visibility (Revised)

20.15 p.m. Dinner at DachCafé, Ludwigsplatz 11, Giessen

Wednesday, 13. November 2019

9:00-9:15 a.m. GCSC, MFR
Welcome & Introduction to the Second Conference Day

9:15 a.m. –12:15 p.m. GCSC, MFR
Workshop II (closed event)
Chair: Taya Hanauer & Rebekka Marpert
Johanna Schaffer (Kassel) with İpek Burçak (Kassel), Isabel Paehr (Berlin), Nicole voec (Kassel), and Cilian Woywod (Kassel): A Set of Speculative Interventions in Virtual Space

2:00-3:15 p.m. IfK, PHIL II, H105 (Photo Studio)
Artist Talk
Welcome: Ansgar Schnurr | Chair: Jana Tiborra
SandraF (London/Vienna): Spectral Realities

3:45-5:15 p.m. GCSC, MFR
Panel II: Critiquing Hegemonic In_Visibilities
Chair: Cathérine Ludwig-Ockenfels
Lisa Beckmann (Giessen): The Politics of Staring: Negotiating Disability and Visibility from the Freak Show to the Ugly Laws in the US
Sebastian Köthe (Berlin): Censorship and Politics of In_visibility in the “global war on terror”. The Case of Abu Zubaydah.
Fadi Saleh (Göttingen): Queer/Humanitarian Visibility: The Emergence of the Figure of "the Suffering Syrian Gay Refugee”

5:15-6:15 p.m. GCSC, MFR
Theme-Café

6:15-7:15 p.m. GCSC, MFR
Lecture Performance
Chair: Danae Gallo González
Sophie Sexon (Glasgow): The In_Visibility of the Non-Binary Body in Drag Performance and Medieval Visual Art

7.15-8.30 p.m. GCSC, Foyer, MFR
Evening Reception

Thursday, 14. November 2019

9:00-9:15 a.m. GCSC, MFR
Welcome & Introduction to the Third Conference Day

9:15-10:15 a.m. GCSC, MFR
Lecture
Chair: Cathérine Ludwig-Ockenfels
Jonathan D. Katz (Philadelphia): The Sexuality of the Hard-Edge: Abstraction, Phenomenology, and Post War American Art

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. GCSC, MFR
Panel III: Queer-Feminist In_Visibilities
Chair: Oliver Klaassen
Sarah Held (Wien): Subversion & Intervention - Material Culture as a Strategy of Visualization of Sexual Violence and Feminines
Sylvia Sadzinski (Berlin): Queer Feminist Curating or How to Go Beyond Politics of Representation?
William J. Simmons (Los Angeles): Queer Materialisms and Imaginary Friends

12:30-1:30 p.m. GCSC, MFR
Concluding Debate
Final Discussion
Official Farewell with the Organisation Team

Kontakt

Oliver Klaassen
Cathérine Ludwig-Ockenfels
Jana Tiborra
Katharina Wolf

in-visibility@gcsc.uni-giessen.de

http://www.uni-giessen.de/faculties/gcsc/gcsc/events/semesteroverview/Winter Term 1920/conferences-symposia/in-visibilities