THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE Democracy@UiA SEMINAR SERIES
Prof. Dr. Nanna Lüth (Berlin University of the Arts) and Dr. phil. Wiebke Trunk (Institute for Visual Culture) will talk about artistic forms and activist strategies that humorously question social rules and authorities.
The event is open to all and will be delivered physically (Room B3008, Campus Kristiansand) and digitally (via Zoom).
For physical participants: There will be lunch and coffee, please register by 12.00 hrs Monday 10th of June, so that we can plan accordingly and take into account dietary requirements.
For digital participants: Please register below and choose 'digital attendance'. You will receive the Zoom password by e-mail the day before the seminar.
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The event is part of the Democracy@UiA seminar series. Democracy@UiA is an inter-faculty working group running activities related to University of Agder´s interdisciplinary priority area "Democracy and Active Citizenship", and is supported by university strategic funds.
Abstract
In the lecture, the Professors Nanna Lüth and Wiebke Trunk will outline artistic forms and activist strategies that humorously question social rules and authorities. These include an action by the political opposition in Barnaul in Siberia in 2012, which put up posters on cuddly toys as proxies. A more recent example describes the imposition of imparting nonsense in the context of academic teaching and making fellow students dance. These and other examples are seen as exercises in tolerance of ambiguity, which can be understood as a democratic virtue. In addition, the limits of this "error-friendliness" are of interest.
Bios
Nanna Lüth is an artist, and pedagogue, holding a PhD in cultural studies. Currently, she works as a visiting professor for anti-discriminatory didactics in the field of the arts at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin).
After holding a variety of positions in art education and research, Lüth was junior professor of art didactics and gender studies at UdK Berlin from 2013–21, including a two-year deputy professorship for art education at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
The main areas of her work are: cooperative and interdisciplinary university teaching, especially in the areas of didactics and teacher training, art- and theory-based method development, the opening and diversification of institutions, as well as humor and criticism in (artistic) education.
Dr. phil. Wiebke Trunk first studied stage and costume design and then completed a second degree in art history and philosophy.
She completed her doctorate at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg on art politics and art mediation under National Socialism. Another focus of her research is the critical application of speaking about artworks in terms of difference and discrimination.
Dr. phil. Wiebke Trunk has been a research assistant at the Institute for Visual Culture (art education/art pedagogy) since 2014.
Kontaktperson:
- solomon.k.gebremeskel@uia.no
- Phone
- +47 38 14 19 34