Europhobic Exoticism Thursdays 10 12 Einsteinufer 43 Room
Europhobic Exoticism Thursdays, 10 -12 Einsteinufer 43 – Room 307 Thomas Love thomaswlove@gmail. com
Session One (3 May 2018) Who’s Afraid of Europe? Hall, Stuart. “Europe’s Other Self. ” Marxism Today (August 1991): 18 -19. Derrida, Jacques. “The Other Heading: Memories, Responses, and Responsibilities” [Excerpt]. in The Other Heading: Reflections on Today’s Europe. University of Indiana Press, 1992. (4 -11. ) hooks, bell. “Eating the Other, ” in Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press, 1992. (21 -39). Further Reading: Small, Stephen. “Theorizing Visibility and Vulnerability in Black Europe and the African Diaspora. ” Ethnic and Racial Studies 41, no. 6 (January 18, 2018).
Session Two (10 May 2018) Foundations of Europhobia: Disillusionment and Discontent Otto Dix, Skat Players, 1920
Session Two (10 May 2018) Foundations of Europhobia: Disillusionment and Discontent Friedrich Nietzsche Suspicious of Morality Sigmund Freud Suspicious of Identity, Self Karl Marx Suspicious of Economy, Value
Session Two (10 May 2018) Foundations of Europhobia: Disillusionment and Discontent Neolithische Kindheit, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Installation view Paul Klee, (Metamorphosen: ) der Zusammenbruch der biblischen Schlange, 1940
Session Two (10 May 2018) Foundations of Europhobia: Disillusionment and Discontent Hannah Höch, Ohne Titel (aus einem ethnographischem Museum), 1929 (L), 1930 (R)
Session Two (10 May 2018) Foundations of Europhobia: Disillusionment and Discontent
Session Three (MAKEUP for April 26, date TBD ) Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse al-’Azm, Sadiq Jalal. “Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse, ” Khamsin 8 (1981): 5 -26. Ming Wong, Biji Diva!, video still, 2011 Ming Wong, Bülent Wongsoy, 2015
Session Three (MAKEUP for April 26, date TBD ) Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse al-’Azm, Sadiq Jalal. “Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse, ” Khamsin 8 (1981): 5 -26. Rambod Vala, Shahed, 2015
Session Four (17 May 2018) Postcolonialism as Exoticism: “Magiciens de la terre” Jean-Hubert Martin, Magiciens de la terre [Magicians of the Earth], 1989 On Floor: ceremonial ground painting by Yuendumu Aboriginal Community (Central Australia), 1989 On Wall: Richard Long (UK), Red Earth Circle, 1989
Session Four (17 May 2018) Postcolonialism as Exoticism: “Magiciens de la terre” “Primitivism in 20 th-century Art, ” Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984
Session Four (17 May 2018) Postcolonialism as Exoticism: “Magiciens de la terre” Jean Rouch, Les Maîtres Fous [The Mad Masters], 1956
Session Five (24 May 2018) Encyclopedic Exoticism Camille Henrot, Grosse Fatigue, 2013.
Session Five (24 May 2018) Encyclopedic Exoticism Camille Henrot, Endangered Species, 2010
Session Five (24 May 2018) Encyclopedic Exoticism Rosemarie Trockel, A Cosmos, 2013
Session Six (31 May 2018) Europhobia and the USA Joseph Beuys, I Like America and America Likes Me, 1974
Session Seven (7 June 2018) Afro-Americanophilia
Session Seven (7 June 2018) Afro-Americanophilia Renée Green and Diedrich Diederichsen, Import/Export Funk Office, 1992
Session Seven (7 June 2018) Afro-Americanophilia Renée Green and Diedrich Diederichsen, Import/Export Funk Office, 1992
Session Eight (14 June 2018) Eastern Europe and Europhobia Irena Haiduk, Seductive Exacting Realism, 2015 -2017 Installation view from Documenta 14, Kassel, 2017
Session Eight (14 June 2018) Eastern Europe and Europhobia Chantal Akerman, D’Est, 1993
Session Nine (21 June 2018) Queer Colonialism Ulrike Ottinger, Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia, 1989
Session Ten (28 June 2018) TO BE RESCHEDULED Europhobia and Body Modification James Richards and Steve Reinke, What Weakens the Flesh is the Flesh Itself, 2017, video still featuring photography by Albrecht Becker, untitled self-portraits, c. 1982
Session Eleven (5 July 2018) Europe as Dystopia/Ruin Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Abendland, 2011
Session Eleven (5 July 2018) Europe as Dystopia/Ruin Henrike Naumann, Das Reich, 2017
Session Twelve (12 July 2018) Learning from Athens
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