How to do things with Academia
Aktivitet: Deltagelse i arrangement eller begivenhed - typer › Deltagelse i workshop, seminar og kursus
Anna Lawaetz - Taler
Engaging in a dialogue with two previous symposiums, Humanities Unplugged (Berlin,
2010) and Collective Futures (London, 2011), the aim of this symposium is to extract a
set of collaborative, academic practices, which can be utilized, enacted, and transformed
by collective endeavors within and beyond academia.
The symposium is particularly concerned with three perspectives: practices of
knowledge production, collective performativity, and the boundaries of academia. These
issues have already been scrutinized in the previous symposiums through workshops,
presentations, games, and discussions, which sought to open up the personal to the
collective, the theoretical to the practical, the rational to the affective, and the academic
to what is not academia.
In an attempt to think reflectively on these practices, the Copenhagen symposium will
engage with the format of the manual. The manual usually operates as an instructional
assistance for assemblage or usage and is supplied with most consumer products.
Ideally, the manual offers an intelligible step-by-step account of ‘how to…’ enabling the
user to acquire and utilize new knowledge for practical purposes.
The Copenhagen symposium intends to take the manual beyond its confined scope and
instead – learning from numerous artistic practices, e.g. Conceptual art and Fluxus or
more recently the publication Do it edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist – to inhabit the format
differently. Not by usurping the stagnant format that self-confidently claims to have the
only correct solution to our problems, but rather to use the manual as a format, which
enables a reflection on a practice: The manual as being preoccupied with how to do a
specific thing and intended for the sharing of this knowledge. We wish to sound out the
potential of the manual to make change by our own means in the context of academia
today. In this spirit we propose to create a provisional collection of manuals on how we
can redo academia.
16 jun. 2011 → 18 jun. 2011
Seminar
Seminar | How to do things with Academia |
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Land | Danmark |
By | København |
Periode | 16/06/2011 → 18/06/2011 |
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