[Liuhum] Aesthetic Relations conference January 20-22 2021

[Olga Zabalueva]

Dear all

You are very welcome at the online conference Aesthetic Relations held as an online event hosted by the research center Art as Forum at the University of Copenhagen! The conference is co-organized by former doctoral student at LiU, Solveig Daugaard, and next to a range of international speakers it will feature papers by two current doctoral students at Språk & kultur at IKOS and LiU, Lene Asp and Ragnild Lome, and include amazing keynotes by feminist and media theorist Nishant Shah, Mons Bissenbakker & Michael Nebeling from Center of Gender, Sexuality & Difference (NORS), and the distinguished Art as Forum visiting professor, aesthetic theorist Denise Ferreira da Silva.

There will even be yoga and a podcast performance walk for the breaks!

See attached booklet for program and abstract + links to open keynote webinars - or sign up (for free) here for full participation: https://eventsignup.ku.dk/aestheticrelations<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feventsignup.ku.dk%2Faestheticrelations&data=04%7C01%7Colga.zabalueva%40liu.se%7C0bcccdd5c98a4804350608d8b7a6d4c9%7C913f18ec7f264c5fa816784fe9a58edd%7C0%7C0%7C637461274470712264%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=4LRuFNMsYNyf4dI8r%2FtdVM%2F7%2FoDzfbCROXfrWkWsskY%3D&reserved=0>

I hope to see many of you and feel free to share the signup with students and colleagues elsewhere too.

All best, on behalf of the organizers,

Solveig


Aesthetic Relations  January 20-22, 2021

The global pandemic has caused unprecedented regulations of the choreography of our everyday lives. Attention has been drawn to the intimate relations we form with people and things; to the delimitations of public spaces; and to the very air, we breathe. In parallel with the threat of viruses and the constraints of lockdowns, the protests of Black Lives Matter along with anti-racist movements overthrowing statues of colonial and imperial history, have shown the necessity of reconfiguring spatio-temporal relations – also within the aesthetic field. Today, as we continue to be faced with a global pandemic that challenges established social forms and reinforces inequities of classed and gendered hierarchies and imperial racism, the complicity of aesthetic representations powering such structures is becoming increasingly obvious. On this backdrop, we have asked accomplished colleagues from across disciplines to reconsider the concept and power of aesthetic relations.

Aesthetic reflection and cultural studies are founded on the more than 200-year-old tradition of continental aesthetic theory. Here, the disinterested judgment of the spectator as a universal liberal subject has been pitted against the instrumental interests and conflicts that determine the fields of politics and economics. Although this persistent depoliticization of the aesthetic domain has been challenged again and again throughout the history of art as we know it, it seems that we have now reached a point where aesthetic theory and cultural studies can no longer reclaim its lost innocence.

In light of this, we want to ask how aesthetic practices and technologies shape our conception of subjectivity, temporality, scale, and geographical belonging. Such questions are not only pertinent in relation to the making, curation, and distribution of cultural productions by and to certain bodies, they also relate directly to the regulation, transportation, punishment, and even disposal of other bodies that co-inhabit our global world.

Consequently, when we speak of aesthetic relations, we want to think – not merely about the way art and cultural practices shape our interaction with the world, within the “gated communities” provided by cultural institutions – but also about the wider political and social implications of sense relations as they establish connections and divisions both inside and outside of the arts.

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Solveig Daugaard
Thomas Koppels Allé 16A|DK-2450 København SV
+45 22327066|solveigdaugaard at gmail.com<mailto:solveigdaugaard at gmail.com>
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