7:30 PM | Spike Art Quarterly
Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 45
10178 Berlin
Open to the public
ARMEN AVANESSIAN, ANKE HENNIG, and DANIEL FALB
Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (SFSIA) is pleased to present the public lecture "Poiesis and Political Metaphysics" with Armen Avanessian, Anke Hennig and Daniel Falb.
Armen Avanessian studied philosophy and political science in Vienna and Paris. After completing his dissertation in literature, he worked at the Free University Berlin from 2007-2014 . He has previously been a Visiting Fellow in the German Department at Columbia University and in the German Department at Yale University and visiting professor at various art academies in Europe and the US. In Berlin he is editor at large at Merve Verlag and in charge of the theory program at Volksbühne. He is co-founder of the bilingual research platform (including a series of events, translations and publications) Spekulative Poetik (www.spekulative-poetik.de) and of Bureau of Cultural Strategies (https://www.bureauforculturalstrategies.com). His work is translated into various languages.
Anke Hennig is a theorist of 21st century literature and visual culture. Recently she was Visiting Professor at University of the Arts, Berlin and is teaching at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London. She is chairing the international research group Retro-Formalism (www.retroformalism.net) and co-founder of the trans-national research platform Speculative Poetics (www.Spekulative-Poetik.de). She holds a PhD from the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at Free University Berlin and has been a Fulbright Fellow at New York University. She is the author of Soviet Cinematic Dramaturgy (in German Vorwerk 8, 2010) and, in co-operation with Armen Avanessian, co-author of Present Tense. A Poetics (Bloomsbury 2015, in Russian RGGU Press 2014, in German Diaphanes 2012) and of Metanoia. Speculative Ontology of Language (Bloomsbury 2017, in German Merve 2014).
Daniel Falb is a poet and philosopher based in Berlin. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Freie Universität Berlin and has published three volumes of poetry with Berlin-based publisher Kookbooks: die räumung dieser parks (2003), BANCOR (2009), and CEK (2015). Translations include Naturezas-mortas sociais (pt-de, Edition Sextante 2009), New Zork (nl, Zegwerk 2014), and the Anthropocene long poem CHICXULUB PAEM (en, Broken Dimanche Press 2017). His work besides poetry focuses mostly on geophilosophy, radical ecology, and poetics. The collaborative poetology Helm aus Phlox appeared in 2011 (with A. Cotten, H. Jackson, S. Popp, and M. Rinck at Merve Verlag Berlin). Recent works include essays on the aesthetics and poetics of the Anthropocene (“Epistemologies of Art in the Anthropocene,” in: Art in the Periphery of the Center, ed. Christoph Behnke et al. (Sternberg Press 2015) and Anthropozän. Dichtung in der Gegenwartsgeologie (Verlagshaus Berlin 2015)). Falb's work has been supported by grants and prizes, most recently the German PEN Center's 'Kurt Sigel-Award for Poetry' (2016). His forthcoming book on geophilosophical metaphysics Geospekulationen. Metaphysik für die Erde will be out in late 2018 at Merve, Berlin.
ABOUT SFSIA
Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (SFSIA) is a nomadic, intensive summer academy with shifting programs in contemporary critical theory. SFSIA stresses an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the relationship between art and politics. The program consists of seminar-style lectures, deep readings, and workshops. An evening lecture program is free and open to the public. Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art was founded and is directed by Warren Neidich and is co-directed by Barry Schwabsky.