7:30 PM | Spike Art Quarterly

Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 45

10178 Berlin

Open to the public

LAURENCE A. RICKELS

Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (SFSIA) is pleased to present the public lecture "Arrival Time" by Laurence A. Rickels.

After thirty years teaching at the University of California, in 2011 Laurence A. Rickels accepted the professorship in art and theory at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe as successor to Klaus Theweleit. After retiring from the Akademie, Rickels was the Eberhard Berent Visiting Professor and Distinguished Writer at New York University (spring semester 2018). He continues to teach at the European Graduate School (Saas Fee, Switzerland and Malta) as the Sigmund Freud Professor (media and philosophy). Rickels is the author of Aberrations of Mourning (1988), The Case of California (1991), Nazi Psychoanalysis (2002), The Vampire Lectures (1999), The Devil Notebooks (2008), Ulrike Ottinger. The Autobiography of Art Cinema (2008), I Think I Am. Philip K. Dick (2010), SPECTRE (2013), Germany. A Science Fiction (2014), and The Psycho Records (2016).

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.