Confrontations with the Void
Alexi Kukuljevic
Art Sciences and Art Education, Art Theory
2022W, scientific seminar (SEW), 4.0 ECTS, 2.0 semester hours, course number S04319
Description
“It is no longer possible to think in our day other than in the void left by man’s disappearance.”
- Michel Foucault
This seminar takes its point of departure from what Alain Badiou, at the end of The Century, terms the joint disappearance of man and God. In the place of God and man, we encounter instead a void. To confront the void entails coming to terms with this radical loss of foundation, the vacancy left by God’s absence (Nietzsche’s death of God) and “the void left by man’s disappearance.” This vacant place, the place of the void, has radical implications for the metaphysical foundations of literature, art, and cinema. This is admirably captured by a remark by the filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni upon visiting the studio of Mark Rothko. Rothko’s art, according to Antonioni, concerns the presentation of nothing “with precision.” The effort of the seminar will be to think the void and its varied avatars – absence, lack, emptiness, nothingness – with precision. Traversing the late work of Samuel Beckett, Foucault’s analysis of Valázquez’s Las Meninas, Badiou’s subtractive ontology, and Deleuze’s conceptualization of Antonioni’s neo-realist cinema, we will bring the void into focus, dwelling on the paradox of its slippage from absent presence to present absence.
Works
Michelangelo Antonioni, L’Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L’Eclisse (1962)
Alain Badiou, Handbook of Inaesthetics (1998)
The Century (2005)
“Samuel Beckett’s Method” (2021)
Samuel Beckett, Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still
Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 2, The Time-Image (1985)
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (1966)
Meetings
04.10.2022 - 16:30 bis 18:00 | Seminarraum 23 (VZA7)
18.10.2022 - 16:30 bis 18:00 | Seminarraum 23 (VZA7)
25.10.2022 - 16:30 bis 18:00 | Seminarraum 23 (VZA7)
08.11.2022 - 16:30 bis 18:00 | Seminarraum 24 (VZA7) - anderer Raum!
15.11.2022 - 16:30 bis 18:00 | Seminarraum 23 (VZA7)
22.11.2022 - 16:30 bis 18:00 | Seminarraum 23 (VZA7)
29.11.2022 - 16:30 bis 18:00 | Seminarraum 23 (VZA7)
06.12.2022 - 16:30 bis 18:00 | Seminarraum 23 (VZA7)
13.12.2022 - 16:30 bis 18:00 | Seminarraum 23 (VZA7)
20.12.2022 - 16:30 bis 18:00 | Seminarraum 23 (VZA7)
10.01.2023 - 16:30 bis 18:00 | Seminarraum 23 (VZA7)
17.01.2023 - 16:30 bis 18:00 | Seminarraum 23 (VZA7)
24.01.2023 - 16:30 bis 18:00 | Seminarraum 23 (VZA7)
Examination Modalities
Anwesenheit, Mitarbeit, ev. kurzer Text!
Dates
18 October 2022, 16:30–18:00 Seminar Room 23
25 October 2022, 16:30–18:00 Seminar Room 23
08 November 2022, 16:30–18:00 Seminar Room 24
15 November 2022, 16:30–18:00 Seminar Room 23
22 November 2022, 16:30–18:00 Seminar Room 23
29 November 2022, 16:30–18:00 Seminar Room 23
06 December 2022, 16:30–18:00 Seminar Room 23
13 December 2022, 16:30–18:00 Seminar Room 23
20 December 2022, 16:30–18:00 Seminar Room 23
10 January 2023, 16:30–18:00 Seminar Room 23
17 January 2023, 16:30–18:00 Seminar Room 23
24 January 2023, 16:30–18:00 Seminar Room 23
Course Enrolment
Via online registration
Curriculum Allocation
Art Education: subject kkp (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: aus Kunsttheorie 067/003.20
Art Education: subject kkp (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 067/003.80
Art Education: subject kkp (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 067/003.80
Art Education: subject kkp (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Seminar aus dem Bereich Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften 067/003.25
Art Education: subject kkp (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 067/003.80
Art Education: subject tex (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 071/003.80
Art Education: subject tex (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 071/003.80
Art Education: subject tex (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Seminar aus dem Bereich Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften 071/003.25
Art Education: subject tex (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 071/003.80
Art Education: subject dae (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 072/003.80
Art Education: subject dae (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 072/003.80
Art Education: subject dae (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Seminar aus dem Bereich Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften 072/003.25
Art Education: subject dae (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 072/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 074/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 074/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Seminar aus dem Bereich Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften 074/003.25
Art Education: subject dex (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 074/003.80
TransArts - Transdisciplinary Arts (Bachelor): Theoretical foundations: Theoretical foundations 180/003.01
Expanded Museum Studies (Master): Electives: Art Theory 537/080.12
Stage Design (2. Section): Kunsttheorie und Kulturwissenschaften: Kunsttheorie 542/207.03
Media Arts: Specialisation in Transmedia Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie und Geschichte : Kunsttheorie 566/208.13
Media Arts: Specialisation in Digital Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie, Geschichte: Kunsttheorie 567/208.13
Studies in Art and Culture (Master): Electives Area 1: Art Theory 568/005.05
Studies in Art and Culture (Master): Electives Area 2: Art Theory 568/006.05
Design: Specialisation in Graphic Design (2. Section): Theoretical Basics: Humanities 576/203.02
Design: Specialisation in Graphics and Advertising (2. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Humanities 577/203.02
Conservation and Restoration (2. Section): Geisteswissenschaften: Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte 588/204.10
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Art Theory, Cultural Studies, Art History, Philosophy 605/202.01
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Free Electives out of Scientific and Research Practice 605/202.80
Design: Specialisation in Applied Photography and Time-based Media (2. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Humanities 626/203.02
Co-registration: possible
Attending individual courses: possible