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Forum Museum

Panel discussion: The dark desire of things. On the agency of aesthetic objects
  • Wednesday, 17-1-2024 | 6 p.m. Uhr
  • free entry
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  • For Adults
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Unfortunately, this date has been cancelled.

In museums, art objects often serve as illustrations of our own world views. We view them from an aesthetic perspective, interpret them from a certain social and cultural context and subject them to personal considerations.

But don’t works of art also have a life of their own? Do they not also have the power to shape the world independently of human beings? Thomas Feuerstein (artist), Oliwia Murawska (ethnographer, University of Innsbruck), Annika Schlitte (philosopher, University of Greifswald) and Christiane Schürkmann (sociologist, University of Mainz) will discuss this “dark desire of all things”, as the poet Rainer Maria Rilke once called it. Moderation: Ralf Bormann (Graphic Collection)

Participants in the discussion:

Thomas Feuerstein
Artist and art theorist
Vienna and Innsbruck

Dr Oliwia Murawska
Senior Lecturer
Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, Institute of History and European Ethnology

Prof. Dr Annika Schlitte
Managing Director
University of Greifswald, Institute of Philosophy, Department of Aesthetics and Cultural Philosophy

Dr Christiane Schürkmann
Post-Doc
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Institute of Sociology, Department of Knowledge, Education, Qualitative Methods

Moderation:

Dr Ralf Bormann
Head of Collection
Tyrolean State Museums, Graphic Collection