At the threshold of the 20th century, a cross-disciplinary fascination emerges with the moving body as a locus of knowledge creation. Between medical disciplines and artistic domains, the body is conceptualized as an element within complex networks connecting organism and environment. Corporeal practices evolve into...

Werner Boschmann, M.A., fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« in the summer term 2025, will present his current research project »Organisation und Übertragung. Konfigurationen energetischer Körper bei den sowjetischen Avantgarden«.

Time: Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 4:15 p.m.
Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354 Hamburg

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We welcome our new Artist in Residence Simone Kessler at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Simone Kessler is a multidisciplinary artist who investigates, through creative processes, philosophical questions that interconnect human systems, ecology and science. Her artistic practice is structured in thematic series, in which she...

The program of our colloquium lectures in the summer term 2025 is online! Starting May 6, 2025, our current fellows will present their research projects. Interested listeners are cordially invited to participate.

We welcome our new fellow Werner Boschmann, M.A. at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Werner Boschmann is Research associate at the Osteuropa-Institut at the Feie Universität Berlin. During his research stay at the CAS from April to September 2025, he will investigate the topic »Organization and Transfer: Configurations of...

We welcome our new fellow Sarah Rosenthal, M.A. at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Sarah Rosenthal is a PhD Candidate in History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Her focus is early modern European art North of the Alps, but she also writes about modern and contemporary art. Sarah Rosenthal’s research interests...

We welcome our new fellow Dr. Johannes Gebhardt at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Johannes Gebhardt is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Art History at the University of Leipzig. His current research focuses on early modern material culture from a transregional perspective (Europe – Viceroyalties of New Spain and...

We bid farewell to our Fellows of the Winter Term 2024/25 and would like to express our appreciation for the stimulating contributions and discussions within our colloquia and lectures.

The CAS »Imaginarien der Kraft« (UHH) invites applications for the international and interdisciplinary Conference »Die Kraft der Avantgarden. Formen und Funktionen einer ästhetischen Bezugsgröße zwischen 1900 und 1940«, which will take place from January 4 to 6, 2026 at Hamburg.

We welcome submissions from literature, art...