Course of Study / Warburg-Kolleg
WARBURG-KOLLEG »ENERGIELANDSCHAFTEN«
14 — 17 October 2024 (not public)
In cooperation with the Warburg-Haus
The Warburg-Kolleg on »Energy Landscapes« examines European and non-European traditions of landscape representation and practical landscape design - including landscape painting, photography, land art, garden and landscape architecture, landscape poetry, narrative and descriptive landscape in prose, and (new) nature writing – searching for traces of the energy industry. Where are natural spaces cast as potential and economic landscapes? Which role play human artefacts, such as technical elements like windmills and water mills? To what extent do interventions such as canal construction, embankments and pumping stations, which serve to reclaim the landscape for pasture and forestry, play a role? How and when do deforestation and afforestation landscapes, extraction sites and spoil heaps, transport routes and pipeline routes appear in artistic and literary representations? Are water, wind or sun imagined as possible sources of power before plants for their technical utilization are planned and installed? What is the impact of abandoned energy infrastructures on landscape formations: are they repurposed as recreational areas, renaturalized or simply left to their own devices? And which aesthetic categories and symbolic reference systems emerge in the perception, description and depiction of different energy landscapes?
Those taking part include Julia Ditter, Kevin Drews, Katharina Falser, Clemens Günther, Mia Hallmanns, Anna Hordych, Ulrike Kern, Julia Klar, Sebastian Paul Klinger, Philipp Kröger, Frauke Materlik, Hauke Ohls, Nicole Rettig, Friederike Schäfer, Isabell Schmock-Wieczorek, Bernhard Seidler, Carolin Slickers, Antonia Villinger and Marc Weiland.
COURSE OF STUDY »IMAGINARIEN DER KRAFT: KUNST, LITERATUR, WISSENSCHAFT«
29 September – 1 October 2019 (not public)
In cooperation with the Warburg-Haus
On the one hand, the study course is concerned with various conceptions and differentiations of the concept of force that can be observed in rhetoric, aesthetics and other fields of science and scholarship, in order to determine the relationship to natural philosophical and scientific theories of force in their historical manifestations. Searching for connecting lines and ruptures of varying patterns of imagination and thought in the sciences and arts, for instance, models of regulation and control, wastage and balance, release and containment are being discussed. On the other hand, the study course deals with artistic and literary representations of force, which as such can only be perceived sensually through its effects. On this basis, also the question of how to assess the tension between representations of force and the power of representation will be addressed. How are forces staged in the media, in which forms and colors are they brought to bear and which affects and effects appear to be decisive in the context of their production and reception? Last but not least, "imaginaria of force" have been and are still are employed in the interchange between the sciences and the arts. These transfer processes will also be a subject of the course. In addition to joint analyses of images, texts and objects, the study course focuses on the participants’ projects.
Those taking part include Florian Auerochs, Mathilda Blanquet, Franca Buss, Maximilian Derksen, Kevin Drews, Tamara Fröhler, Antonia Götz, Katharina Lee Chichester, Gilles Monney, Paula Muhr, Tilmann Schreiber, Bernhard Seidler and Yannic Walter.