Transculturality: Conceptualizations and Uses

Lecture, 22 August 2016

Prof. Dr. Andreas Langenohl, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Department of Sociology

General introduction on conceptualizations and uses of the term “Transculturality: Preliminaria: Culture and Difference/ Transculturality according to Wolfgang Welsch/ From Transculturality to Transculturation/ Trans/Culturation/ Trans-

›› Biography Prof. Dr. Andreas Langenohl

How to Disappear (Completely)

Lecture, 23 August 2016

Nina Willimann, Choreographer/Performer, MA Transdisciplinary Studies ZHdK

About the collaboration and artistic process/work of Nina Willimann and Mayumi Arai (MA Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts) developed in the framework of “Transcultural Collaboration 2015”

›› see also: How to disappear (completely) ›› Archive 2015 ›› Group Works

Deep History of the Silk Road

Lecture, 24 August 2016

Mi You, Researcher/Curator, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne

The talk takes the historical nomads and the silk road as figuration for a kind of transgressive thinking, beyond the romanticism often associated with them. The (dis)connectivity of various parts of the silk road in history and the present offers an optic for rethinking construction of nation-states, borders and identities.

›› Biography Mi You

Artistic Experimentation

Lecture by, Ricardo Eizirik, 31.08.16