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.