>> In Memoriam: Shantala Hummler (1987–2024)
(accessed on April 15, 2024, at https://www.buchjahr.uzh.ch)
This event is part of the series CRITICAL FRIDAYS. Here, we move beyond the outdated separation of body, mind, and soul and instead explore embodied knowledge and the cognitive powers of the somatic. The focus is on the body as a medium for artistic and ritual practices. We foster dialogues with experts from the fields of science, art, and care work. Performances, workshops, readings, and film screenings serve as our starting point for collective reflections that bridge the gap between closeness and distance, between personal experiences and avant-garde cultural theories.
The history of modern pornography has always been a genuinely literary one, beginning with texts about the lives of prostitutes and autobiographies. During this event, we will read historical and contemporary pornographic texts in order to arrive at a diagnosis of the present through collective discussion and to explore the relevance and traditional lines of literary representations of the pornographic. In this sense, we can examine not only styles of writing, narrative forms, and figurations, but also the political dimension of the pornographic in literature. On the other hand, by reading the texts aloud and discussing them, we aim to make a particular form of embodying pornography tangible. In this way, we can challenge the primacy of the visual in pornography and, in contrast, (once again) bring the textual constitution of reality to the forefront.
The event therefore addresses, first, questions of poetic technique: How metaphorical may literary pornography be, and how explicit must it be? What means and conventions does it employ to be suggestive and to evoke a response? What “effects of reality” does it utilize? Second, we must consider the role models and conceptions of the body that are portrayed in literary pornography. In their sometimes unreal, sometimes all-too-real fantasies, do these take on a more normative or subversive, consolidating or emancipatory character? And how should a—literary, analytical, theoretical—examination relate to the constitutive and performative power of the texts? Third, the aesthetic alliances of the pornographic—with the obscene or the drastic, for example—must be taken into account. To what extent, then, do the very limits of what can be said and depicted become thematic within the literary medium? To what extent do the texts test both what is reasonable and what is unreasonable by aiming to transgress conventions and embrace excess? Does the pornographic even allow for coming to terms with it?
>> In Memoriam: Shantala Hummler (1987–2024)
(accessed on April 15, 2024, at https://www.buchjahr.uzh.ch)
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SCHEDULE
Fri, 02 Dec 22 - 7pm-10pm
LANGUAGES
German
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