Stefano Harney: Affordances and Insubordination

The Department of VISUAL CULTURE is pleased to welcome STEFANO HARNEY for a four-part seminar series open to all.

The second seminar will take place on Thursday, 20.04.2023, 18:00 in seminar room AC0440 (TUW, Main Campus, staircase 10, 4th floor). The seminars build upon each other but can be attended individually as well.

 

AFFORDANCES AND INSUBORDINATION

This first seminar in the Spring series will focus on the decolonization of the eight senses and the kind of study that can make affordances central to our practice. Affordances as an idea was developed by JJ Gibson, a social psychologist of sorts. But as a practice it is yet to be explored outside of certain areas of technological fields. An exception is in the work of Brian Massumi and Erin Manning. This discussion of affordances begins with the historical damage done by theories of interiority especially in their gendered and racialized foundations as explored by Denise Ferreira da Silva. This discussion is presented as a report from the field of ongoing collaborative work with the performance artist Valentina Desideri. 

 

Next events in the four-part seminar series:

25.05.2023
NEWARK/NEW ARK: LESSONS FROM THE DAMNED

22.06.2023 (with Dr. Ronald Rose-Antoinette, KHM)
THE REAL DEAL

 

STEFANO HARNEY (Dr.) is Professor of Transversal Aesthetics at the ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS COLOGNE and a Honorary Professor in the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. He is a scholar specializing in Black Studies and has taught in the fields of anthropology, sociology, art criticism, American studies and business and management. 2022/23 he joins the Department of VISUAL CULTURE as Professorial Research Fellow.

TU WienRoom AC0440 (stair 10, 4th floor)Karlsplatz 13
1040 Wien