Race, Art, and Love
In diesem Seminar diskutieren wir Darstellungen von race, Kunst und Liebe in Filmproduktionen von den 1970er Jahren bis zum Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts. Anhand verschiedener Genres wie Spielfilmen, Essayfilmen und Künstlervideos untersucht das Seminar künstlerische Mittel, mit denen Fragen von race in Bezug auf Gender, sexuelle Orientierung und Liebesbeziehungen behandelt werden. Historisch gesehen wurden Fragen der Kunst, der race relations und der Liebe oft getrennt behandelt und manchmal sogar als miteinander in Konflikt stehend verstanden – entweder man leistet politisch relevante Arbeit oder man beschäftigt sich mit ästhetischen Problemen und emotionalen Angelegenheiten. Im Rahmen antikolonialer und antirassistischer Kämpfe führte die Betonung der propagandistischen Dimensionen von Kunstwerken oft dazu, dass vermeintlich untergeordnete Fragen der Ästhetik und Emotionalität vernachlässigt wurden. Im Gegensatz zu solchen exklusiven Konzepten befassen sich die ausgewählten Filme unseres Seminars mit den Wechselbeziehungen zwischen sozialen Strukturen, die von rassistischen, sexistischen und homophoben Einstellungen geprägt sind, und den individuellen Bemühungen, künstlerische Anliegen, sexuelle Wünsche und Liebesbeziehungen zum Ausdruck zu bringen. Die meisten dieser Filme stellen Künstler*innen als Hauptfiguren in den Mittelpunkt und begleiten sie bei der Bewältigung von Ambivalenzen und Widersprüchen, die sich aus dem Spannungsfeld zwischen politischem Engagement, emotionalen Bedürfnissen und künstlerischen Ambitionen ergeben können.
Vorläufige Liste der Regisseur*innen: Sara Gomez, Kathleen Collins, Julie Dash, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Cheryl Dunye, Isaac Julian, Rodney Evans, Barry Jenkins
Race, Art, and Love In this seminar, we will discuss representations of race, art and love in cinematic productions from the 1970s to the early 21st century. Including a variety of genres such as feature films, essay films and artist videos, the seminar explores the artistic means of addressing issues of race in relation to gender, sexual orientation and love relations. Historically, questions of art, race relations and love have often been treated separately, sometimes even been understood as being in conflict – you either do politically relevant work, or engage in aesthetic problems and emotional affairs. Within frameworks of anti-colonial and anti-racist struggles, the stress on the propagandist dimensions of artworks often denigrated supposedly subordinate questions of the aesthetic and the emotional. In contrast to such exclusionary concepts, the selected films of our seminar address interrelations of social structures marked by racist, sexist and homophobic attitudes, and individual efforts to freely express artistic concerns, sexual desires and love attachments. The majority of these films center on artists as their main characters and follow them in their negotiations of ambivalences and contradictions that may result from the triangulation of political commitment, emotional needs and artistic aspirations. Preliminary list of directors: Sara Gomez, Kathleen Collins, Julie Dash, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Cheryl Dunye, Isaac Julian, Rodney Evans, Barry Jenkins
Race, Art, and Love In this seminar, we will discuss representations of race, art and love in cinematic productions from the 1970s to the early 21st century. Including a variety of genres such as feature films, essay films and artist videos, the seminar explores the artistic means of addressing issues of race in relation to gender, sexual orientation and love relations. Historically, questions of art, race relations and love have often been treated separately, sometimes even been understood as being in conflict – you either do politically relevant work, or engage in aesthetic problems and emotional affairs. Within frameworks of anti-colonial and anti-racist struggles, the stress on the propagandist dimensions of artworks often denigrated supposedly subordinate questions of the aesthetic and the emotional. In contrast to such exclusionary concepts, the selected films of our seminar address interrelations of social structures marked by racist, sexist and homophobic attitudes, and individual efforts to freely express artistic concerns, sexual desires and love attachments. The majority of these films center on artists as their main characters and follow them in their negotiations of ambivalences and contradictions that may result from the triangulation of political commitment, emotional needs and artistic aspirations. Preliminary list of directors: Sara Gomez, Kathleen Collins, Julie Dash, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Cheryl Dunye, Isaac Julian, Rodney Evans, Barry Jenkins
- Teacher: Christian