If you want to change the world you have to be able to imagine the world you want.
(Nalo Hopkinson)
Das Seminar beschäftigt sich mit Tropen, Formen und Manifestationen von widerständischen Strategien in spekulativer Fiktionsliteratur, Film und Kunst aus Diaspora-Perspektive. Gemeinsam gehen wir künstlerisch der Frage nach wie spekulative Fiktionen mit historischen und zeitgenössischen, emanzipatorischen und widerständischen Bewegungen wie Praktiken verbunden sind. Neben der gemeinsamen Diskussion von ausgewählten spekulativen Texten, Filmen und Kunst, wird im Seminar mithilfe von creative prompts, storytelling tools und feedback sessions fiktionales Schreiben praktiziert. Anhand der Kreation eigener spekulativer Geschichten stellen wir die neokoloniale Welt auf den Kopf, zerlegen dominante Systeme und imaginieren andere Zukünfte, Vergangenheiten und Gegenwarten.
If you want to change the world you have to be able to imagine the world you want. (Nalo Hopkinson) The seminar focuses on the tropes, shapes, and manifestations of resistant and world-changing strategies in speculative fiction, film and art of the Diasporas. Together we will artistically explore how speculative fiction is connected to past and present, resistant and emancipatory movements and practices. In addition to discussing selected speculative texts, film and art works, fictional writing will be practiced on the base of creative prompts, storytelling tools and feedback sessions. By creating and writing speculative stories we will put the neocolonial world upside down, dismantle dominant systems, and imagine other futures, pasts, and presents.
If you want to change the world you have to be able to imagine the world you want. (Nalo Hopkinson) The seminar focuses on the tropes, shapes, and manifestations of resistant and world-changing strategies in speculative fiction, film and art of the Diasporas. Together we will artistically explore how speculative fiction is connected to past and present, resistant and emancipatory movements and practices. In addition to discussing selected speculative texts, film and art works, fictional writing will be practiced on the base of creative prompts, storytelling tools and feedback sessions. By creating and writing speculative stories we will put the neocolonial world upside down, dismantle dominant systems, and imagine other futures, pasts, and presents.
- Teacher: Lydia