Spring 2022, CairoThematic Course
Intercessing with artistic research
Course details
- Cycle
- Spring 2022, Cairo
- Length
- 7 sessions
- Format
- Online
- Taught in
- English
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About the course
"Intercessing with artistic research” is an interdisciplinary class that offers insights into minor performative artistic research strategies. While continuously asking what else artistic research can do, the class explores the multiplicities of processes operating in the periphery of doing research and making art. How can research and art still provoke and reveal minor performance in an era of social media and image consumption? “Intercessing with artistic research” is a journey through nondisciplinary thinking, beyond the notion of human as we know it. Starting with questions about human capacities and ethics in research, the class becomes a proposition to think beyond the human mind and body and invent gestures that are not yet.
Who teaches it
Dr. Côme Ledésert is a filmmaker, holder of two Master degrees in Urban Studies at Sciences Po, Paris, France and in Visual and Media Anthropology at Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany. He completed his PhD in artistic research from the University of Westminster, London, UK, under the supervision of Professor Joshua Oppenheimer, Oscar- nominated filmmaker (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence). His research interests are interdisciplinary, at the intersection of Film and Performance Studies, Philosophy, Psychiatry and Anthropology. He is a practitioner of art/science research, experimenting new models of working dealing with performative nonfiction filmmaking strategies, mental health narratives and long durational performance art.
Course flow
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Discussing how research develops artistic and creative techniques to value what is human with the example of the corporeal
- The corporeal imageMacDougall, D. (2006). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
- Affirmation versus VulnerabilityBraidotti, R. (2006). Symposium, 10(1), 235-254.
Exploring how the more than human and nonhuman relate to research creation
- Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivismde Castro, E. V., 1998. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 4(3), p.469.
- The function of reasonWhitehead, A. (1971). 7th ed. Boston: Beacon Press.
Questioning the notion of method in the process of making artistic research
- Against MethodManning, E. (2015). In: Vannini, P. (2015). Non-representational methodologies. London: Routledge. 52-71.
Investigating how the social, the mental and the environmental are imbricated in the doing of artistic research
- The Three EcologiesGuattari, F. (2000). London: The Athlone Press.
Studying how the powers of the false are a key concept of practice-led research
- Cinema 2: The Time-ImageDeleuze, G. (1989). Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P.
Considering fabulation as a series of techniques in the making of artistic research
- Cinema 2: The Time-ImageDeleuze, G. (1989). Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P.
Considering fabulation as a series of techniques in the making of artistic research
- Cinema 2: The Time-ImageDeleuze, G. (1989). Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P.
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