26 Jun 2019

Afternoon Seminar, May 8 2019, Aalto University

APPEARANCES OF THE POLITICAL


Politics is about politics, but it is also about aesthetics and material culture (flags, songs), i.e. aesthetic choices. What kind of an ‘aesthetic culture’ is politics? How does party politics differ from activism? What is the aesthetics of our everyday life? How do we use art and aesthetics in politics? And what might be said about the ethical/political questions provoked by landscapes?

May 8 scholars of the AP.POL network will present their ideas of aesthetics and politics – and they hope to have a dialogue with YOU. AP.POL aims to create a network for people working in the intersections of politics and contemporary aesthetics.
The network follows loosely the work of the Nordic Summer University study circle Apparances of the Political (2016-2018). Its first meeting was in Palermo, May 11. AP.POL aims to create a network of people working on the intersections of politics and contemporary aesthetics and cultural studies.

12-12:15      Presentation of the AP.POL Network
12:15-13      Elisabetta Di Stefano (University of Palermo): Artification as a Tool for Political Aesthetics
13-13:45         Carsten Friberg (Freelancer): Some Thoughts About Body Bildung

Snacks (offered)

14:15-15:00   Margus Vihalem (Univ. of Tallinn), On Political Uses of Aesthetics
15:00-15:45   Mateusz Salwa (University of Warsaw), The Ethics of Landscape

Coffee (offered)

16:00-16:30     Max Ryynänen (Aalto University), Political Concepts as Aesthetic Concepts
16:30-16:45     Jon Irigoyen (Doctoral Student, Department of Arts)
16:45-17:00     Jakub Bobrowski (ViCCA)
17:00-17:15     Shubhangi Singh (ViCCA)

Hosts: Max Ryynänen & Tiago Martins Pinto

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