Authenticity, the original, repetition or the fake are intimately connected concepts within aesthetic practice. They describe a desire for as well as the criticism on fictions of veracity or nativeness. Imagined as artistic strategies they reveal a mutual conditionality that goes beyond fixed distinctions. In fact, these concepts are circulating about each other and seem to be able to fictionally mediate and again dissolve the “truth”. The workshop addresses this process-related nature of all fictional forms and focuses on their transcultural dimensions.

 

13:30 Opening: Tobias Wendl

Introduction: Melanie Klein

 

13:45 Allan DeSouza (San Francisco)

Speaking in tongues. The Signifyin’ Artist as Truthful Liar

 

14:45 Stefan Römer (Berlin)

The Readymade as a Transcultural “Inter-esse”

 

15:45-16:15 Coffee Break

 

16:15 Melanie Klein (Berlin)

Creating the Authentic? Art Teaching in South Africa as Transcultural Phenomenon

 

17:15 Elizabeth Morton (Crawfordsville)

Disentangling Authenticities. The Mission Imagination and the Artist’s Quest for Modernity in Southern Africa

 

18:15 Philip Metz (Berlin)

Performance

 

Conzept: Melanie Klein, Doris Rebhan, Research Unit C 3 Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art. Comparative Perspectives on Historical Contexts and Contemporary Constellations