Sub(e)merging: Poetics, Temporalities, Epistemologies
Sub(e)merging: Poetics, Temporalities, Epistemologies
25. - 27.05.2023, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst
What is submerged lingers below the surface, is in the murk and the dim, barely visible and elusive. Macarena Gómez-Barris (2017) introduced the term “submerged modes” to describe complex and resistant forms of life and knowledge. These exist in specific material and media environments; sites of digital-capitalist oppression as well as industrial and neocolonialist exploitation, while also resisting these powers. Through their intangible density and illegible heterogeneity, these perspectives elude an “extractive view” from above, that is, approaches that aim at totalizing representation, disciplining, and capitalist valorization. Instead, they invite engagement with methods and perspectives that are equally submerged.
Seeking to open and expand the rich repertoire of meanings of Gómez-Barris’s concept—and focusing on its generative potential by slightly altering its terminology—the artistic and scholarly contributions of the workshop probe the transformative potentials of operating and perceiving from below, especially in times of political and ecological crisis: Can submerging be turned into an aesthetic strategy? What role do imaging media and technologies play in the visualization of the submerged? To what extent are forms of representation or supposedly evident spatial, temporal, and historical orders called into question? How does it relate to the underground in its many geological-material and symbolic meanings? And what happens if we take seriously the processes of gathering and evolving inherent in the term submerging? In other words: What emerges in submersion?
Anmeldung: medienwissenschaft@uol.de
Konzept und Organisation: Marie Sophie Beckmann & Petra Löffler
Unter Mitarbeit von: Jakob Claus