The Seminar of Aesthetics

The PhD programme at the Faculty of Arts, University of Oslo: “Musicology and Theatre Studies, Aesthetics, and the History of Arts and Ideas” (leader: Erling E. Guldbrandsen) in collaboration with the PhD programme for Literature and the “Aesthetic Seminar” at the UiO presents this International PhD Seminar on Modernism in 20th Century Literature, Music, Theatre, and the Arts. 

Open guest lecture with professor W.J.T. Mitchell, organized by The Seminar of Aesthetics.

Open lecture with professor William Watkin (Brunel University London), organized by The Seminar of Aesthetics.

THE FORART LECTURE 2011

The lecture will focus on the phenomenon of  “Wild Archaeologies” – that is, on archaeologies that have appeared in the history of knowledge outside of Classical Archaeology: Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge, Freud’s archaeology of the soul, Benjamin’s archaeology of modernity, Kittler’s archaeology of media – and even Kant’s archaeology of metaphysics.  

The celebrated and controversial German artist, Joseph Beuys (1921-1986), is as well known for his claim that “every human being is an artist” as for his sculptural oeuvre made of such unusual materials as fat and felt. He will here be put in a historical context, going back to the German Romantics, that reveals what his awesome and disquieting artistic and political ambition has been.

Susan McClary: What Musicology Can Bring to Historians

Jacqueline Warwick: The Aesthetics of Singing in Popular Music

Panel discussion

Wolfgang Ernst (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin). Innledning ved Eivind Røssaak.

Professor Mark B. N. Hansen, Duke University

Molly Nesbit is Professor of Art History at Vassar College and a contributing editor of Artforum.  Her books include Atget’s Seven Albums. Yale University Press, 1992 and Their Common Sense, Black Dog Press, 2000.  Midnight: The Tempest Essays - a collection of her essays on contemporary art - will be published in the fall of 2009 by Periscope Press. Since 2002, together with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija, she has been organizing Utopia Station:  a book, exhibition, seminar, website and street project.

Sabeth Buchmann is Professor of Modern and Postmodern Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Head of Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies. She is an editor of the journal Texte zur Kunst and a co-editor of ‘Polypen’ – a publication series on art criticism and political theory. Her publications include Denken gegen das Denken. Produktion – Technologie – Subjektivität bei Sol LeWitt, Hélio Oiticica und Yvonne Rainer, Berlin 2007, Art After Conceptual Art  (with Alexander Alberro), The MIT Press, 2006, Wenn sonst nichts klappt: Wiederholung wiederholen in Kunst, Popkultur, Film, Musik, Alltag, Theorie und Praxis, Berlin/Hamburg 2005 and Film, Avantgarde und Biopolitik, (co-edited with Helmut Draxler und Stephan Geene), Vienna 2009.

William Marx is Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Paris X (Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) and the director of the research group Équipe Valéry in Paris. His research focuses on the history of literary critics and esthetic theory in France and Europe, especially during the postsymbolic and modernistic periods. His publications include Vie du lettré, Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, "Paradoxe", 2009, Naissance de la critique moderne : la littérature selon Eliot et Valéry (1889-1945), Arras, Artois Presses Université, L'Adieu à la littérature: histoire d'une dévalorisation ( XVIIIe-XXe siècle), Editions de Minuit, 2005, "Études littéraires : Manières de critiquer", 2002, and Les Arrière-gardes au XXe siècle : l’autre face de la modernité esthétique, (red.), Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2004.