On Friendship and the Political Imaginary

This course explores the intersections of politics, affiliation, and the ontology of friendship, particularly within contemporary art practices, theories, and institutions. The course combines online workshops and lectures with face-to-face intensives held at various locations across Europe, and takes place in from September to December each year with an application period in each Spring.

Framed as an inquiry-based process, the course draws from cutting-edge research and asks participants to develop a project proposal relevant to their own practice—whether that be in theory, criticism, art making, curatorial work, cultural studies, philosophy, or research across the creative arts and humanities. PhD researchers from both arts-based and non-arts disciplines are also welcome to audit the course as guest researchers.

In recent years, the course has featured guest speakers such as Céline Condorelli, Quinsy Gario, Maria Hlavajova, Steven Henry Madoff, Walter Mignolo, Jota Mombaça, Sarah Pierce, Bojana Piškur, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Helena Reckitt, Grace Samboh & Ratna Mufida, Shuddha Sengupta, Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach, and Claire Tancons.

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