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Living in Installation See more: http://www.editorialconcreta.org/Storytelling-for- Worlds Borderlands. (Re)thinking Native Spaces Earthly-Survival, https://earthlysurvival.org/ With the term 'la mestiza' [hybridity] Gloria E. Anzaldúa Recently in historical, theoretical, and criti- detailed 1987 in "Borderlands. La Frontera" in prose and Pierre Huyghe, 2014, 19 min. cal natural science research, posthumanist poems both visible and invisible "borders." Among other (Untitled) Human Mask things infuenced by Anzaldúa Donna J. Haraway's approaches and a so-called "New " In Pierre Huyghe’s work, the boundary between fction and fgure encouraged the idea of hybridity for the 1990th to reality is blurred as he constructs an experience of the have come into the scope of interest. Here, criticize dichotomies between nature and culture, women, world. In masterfully, painstakingly staged settings, people concepts and methods are developed and men, non-humans, and humans. Recently, in discourses Living in and puppets behave as equals while animals and plants that deal with the complex interrelations of about the Posthuman (2013), Haraway (2015), appear to amble on both sides of the border of the imagi- and other feminist science and technology philosophers nature and culture and material(s), matter(s), nary. (Untitled) Human Mask, created in 2014, takes viewers again discuss our (in)visible "borders" to question the and discourse. to a Japanese landscape scarred by the recent tsunami Posthuman Anthropocene. In contrast to an anthropocentric view and and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. There we witness a Following these researchers students from Freiburg and hence also in comparison to an ethno- and scene inspired by real-life events: in an empty, dilapidated Medellín/Columbia came in contact, visited geographic restaurant, a monkey whose face is concealed by a tradi- Worlds androcentric view, they touch upon the concept places in Medellín and Freiburg to (re)think native spaces, tional theater mask seems to be waiting for customers who and tell each other science (and) fction stories. Through of human and non-human agency, natural and never come. Impatiently pacing the premises, stopping to We didn't cross the border – different media, they ask: What did we experience in our technical actors, expressing a multi-species listen for the sound of someone approaching, or gazing out the border crossed us. exchange? network. When dealing with the “diversity of the window, the character trapped in that surreal setting The installation combines topics of all workshops, invites to Chicano/a Slogan performs a routine whose theme, according to the artist life” in different public realms, images are discuss these different borderlands, it's a work-in-progress himself, is none other than the human condition. essential. This iconographic issue is not only questioning our posthuman world. Special guest: Nora See: https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/exhibitions/ concerning questions of representation in a Margarita Vargas Zuluaga, Universidad de Medellín pierre-huyghe-untitled-human-mask/ broader sense, where politics of images play a signifcant role issue elaborated by critical, feminist and postcolonial arts and cultural Film The Symposium Living in studies in the last decades. , Fabrizio Terranova//2016, 90 min. Posthuman Worlds To an even higher degree, it concerns our en- Storytelling For Earthly Survival wants to open up a creative and collaborative Donna Haraway is a prominent scholar in the feld of science visioning of future constellations of biodiver- workspace to think and discuss together facing sity and conviviality, insofar as these infuence and technology, a feminist, and a science-fction enthusiast who works at building a bridge between science and fction. the question: How do we live, and want to live Symposium the opportunity of shaping the present. In this She became known in the 1980s through her work on gen- nowadays, and in the future? with Workshops, way, they also referred to the close interrelation der, identity, and technology, which broke with the prevailing of theories, concepts, and practices that can be trends and opened the door to a frank, serious, and playful Special guests will be: Films & Installation experienced in the materiality and embodiment trans-species . Haraway is a gifted storyteller who Julia Bee (Media and , Bauhaus- of . paints a rebellious and hopeful universe teeming with critters University-Weimar) Hence, revisions of visual cultures of (bio)- and trans-species, in an era of disasters. Brussels flmmaker Lisa Handel (Cultural Studies, University Düsseldorf) Fabrizio Terranova visited Donna Haraway at her home in Katja Harbi (Photography and Cultural Anthropo- diversity as well as a transdisciplinarity- California, living with her – almost literally, for a few weeks, 2018 July, 20–21 logy, Berlin/Israel, https://www.katjaharbi.com/) oriented artistic practice targeting this highly and there produced a quirky flm portrait. Terranova allowed Freiburg relevant field of actions are contributing a Haraway to speak in her environment, using attractive Spoken language: German and English! fundamental part to the task of sensitizing for staging that emphasized the playful, cerebral sensitivity of Liefmannhaus & current and future questions and problems. the scientist. The result is a rare, candid, intellectual portrait Registration: [email protected] Kommunales Kino Feminist postcolonial and afro-futurist science fctions are Inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois’s concept of the color line, which

Symposium with Workshop 2018, July 21 an inspiration of Haraway’s cyborg fguration and theorists examines the zones of being and nonbeing, we want to walk https:/net.cs.uni-bonn.de/fleadmin/ag/itsec/projekte/monika/bmbf- Liefmannhaus, Goethestr. 33 for . Having been denied the status of the human through the streets of Freiburg with open eyes for our colonial eng.pg11.Liefmannhaus, http://www.genderingmint.uni-freiburg.de/images/logos/ Goethestr. 33 for a longtime Black and postcolonial authors have specifc history that still marks the public spaces where we move HS-Logo_BLAU.pngLiving in Posthuman Worlds 10.00 am Opening: Marion Mangelsdorf access to the concept of the human as well as the post- every day without being aware of it. These marks can at the The Posthuman in Science (&) Fiction human. A reading of Octavia Butler’s short story “Blood- same time not be seen as well as hurt people; it depends child” (1984) will explore the notion ‚becoming with’ (rather on which zone you move. We would like to remember our- than ) in her story about humans living selves in this workshop on what it means to be privileged, Program Workshops Session II-III together with another species. and ask questions about how it feels to live in the zone of 10.15 am Zone of Being and Nonbeing Dagmar Fink is a freelance literary critic and cultural theorist as well being and which consequences our actions have for others 2018, July 20 Cathrin Hausch & Veronika Brunninger as a translator. Her research focuses on a critique of representation, and ourselves. 01.00 pm Lunch break cyborg theories, queer femininities, popular cultures (especially Veronika Brunninger is a student of the Freiburger master program 01.30 pm Posthuman Choreographies in a science fction) and feminist studies. Studies. She is a (queer)feminist academic activist, Yoga 10.00 am Opening: Marion Mangelsdorf Media ecological [Bio]diversity Lab teacher and vegan cook. She is interested in art and non-western The Posthuman in Science (&) Fiction based research. Marion Mangelsdorf and students 10.30 am Dagmar Fink: Cyborgs in Feminist Workshops Cathrin Hausch is a student of the Freiburger master program Gender Studies. She is a (queer)feminist philosopher, observer, and lecturer. (Techno)Science and Fiction: Session I: Interactive Ethnographies as Parasitic Ecologies A Posthuman Figuration? She is interested in connecting categories by critically asking for their Kommunales Kino, Urachstr. 40 In contrast to the information theory of Claude Shannon, (historical) context. Language and 'culture' are her favorite objects/ 11.30 am Coffee & Lunch Break for Michel Serres confusion is dominant in every relation. tools/productions. Film with End Discussion The focus is not on the transmitter/receiver relationship, but Workshop Session I on the relationship between effect and noise. In this line of Session III: Posthuman Choreographies 04.00 pm Short flm (Untitled) Human thought, we use medial connections as a form of organic 02.00 pm Critical Zones – in a Media ecological [Bio]diversity Lab Mask (2014) by Pierre Huyghe medial-parasitic entanglement for our artistic research, in Interactive Ethnographies as The workshop opens up an experimental field, a 'Media- and end discussion with all guests, which phenomena and knowledge are radically intertwined. Parasitic Ecologies ecological [Bio]diversity Lab'. Therefore, we will discuss an who want to participate See: http://deglobalize.com Daniel Fetzner & Martin Dornberg interactive documentary referring to on-site experiences in a 05.00 pm End Daniel Fetzner is a professor for Design and Artistic Research marteloscope. Marteloscopes are hectare sized forest areas, at Offenburg University. where the trees are serially numbered. Through tablets, it's Installation with Discussion Installation Martin Dornberg, MD, Ph.D., Physician, and Philosopher is wor- 05.00 pm Borderlands. (Re)thinking Native Spaces possible to get data about the ecologic and the economic During the Symposium an Installation will be shown. king as Lecturer for at the Center for value of each tree. with students from Medellín and and Gender Studies as well as the Institute of Media Cultural Freiburg Studies at Freiburg University. Focusing on one tree, we will explore heterogenous per- Lecture Fetzner's and Dornberg's primary research interests are media spectives concerning this nonhuman species. Thereby, we Evening Event Cyborgs in Feminist (Techno) Science and Fiction: A ethnographic explorations, new materialism, and interactive face [bio]diversity as an interdisciplinary concept of 'nature- Kommunales Kino, Urachstr. 40 Posthuman Figuration? documentary. http://www.metaspace.de cultures.' Asking: How can we fnd ways of fostering variety in 07.00 pm Film & Discussion fora and fauna as well as variation in human ways of living? The idea of a cybernetic organism – in short: cyborg – Donna Haraway: Session II: Zone of Being and Nonbeing Marion Mangelsodorf is managing director of the Freiburger a system combination of man and machine emerged in the Storytelling For Earthly Survival Place/ landscape is forgetting well as remembering. Moving Gender Studies, and Gender in Science and Technology scholar. As a 1960s in the context of military research. The US American by Fabrizio Terranova through the streets of Medellín, Columbia, we did remember: member of the research group MBody she combines ethnographical biologist and philosopher of science Donna Haraway took it does matter where you come from. approaches with art-based research. up this militaristic 'techno humanist' fgure as a fguration for her feminist manifesto (1985). Concept & Layout: Marion Mangelsdorf