Lecture

an diesem Ort war ich noch nie – Political Landscapes of Rest

Fanti Baum

an diesem Ort war ich noch nie – Political Landscapes of Rest 

Oftmals ist Landschaft ein Versprechen, das sich auf Ruhe und Erholung stützt. Aber was macht diese Landschaften politisch? Andersherum ließe sich sagen, Landschaft ist immer schon politisch, aber wo oder warum lässt sich in diesen Landschaften Zerstreuung finden? Der Vortrag basiert auf der Begegnung mit zwei Orten: einem Dorf in Brandenburg und der kroatischen Inselgruppe Brijuni. Ersteres ist ein ehemaliges Feriendorf für internationale Diplomaten in der DDR, während das Archipel als Ort erscheint, der diplomatische Geschenke versammelt: ein Zoo. Der Vortrag: nichts als ein Versprechen, – oder ein Experiment.

an diesem Ort war ich noch nie – Political Landscapes of Rest 

Landscape is often a promise based on rest and relaxation. But what makes these landscapes political? Conversely, one could say that landscape has always been political, but where or why can distraction be found in these landscapes? The lecture is based on encounters with two places: a village in Brandenburg and the Croatian archipelago of Brijuni. The first is a former holiday village for international diplomats in the GDR, while the archipelago appears as a place where diplomatic gifts are collected: a zoo. The lecture: nothing but a promise, – or an experiment.

Bio

Fanti Baum works as an artist and theorist at the intersection between art, architecture, and public space. In various collaborations, she realizes site-specific architectures, installations, performances, and collective processes. She received the Artist Award of the City of Dortmund, was an artist fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, and Artist in Residence at the Hamburg DFG Centre for Advanced Studies “Imaginaria of Force”.

Together with Sebastian Klawiter, she won the Public Art Award of the City of Munich www.heutekeinprogramm.de and the architectural ideas competition of the Fonds PERSPEKTIVE / Institut Français. She has been teaching performance, installation/stage design, and architecture in theory and practice at various art colleges and universities since 2015.

She co-curated the exhibition “Demonstrations. Making Normative Orders” at Frankfurter Kunstverein 2012; and – together with Olivia Ebert – the art and performance festivals “implantieren 2016”, also in Frankfurt, as well as “FAV18” and “FAV20” in North Rhine-Westphalia. She is currently a doctoral fellow of the DFG Research Training Group „Organizing Architectures“, Goethe University Frankfurt

The lecture series „Walks through living landscapes. Perspectives from three positions“ / Spaziergänge durch Lebendige Landschaften. Perspektiven aus drei Positionen has been conceived by Daniela Ortiz dos Santos, Carsten Ruhl, and Tim Pickartz through a collaboration between the the Center for Critical Studies in Architecture (CCSA) and the Museum Giersch der Goethe-Universität (MGGU).

In the scope of the exhibition SOLASTALGIE, this event is a cooperation between the CCSA and the MGGU.

Free of charge / Kostenfrei