Reading Group
Social engagement and anti-discriminatory methodologies in Art and Design / Wintersemester Seminar at the Muthesius University of Art and Design, Kiel, Germany.
Using current discourse generated by events such as documentafifteen and the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, we may look at our own lived experiences as learning and unlearning communicators and ask, “How can we use verbal, visual and other languages to represent and reframe ideas, tropes and power structures?”
Accompanying our bi-weekly reading sessions are lectures, workshops and a walking tour with Kiel Postkolonial , hosted by the Diversity Commission’s ‘Picture This!’ event series.
A cooperation between the Diversity Commission and the Fine Art Department of the Muthesius University of Fine Art and Design. The language of instruction is German. Led by Felisha Maria Carénage + Marina Röh.
Poster and Instagram Identity for Picture This! which hosted Guest Lectures and Workshops at the Muthesius University, within the frame of the Reading Group. Graphic Design by Debora Bialowons.
Lecture 19.12.2022
Unter den Nägeln brennt es – An aesthetic and sociological study of nail design and nail art with Fernanda Braun Santos
Workshop 23.01.2023
Complainers and Killjoys, with HOER NY: Coven Berlin and Cem A. of Freeze Magazine.
Walking Tour 29.01.2023
Postcolonial City, with Laura of Kiel Postkolonial
Public Talk 24.11.2022
with Övül Ö. Durmusoglu and Joanna Warsza
Public Talk 30.11.2022
with Natasha Ginwala
Lecture 12.12.2022
Diversity-conscious speaking – arguments and examples of application for (university) practice with Dipl.-Päd Esther van Lück
In the Summer Semester 2023, if the Muthesius University will fund it, a Glossary of Terms with the title Unbehagen Pflegen, resulting from work done in this seminar, may be published.
Participants in this seminar are also encouraged to contribute to the University Student Association’s first edition of its as-yet-unnamed publication, on the topic of ‘Change’.
Part of ‘Unbehagen Pflegen’, a year-long project on cultivating discomfort in the german art academic tradition, conceived by Felisha Maria Carénage, consisting of an excursion to the 2022 Venice Art Biennale, a feminist, decolonial Reading Group, a collective writing workshop and a publication in the form of an illustrated glossary.