Lehrende/r: Haris Giannouras
Veranstaltungsart: Projektseminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 3,0
Unterrichtssprache: Deutsch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: 3 | 25
Inhalt: A publication-based project in the framework of the working group Mortal Astronauts. In response to the legacy of Costas Taktsis‘ seminal work “The Third Wedding Wreath“ (1962) we will work through a selection of research materials, including Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction“ (2019) and Jamie Crewe’s film Pastoral Drama (2018) in dialogue with abstracts from the novel as they relate to questions of passing. The results will be compiled in the form of a publication. The seminar sessions take place in English and German. The plot of the novel is set primarily during the civil war and Occupation period. The protagonists and narrators are two women, Nina, and her friend Ekavi, who live through these periods and faithfully describe the climate of the time through their personal stories. Throughout the entire text Taktsis mediates his queerness in an eclectic manner. Sometimes it’s evident and earnest, others it’s masterfully hidden, at least to the untrained eye. In 1988 the author was found murdered in his home by his sister. He was cruising the night before wearing women’s clothes. The case was never solved. His contributions and proper historical contextualization have been flawed and unfinished, with either a sensationalist interest in his untimely passing or a blatant washing out of any hints of queerness from his work in the face of an absolutist history of Greekness. The results of our research will be presented at the symposium “Hugs, Tables & Assemblies: Considering Coexistence”, organized in collaboration with the Artist Residency in Schloss Balmoral. The symposium takes it cue from Hannah Arendt’s writings on the object of the table as a stand-in for coexistence and will address questions of Othering and the precarity of togetherness. Research Materials Ursula K. Le Guin. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. London: Ignota, 2019. Paul Preciado. Can the Monster Speak? Report to an Academy of Psychoanalyst. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2021. Carla Lonzi. Self-Portrait. London: Divided Publishing, 2021. Pastoral Drama (2018), by Jamie Crewe
