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FaVU-RAIMAcad. year: 2019/2020
The course titled Radical Imagination is dedicated to exploring how different artists today approach the politics of imagination and the issues of what radical or militant imagination is.Within the lecture series imagination will be understood not as a cognitive capacity of an individual, but rather a sociological phenomenon. Our approach will be based on the conviction that most social institutions, such as nation states, marriage or others, are from a great part imaginary. As individuals and society, we must carry them out in our everyday lives and fill them with symbolism in order to lend them meaning. Radical imagination could be perceived then as some kind of substance from which all these institutions—but also society and individuals—form and acquire shape. At the same time, radical imagination has the potential to negate, distort, and re-create them.We will ask how art could move from drawing attention to the power play of this system to actively engaging in the pursuit of new, more equal social order? How does art today approach urgent social issues? Based on analysing specific art projects, lectures will articulate working theses on what we can nowadays consider "radical strategies" in art; what kind of art is considered to be "useful" and in which direction its theory and practice are moving; and also how the "militant imagination" of art is intertwined with particular political practice in alliance with resistance and solidarity.
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branch VU-D , 1 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-D , 2 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-D , 2 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-D , 1 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-D , 1 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-D , 2 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, electivebranch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
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