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Dynamics of Form II
Focus topic 2024
In 2024, the Warburg-Haus continues its two-year focus topic »Dynamics of Form«, which began in 2023. It invites a wide range of inquiries and perspectives to question both theoretical traditions of form reflection and to discuss concrete artistic and cultural (non-)forms. What cultural power do forms unfold in images and ideas?
Cultural and artistic forms as well as forms shaping societies forms are not firm and fixed, but always in motion. They emerge under particular conditions and they stabilize, establish and change across different times and cultural spaces. The question of the dynamics of forms allows us to pay closer attention to the forces at work in their migration and transmission. What is the relationship between their intrinsic potentials and the external influence of actors in changing historical, social, or political contexts? And how do art and culture reflect changes in their forms? Problems of form in the very literal sense are to be investigated, that is, geneses and adaptations, which possibly allow for insights into their dynamic preconditions precisely where the forms remain incomplete, or dissolve. What special role, then, do ephemeral, elusive, or distorted forms play?
Research into the emergence and reproduction of forms as well as their flexibility and elasticity has a long tradition at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg. With his philosophy of symbolic forms, Ernst Cassirer laid the foundation for a philosophy of human culture; Aby Warburg investigated the medial conditions of the distortion and transformation of pictorial formulas in the process of migratory movements. These traditions have been and are being continued in the projects ›Bilderfahrzeuge‹ (BMBF) on the materiality of pictorial traditions, in the project of digitizing the ›Image Index of Political Iconography‹ (DFG) as well as in the Centre for Advanced Studies ›Imaginaria of Force‹ (DFG), in which dynamic conceptions of the arts are discussed.
The program of scientific lectures and conferences takes place in close cooperation with the DFG-Centre for Advanced Studies ›Imaginaria of Force‹ (Universität Hamburg) and the NOMIS research group ›Traveling Forms‹ (University of Konstanz). In autumn 2024, an international Warburg Seminar on ›Energy Landscapes‹ is organized by the DFG-Centre for Advanced Studies ›Imaginaria of Force‹ and the Warburg-Haus.
Asp art of the focus topic lecture series, 2024 Warburg Professor Rafael Cardoso, Rio de Janeiro, Eckart Goebel, Tübingen, Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Studies ›Imaginaria of Force‹, Natan Sznaider, Tel Aviv, Universität Hamburg Fellow 2023-2024 at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study and Claudia Swan, St. Louis, Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Studies ›Imaginaria of Force‹, will speak in the first half of the year. Further events in cooperation with partners complete the programme: A projection of the new feature film Die Amitié. Ein Netzwerkfilm (Germany, 2023) by the collective Amitié in the reading room in cooperation with Flexibles Flimmern – Das mobile Kino, a dialogic tour of the artistic intervention Lost Homes / To Forget Beautiful Things by Israeli artist Hila Laviv in the Altonaer Museum, a concert and talk in the reading room about the splitting light compositions by Hamburg composer Michael Maierhof together with art historian Ursula Panhans-Bühler as part of blurred edges – Festival für aktuelle Musik 2024, a seminar in the exhibition Water Pressure. Designing for the Future at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, as well as a dialogic tour of the international group exhibition in the Gallery of Contemporary Art at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, untranquil now: A constellation of narratives and resonances.
Dynamiken der Form II
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Call for Papers: Internationales Warburg-Kolleg 2024 »Energielandschaften«, 14.–17.10.2024
Deadline: 15.4.2024
Franca Buss, Frank Fehrenbach, Laura Isengard, Mia Hallmanns, Cornelia Zumbusch Das Warburg-Haus Hamburg und die DFG-Kollegforschungsgruppe »Imaginarien der Kraft« (Universität Hamburg) laden Bewerbungen zum Warburg-Kolleg »Energielandschaften« ein, das vom 14.–17.10.2024 am Warburg-Haus…
Call for Papers / Dynamiken der Form / Warburg-Kolleg
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Just published: Political Emotions in the Arts
Mnemosyne. Warburg International Seminar Papers, Volume 7
Politische Emotionen in den Künsten edited by Philipp Ekardt, Frank Fehrenbach and Cornelia Zumbusch January 2021, ISBN 978-3-11-071130-1 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-11-072538-4 (eBook), € [D] 69,95 Languages: German & English Fear, worry, indignation, hate, contempt as well as trust, hope,…
Neuerscheinungen / Politische Emotionen / Warburg-Kolleg
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Just published: Memorial Landscapes. World Images East and West
Mnemosyne. Warburg International Seminar Papers, Volume 6
edited by Uwe Fleckner, Yih-Fen Hua and Shai-Shu Tzeng December 2020, ISBN 978-3-11-065646-6, € [D] 69,95. English As an everyday fact and an object of artistic design, landscape is a central category of human experience. Political, social, cartographic, and economic, but also philosophical and…
Neuerscheinungen / Warburg-Kolleg
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Call for Papers: Warburg International Seminar 2018 »Political Emotions in the Arts«
Deadline 31 March 2018
Philipp Ekardt, Frank Fehrenbach, Cornelia Zumbusch The role of emotions in politics is currently subject to intensive debates. Sociology, political science and political philosophy have identified such feelings as trust, hope, fear, outrage or contempt as motors of protest movements, as part of…
Call for Papers / Warburg-Kolleg
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Neuerscheinung: Magische Bilder
Mnemosyne. Schriften des internationalen Warburg-Kollegs, Band 5
“And if you were to ask me / After all that we’ve been through / Still believe in magic? / Yes, I do.” Diese Zeilen aus “Magic” von Coldplay stellen Uwe Fleckner und Iris Wenderholm ihrem einleitenden Aufsatz “Magie und Metapher. Wirkmächtige Bilder in…
Neuerscheinungen / Warburg-Kolleg
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Landschaft wahrnehmen
Mit dem Warburg-Kolleg "Memorial Landscapes" in Taipeh II
Zwei Meter, vielleicht drei. Weiter wagen wir uns nicht vor die Türe des Hotels, bis uns der peitschende Wind mit zerzausten Haaren wieder zurückgehen lässt. In Taipeh fegt der Taifun. Während des Wirbelsturms lassen die staatlichen Vorgaben das öffentliche Leben brachliegen, Schulen und…
Warburg-Kolleg
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Landschaft beschreiben
Mit dem Warburg-Kolleg "Memorial Landscapes" in Taipeh I
Unerwartet ist die Lautstärke, das unablässliche Rauschen, mit dem sich der tiefgraue Liwu-Fluss durch die hochaufragenden Felsen schiebt und dort in Jahrmillionen seinen Weg durch die erodierten Marmorschichten hindurch gefunden hat. Dort in der Taroko-Schlucht, unweit von Taipeh gelegen, nimmt…
Warburg-Kolleg
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Memorial landscapes. World images East and West
International Warburg Seminar starts next week in Taipei
Hamburg University / Aby Warburg Foundation, Hamburg, in cooperation with National Taiwan Normal University and National Taiwan University, Taipei The 2016-2017 International Warburg Seminar, to be held in Taipei on 26-30 September 2016 and in Hamburg on 3-7 April 2017 and aimed at doctoral…
Warburg-Kolleg