This one-week course (28 July – 2 August) is aimed at writers who are currently engaged in a project and can bring their own texts, which may range from experimental approaches through to philosophy and science. Besides individual and collective feedback, Fahim Amir offers exercises that encourage writers to reflect on and rediscover writing processes.
The focus is on writing as a practice for exploring the non-human (micro-organisms, stones, plants, animals, ecosystems, other worlds). Individual conversations, group discussion and readings allow intensive exploration and new thought-provoking ideas. The course is open to anyone wishing to develop their writing practice, to experiment and to draw inspiration from transdisciplinary perspectives.
Information
- Venue
- Hohensalzburg Fortress
- Date
- 28. 7. – 2. 8. 25
- Teaching language
- English (German possible)
- Participation fee
- 410 Euro (reduced 320 Euro)
- Requirements
- motivation letter to Fahim Amir (about 1 page), CV, text sample
- What to bring
- Laptop, paper and pens
- Maximum number of participants
- 20
Fahim Amir
Fahim Amir is Professor of Philosophy at the Bremen University of Applied Arts (DE) and teaches at institutes including that of Language Arts at the Vienna University of Applied Arts. Amir's research focuses on the thresholds of natural cultures and urbanism, art and utopia, as well as questions of colonialism, cohabitation and transculturalism. Amir was academic head of the Live Art Festival (Kampnagel Hamburg, 2013), curator of art exhibitions (Vienna Secession, 2014) and symposia for New Music (international holiday courses in Darmstadt, 2016), and has worked with artists including Chicks on Speed, Deichkind, Ted Gaier and Rocko Schamoni. Most recently, he has written texts for: Burgtheater, Vienna; Stuttgart State Opera; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Carnegie Biennale, Pittsburgh; Mumok, Vienna; Performance Space, New York; e-flux Journal; Mousse Magazine and others. Amir is co-editor of Transcultural Modernisms (Sternberg Press, 2013), and wrote the afterword to the German translation of Donna Haraway's Companion Species Manifesto (Merve, 2016). His book Schwein und Zeit. Tiere, Politik, Revolte was included in the Top Ten of the best non-fiction books listed in Die Zeit, ZDF, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and was short-listed for the Prix François Sommer; the Goethe Institute and Frankfurt Book Fair elected it one the best books of the year. It has been entirely translated into English (Between the Lines, 2020), Persian (Elm, 2021) and French (Editions Divergences, 2022), and excerpts into Chinese, Arabic and Turkish. The Portuguese translation is to be published this year by the Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science (CLE Unicamp, São Paulo).
