This two-week course explores writing as thinking and research. The focus is on how animals are viewed in philosophy and/or art. This is one of the most interesting developments in 21st-century thinking, and promises to bring astonishing things to light. Anyone who is serious about the question of animals will venture into a world in which nothing is as it was before: work, friendship, love, coexistence, art, politics and much more.
Here, writing styles are regarded as tools and modes of being which can help us to develop new perspectives and forms of expression. The focus is on individual writing processes, with the aid of one-to-one conversations, group reflection and readings of various texts. The course invites participants to question established forms and embark on new directions. Precision, humour and elegance will be addressed, as well as experimental approaches.
The course is open to anyone interested in writing and thinking; no previous experience is required – only curiosity, courage and a desire to explore. Together we will work towards a language which makes the world perceptible in a more differentiated way – and which changes our way of thinking.
Information
- Venue
- Hohensalzburg Fortress
- Date
- 4. – 16. 8. 25
- Teaching language
- English (German possible)
- Participation fee
- 670 Euro (reduced 495 Euro)
- Requirements
- A motivation letter (max. 1 page), CV
- 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).
