The motif of island appears in today’s political imaginary with amazing regularity. In such cases as Brexit and the annexation of Crimea, human flows gravitating to European coasts change the political and social landscape of European countries and beyond. The rise of nationalisms and newly-emerging borders, both real and imagined, can be considered as manifestations of 'insular' politics as well. The utopian potential of the figure of island and its promise of 'the second chance' are shadowed by its semantics of isolation and enclosure.
Prisma Ukraïna Workshop
Di 04 Dez 2018 | 14:30–19:30
Di 04 Dez 2018 | 14:30–19:30
The Island in My Mind. Poetics and Politics of Isolation
convened by Kateryna Mishchenko (Prisma Ukraïna Visiting Fellow 2018)
Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin
Approaching histories of Crimea, Rügen, 'Archipelago Europe' and other insular entities, our workshop aims to analyze the ways in which isolation and isolationism can be inscribed in biographies of places and people, and seeks to explore the transfer from personal experience to political-isolationist trends and vice-versa. Drawing from artistic and theoretical perspectives, we will discuss isolation as a spatial, political and aesthetic construct, as well as look at the possibilities of its deconstruction.
The public part of the workshop will be dedicated to discussing the relationship of isolation to political subjectivity. Does isolation afford any possibility of empowerment for people or communities deprived of political participation? How can individual experience and artistic strategy be translatable to a new political agency? How can one beat a path away from isolation? These questions will be discussed by Marina Naprushkina and Yassin al-Haj Saleh.
Workshop Program
Part I
14:30–16:00
Prora auf Rügen
Presentation by Marcel Noack & Sandra Schubert and discussion
Part II
16:15–17:30
Crimea
Presentation by Ksenia Marchenko and discussion
Participants:
Till Gathmann (artist), Stefan Henkel (European University Viadrina), Tatjana Hofmann (University of Zurich), Christian Luckscheiter (independent editor), Ksenia Marchenko (filmmaker, photographer and journalist), Kateryna Mishchenko (Prisma Ukraïna Visiting Fellow 2018, writer, curator and publisher), Marcel Noack (artist), Sandra Schubert (artist), Matthias Schwartz (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung), Susanne Strätling (University of Potsdam)
Part III
18:00
Public Talk with Yassin al-Haj Saleh and Marina Naprushkina
Moderation Kateryna Mishchenko
Please register via prisma(at)trafo-berlin.de
