LECTURES

Marie Luise Angerer
24/03/2010, 20:00 hrs, Rijksmuseum TwenteBEING MOVED: DESIRE AND AFFECT
During the last decade affect, performativity and matter have played a major role within art, media and theory production. One could argue that affect functions as bridging matter and performativity, and matter has taken over the position of the subject. Therefore -  to perform - not only refers any longer to human beings but includes matter and other species as well. Whereas the subject of the unconscious (as in psychoanalysis) is defined as desiring its endlessly postponed idealized Ego the new category of - shifting species - performs matter and is moved by matter.

MARIE LUISE ANGERER
Marie-Luise Angerer, born in Bregenz, Austria, is professor of media and cultural studies at the art academy of media, cologne. From 2007 - 2009 she was the head of the academy. Her main research areas include media technology and feminist studies, the return of life, matter and affect in art, media and digital environments.

Publications among others: Edition (together with Zoe Sofoulis and Kathrin Peters) of 'Future Bodies. Visualization of Bodies in Science and Fictions', Springer 2001; 'Vom Begehren nach dem Affekt', diaphanes 2007; Edition (together with Christiane König) of 'Gender goes Life. Lebenswissenschaften als Herausforderung für die Gender Studies', transcript 2008.