[spectre] Odysseys and Shipwrecks with Michel Serres | 30-31 July 2010 @ House of World Cultures Berlin

[sophie springer]

Dear readers,

For those of you who happen to be in Berlin this weekend: you might not want
to miss the following event with Michel Serres at the Haus der Kulturen!

Odysseys and Shipwrecks with Michel Serres: Summer Talks at the River Spree
in Berlin<http://hkw.de/en/programm/2010/wassermusik_2010/veranstaltungen_40696/Veranstaltungsdetail_46564.php>

On the occasion of the open air festival Wassermusik 2010 at the House of
World Cultures in Berlin, French philosopher and former sailor Michel Serres
will 'rock the boats' of our minds over the course of a two-day programme.

Having gone to sea for ten years, Michel Serres prefers "himself to become
the traveler who explores and discovers this third space between two
separate spaces." A meandering, overflowing thinking is typical for his
writings in which he philosophises about the world and the relation to self.
Shortly before his 80th birthday, this visit to Berlin offers the rare
chance to experience Michel Serres live in public! At the House of World
Cultures, Michel Serres will converse with Catherine David, Lorenz Engell,
and Alexander Kluge. On the second day he will present a specially conceived
"Irrfahrt" (Odyssey) allowing for manifold insights into his way of thinking
and working.

Michel Serres, born in 1930, graduated from naval college and the Ecole
normale supérieure in maths, literary studies and philosophy. He went to sea
for more than ten years. Since 1969 he taught history of science at the
Sorbonne and was a guest professor in Baltimore, Sao Paolo, Montreal,
Buffalo. He still lectures as guest professor in Stanford. In 1990 he became
a member of the Academie Française.


PROGRAMME:

Summer Talks Opening
Friday, 30 July 2010, 7pm

Keynote Lecture Michel Serres
Followed by a conversation with Lorenz Engell

Lorenz Engell is a professor of media philosophy at the Bauhaus University
Weimar. Since 2008 he has been the Co-Director of the International Research
Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM, Weimar).


Serres + 1 #1: Catherine David
Saturday, 31 July, 12pm

In addition to numerous publications on the theory of science – Michel
Serres frequently writes texts on art, focusing particularly on the painters
Vermeer, Turner and Carpaccio. In many works, he reconsiders relevant
questions concerning the theory and practice of art: as a philosopher of
relations, Serres goes beyond traditional knowledge systems and navigates
undefined, interstitial spaces. Kicking off the second day, Catherine David
will engage in a conversation with Michel Serres.

Catherine David is an art historian, art mediator, curator of exhibitions
such as: Documenta X, and has headed the project "Représentations
Contemporains Arabes" since 1998. In 2006, she curated the exhibition
"Di/Visions. Culture and Politics in the Middle East” at the House of World
Cultures, in June 2010 she was a Co-Curator of the Berlin Documentary Forum.



Serres + 1 #2: Alexander Kluge
Saturday, 31 July, 2pm

"Sail towards the setting sun, until you see a certain small algae drifting
in the water, as soon as the sea turns very, very blue, keep to the left."

Angels, messengers, transmitters – Mediators are what fascinate Michel
Serres. Together with Alexander Kluge, he explores communication routines,
modes of perception and intermediaries. In the process, both his mediality
and the relationship of local to global take centre stage. Where are the
landscapes and places in which thall the senses? Do we need a new language
to describe it?


Odyssey: Lecture Performance
Saturday, 31 July, 7.30pm

"We lack a great philosophy of mixtures and crossings."

The philosopher offers the first public glimpse into his wandering mind. In
the process, he reveals how he creates his texts that flow back and forth
between literature, essay and philosophy. Using sounds from nature, Michel
Serres develops the relation between science and music and offers a deeper
insight into his wide-ranging work and thought.


Admission: 5,- / 3,- Euros

All events with simultaneous translation (French / German / English)

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin
www.hkw.de

The event is curated by Susanne Stemmler and Cordula Hamschmidt (Haus der
Kulturen der Welt), the concept was developed by Elisa Barth, Peter Gente,
Tom Lamberty und Sophie Springer (Merve Verlag <http://www.merve.de>).

Kindly supported by the French Embassy in Berlin and the Institut Français.
Special thanks also to Sophie Bancquart and Alexandre Plank.



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