Kunst - Film - Denken

"Kunst – Film - Denken" explores a specific type of contemporary film and video works located between art and cinema that consistently deviate from the usual classifications and definitions of both fields. These works are explored as space, medium and practice of a specific mode of thought that feeds on this very intermediate position. Alain Badious's concept of cinema as "impure" art and genuine way of thinking, which is and owes itself to movement, serves as theoretical starting point for the investigation. The project takes up this approach and investigates its potential for the genre of art film, which the philosopher largely ignores in his reflections on cinema as an art form. This is executed not only through a critical reading of Badiou's texts on cinema, but above all through the analysis of selected works, each of whose specific movements of thought are explored and made productive for the overarching question. How this kind of artistic-filmic thinking relates to the conceptual systematics of philosophy - including that of Badiou - is a question that the thesis will repeatedly take up and illuminate anew on the basis of the film analyses. The aim of the project is to make visible the potential of this particular type of film and video works as an independent, artistic mode of thinking inbetween art and cinema and to develop a tool for its investigation in the critical adaptation and modification of Badiou's concept of cinematic thought.

After several years in the film industry, Felix Laubscher studied cultural studies, political science and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Upon graduation he worked as an exhibition manager for Haus am Waldsee - Place of International Contemporary Art and for the International Society of Fine Arts (IGBK). Since then he has conducted research at the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK), first as part of the research project Design Kunst Lebenswelt – Ästhetische Strategien und Kulturelle Wirksamkeitand then as a research fellow of the DFG graduate school Das Wissen der Künstewhere he developed his PhD project Kunst – Film – Denken. In addition to his academic work, Felix Laubscher works as a filmmaker and freelance curator in Berlin.

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Das Ästhetisch-Spekulative. Spekulationen in den Künsten (AT), ed. together with Kathrin Busch, Georg Dickmann and Maja Figge, Bielefeld: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, expected 2019.

„To Jupiter and beyond... Stanley Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey – eine Fiktion außerhalb der Wissenschaft“, in: Das Ästhetisch-Spekulative. Spekulationen in den Künsten, ed. by Kathrin Busch, Georg Dickmann Maja Figge and Felix Laubscher, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, expected 2019. 

„In a Hotel State of Mind – das Hotel als Denk- und Erfahrungsraum in John Smiths Hotel Diaries“, in: wissenderkuenste.de, Onlinepublikation des Graduiertenkollegs „Das Wissen der Künste“, Nr. 7, FAKTENSchaffen, November 2017.

„FEEL FREE TO ASK ME ABOUT MY WORKING CONDITIONS. Eine kleine Stilkritik der documenta 14“, in: wissenderkuenste.de, online publication by the graduate school „Das Wissen der Künste“, Nr. 6, Learning from. Texte zur documenta 14, Juli 2017.

„5000 Feet is the Best – framing the "invisible" drone warfare“, in: CINECRI’16 - On Cinema and Violence, Conference Proceedings, ed.by DAKAM – Eastern Mediterranean Reserach Center, Istanbul: 2016.

„Filmisches Denken zwischen Repräsentation und Ästhetik“, in: Anderes Wissen. Kunstformen der Theorie, ed.by Kathrin Busch, Bielefeld: Wilhelm Fink, 2016, S. 245–271. 

„Film – eingefangen von der Macht der Dinge“, in: AUS STELLEN. Zur Kritik der Wirksamkeit in den Künsten, ed.by Kathrin Busch, Burkhard Meltzer und Tido von Oppel, Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes, 2016, S. 319–338.

„Hecho en Mexico. Krieg, Film und manipulierte Wahrnehmung in den aktuellen Arbeiten von Bjørn Melhus“, in: Bjørn Melhus – LIVE ACTION HERO, ed.by Katja Blomberg, Berlin: Walther König, 2011, S. 12–18. 

Lectures

„Prekäre Substanzen in Film und Literatur“, lecture event together with Petra Löffler and Georg Dickmann, Grüner Salon, Volksbühne Berlin, 16.04.2019. 

„Technik und Fantastik in den Videoarbeiten von Larissa Sansour“, Neunte Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (GFF), Université de Fribourg, Schweiz, 05.-08.09.2018. 

„Narrative Intervention Into Future Perception. Counter-Narration in Larissa Sansour’s In The Future They Ate From The Finest Porcelain“, Film-Philosophy Conference 2018, University of Gothenburg, Schweden, 03.-05.07.2018. 

„Speculations on potential emotional equivalents“,  Film-Philosophy Conference 2017, Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, 04.–06.07.2017. 

„Zur Förderung künstlerischer Forschung“, Kunst und Forschung, workshop by the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, 02.–03.12.2016.

„5000 Feet is the Best – framing the "invisible" drone warfare“, CINECRI’16 – On Cinema and Violence, international conference at the Eastern Mediterranean Reserach Center  (DAKAM), Istanbul, Türkei, 10.–11.06.2016.

„Fünf Gedanken zum Film als epistemischer Praxis“, Revolving Stars, Shaky Grounds | Konstellationen unsicheren Wissens in Kunst, Technik und Wissenschaft, internationales symposion a spart of  F-A-S-T (Framing Art, Science and Technology) by HBK, TU und HTW Dresden, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden, 03.–06.07.2014.

„Condensed Time. Constructing Fictional Memories through Objects?“, Things to Remember: Materializing Memories in Art and Popular Culture, internationale conference at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, Niederlande, 05.–06.06.2014.    

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