The politics and poetics of enunciation in the Anthropocene Age March 2020<\/p>\n A programme proposed by Aliocha Imhoff & Kantuta Quir\u00f3s<\/strong> (curators and theorists, le peuple qui manque, Paris) on an invitation by microsillons (Marianne Guarino-Huet and Olivier Desvoignes<\/strong>) in charge of the Master TRANS – Socially Engaged Artistic Practices at the HEAD in Geneva. The Master-symposium is open to students in the Master of Visual Arts at the HEAD, ECAL and EDEHEA.<\/p>\n “In recent years, a vast theoretical literature has been considering giving Rights to Nature, and thus recognizing non-humans subjects who could officially enter into the political arena. But this kind of haste to make those who literally do not speak speak, those who “conjugate verbs in silence” as the poet Jean-Christophe Bailly puts it, could not be done without once again inviting this question, straight from the 1960s, that is to say “who speaks”, “who” can claim to “speak for” and according to what kind of relations – a question that emerged on the one hand in the wake of the death of the Subject pronounced by Michel Foucault or Roland Barthes and then radicalized by Gayatri Spivak, and on the other hand in the wake of the resurgence of subjects, of their “second life”, to be able to speak “for themselves”, without any instance of representation, from subaltern studies to feminisms and postcolonial epistemologies. When one wondered “Who speaks?”, a theatrical scene was opened with its protagonists, questioning the instances that structure the democratic devices, but also the history of documentary cinema, the practices of autofiction, psychoanalysis or ethnography. From this paradoxical history between the life and death of the Subject, a large corpus of literary, artistic and cinematographic works has emerged, and we could argue that it is the same today, when it is the silent voice of the world that is catching up with us, the strategies deployed by many artists nowadays become the site of a negotiation on the forms of exchange and ties with non-humans. Moreover, while the dominant model for thinking politically about the voice of non-humans remains the parliamentary system, that of representation and spokesmanship (since Bruno Latour, Politics of Nature, 1999), to which other nature-culture politics invite us today these proposals formulated from the space of art? It is the poetic and political enunciatives and contemporary controversies that cross the world of art and contemporary thinking today that will be discussed during this Master Symposium.”<\/em><\/p>\n Aliocha Imhoff & Kantuta Quir\u00f3s<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Introduction by
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