Semester 2013
Crises.States
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This Really Happened Here
March 22 until May 3
Exhibition
On Uncanny States and Bodies
April 24, 6.30 pm
Presentation, Lecture and Screening
Eva Egermann, Heike Raab and Luke Fowler
May 16 until June 28
Exhibition
Unsocial Socialbility
May 28, 6.30 pm
Performance and Artist Talk
From Liverpool to Here: The Institute´s Half Term Family Holiday Lakeside Conversation
June 18, 6.30 pm
Cindy Milstein
Paths toward Utopia
Lakeside 2.0

Crises.States

Foreword

Crises.States

«Every crisis has its good sides»: people have tried to comfort themselves with these words in recent years. Is the phrase «everything will be okay» still credible today?

The North American queer theorist Jasbir K. Puar conjoins in her research questions regarding disability and an analysis of neoliberalism. «This ‹crisis› is today no longer marked by transience, but is prolonged into a kind of normalization of the state of emergency.»1 The crisis also has an impact on the health and psychological state of a society and its individuals. The two exhibition concepts evolved along the catchwords deviance and abnormality as well as society and isolation. …>>