Talk by Zairong Xiang, Assist. Professor of Comparative Literature and Associate Director of Art, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, China, followed by an open discussion with Paula Schwerdtfeger, Curatorial Assistant, Sprengel Museum Hannover In his talk Zairong Xiang reflects on some of the quick-fixes that emerge in the past months living with the Corona-virus. These solutions resonate with strategies in art and daily life to “have something when there is almost nothing.” In his research, Zairong Xiang takes a decolonised approach in crossing feminist and queer theory with literary and visual studies. Currently, he helds an assistant professorship at Duke Kunshan University in China from where he joins the Zoom-talk. Zairong Xiang is Postdoc Researcher at the Research Training Group Minor Cosmopolitanisms at Potsdam University. #sprengelmuseum #hannover #sprengeltalks #howtosurvive #exhibition #artmuseum #modernart #contemporaryart www.sprengel-museum.de

Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False Present, c. 1930 Conference "Deep Time and Crisis, c. 1930" English original version Lecture, May 27, 2018 More information: https://www.hkw.de/en/1930 Film and production: Ralf Klingelhöfer

Watch the full video https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/the-ontology-of-the-couple/ Can one be queer and coupled? Or is the logic of complementarity that subtends the couple fundamentally at odds with queer existence? In 1998 Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner wrote that ‘making a queer world has required the development of kinds of intimacy that bear no necessary relation to domestic space, to kinship, to the couple form, to property and to the nation’. Since then, however, we have witnessed the couple form move from the periphery to the center of queer politics, becoming the major vehicle through which gays and lesbians have achieved access to cultural and legal institutions as well as broader social acceptance. While before the late twentieth century same-sex relations circulated largely outside what Foucault called the ‘monogamic and conjugal cell’, today it seems even the most peripheral of sexualities have been absorbed under the couple’s ever-expanding jurisdiction. Does the present moment require a more honest reckoning with the central role of the couple in queer politics and everyday life? Or do we need, now more than ever, to revitalize our commitment to the production of a sexual politics that would resist the ideology of the couple? This two-day symposium brings together some of the most significant voices in Anglo-American queer theory today to address the historical, cultural, and metaphysical force of the couple—and its often unquestioned status in queer life. Organized by Pearl Brilmyer, Filippo Trentin, Zairong Xiang Co-organized by Hila Amit, and in cooperation with the Zentrum für Gender- und Diversitätsforschung of the University of Tübingen (ZGD Tübingen) and GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

Mesa de discusión, en la que participan BRASIL. Pedro Paulo Pereira CHINA. Xiang Zairong Modera: Gloria Careaga