#INSTAR @ documenta: Antisemitism, Eichmann, Banality of Evil

Name: #INSTAR @ documenta: Antisemitism, Eichmann, Banality of Evil
Uploaded: 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z
Duration: 4090 s
Channel: Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt (INSTAR)

Antisemitism, Eichmann, Banality of Evil Guests: Renata Stih Artist, Prof. at Berlin College of Technology (BHT) - Art & Technology, Film & Media - & Prof. at Leuphana University, Lüneburg Fand Frieder Schnock Artist, curator, educator & adviser, art historian (Ph.D.), lecturer at Berlin College of Technology (BHT) and Prof. at Leuphana University, Lüneburg Thomas Meyer Professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and a scholar of Jewish philosophy and intellectual history Roger Berkowitz AD Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, Prof. of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College Three leading German artists and scholars ask after the cultural resonance of Hannah Arendt’s lifelong confrontation with the problems of evil, antisemitism, and racism. Beyond Arendt’s own work, we will consider how artists do and can confront the question of massacre, genocide, and evil. And in the context of Arendt’s work on antisemitism—for which she was accused of antisemitism—we will ask what does it mean to speak of antisemitism today. About guest: Thomas Meyer is a Professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and a scholar of Jewish philosophy and intellectual history. He is the editor of a new edition of Hannah Arendt's works (Studienausgabe Piper Verlag, Munich). Eichmann in Jerusalem appeared as Vol. VI in April 2022 (with an Introduction by Meyer and a 100 pages long Epilogue by Helmut König, Aachen). Meyer is the author and editor of many books about modern intellectual history. He has written extensively on both Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss. Renata Stih is a Berlin based artist and activist, art critic and curator exhibiting at major museums like the Lenbachhaus Munich, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, St. Louis Art Museum, and interfering with the cultural and social environment by creating multi-media installations and performances. Professor Stih has been teaching on art, film and technology at the Berlin College of Technology (BHT) for decades, and on public art and memory at various US universities and colleges including SAIC, MICA, RISD, Brown University. Stih acted as president of the San Marino pavillon at Venice Art Biennale, served as Chair of the Art Advisory Board to the Senate of Berlin, is a board member of Normandy Institute Foundation in Paris, and the co-founder of the Human Rights Watch Committee in Berlin. Dr. Frieder Schnock is an artist, art historian, gallerist and curator widely known for his artistic documentary photography, and public art and educational projects in Berlin. Schnock has worked as a curator in private and public collections, such as at the Museum Fridericianum in Kassel, and is the co-founder of the exhibition organizations Gesellschaft für Blickschulung and Loft 44/45 in Berlin. He is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sciences of Art at Leuphana University, Lueneburg, has created visual studies at the Berlin College of Technology (BHT), and also taught at various institutions like SAIC, ZHDK, NYU.

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2023

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Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt (INSTAR)

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Paris, France

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Speech

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