International colloquium | Positions: Philosophy, Research, Society

The international colloquium with guest lecturer and PhD in philosophy candidates? presentations will open a space of exchange and collaboration in between positions in Austria and Europe, with reflection on actual questions between art, philosophy, politics and the social. The questions that will be posed are questions of agency, empowerment and dichotomies. The international colloquium is a joint collaboration in between the two universities Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, proposed by the professors? Dr. Alice Pechriggl and Dr. Marina Grzinic.

PROGRAM:

25.04. 2016
Lecture | Alice Pechriggl: Denkakte: thinking as – and out of – performance
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Alice Pechriggl is a philosopher and a group analyst, she studied and worked in Paris (EHESS) and Vienna (University of Vienna, free-lance), since 2003 she is professor for philosophy at the University of Klagenfurt (Institut für Philosophie der Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften). In her work she is performing thinking as corporeal “vis formandi” in order to open up new aspects an to create new philosophical concepts; since 1992 she works together with architects, artists and musicians like Claudia Bosse, Markus Brandstätter, Martina Cizek, Gabu Heindl, Anne Selders, Burkhard Stangl e.a.
Last book: Eros, UTB 2009; forthcoming 2016: Zwang zu Agieren – Freiheit zu Handeln / Freies Agieren – Zwangshandlungen, transcript http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/philo/inhalt/282\.htm

The lecture is the second part of the Cooperation in between Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Philosophy Department and Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, PhD in Philosophy study program. It follows the International colloquium Positions: Philosophy, Research, Society with guest lecturer and PhD in philosophy candidates? presentations (14-15.03.2016) in Klagenfurt.