Realities & Fantasies - Workshop of the Amsterdsam School for Cultural Analysis April 2019 (original) (raw)

ASCA Workshop 2019 ‘Realities and Fantasies’ Relations, Transformations, Discontinuities 10-12 April, organized by Divya Nadkarni, Alex Thinius, Nadia de Vries. Keynote lectures: • Jonathan Culler (Cornell University): Fantasizing Narrators for Novels and Speakers for Poems • Annabelle Dufourcq (RU Nijmegen): Do we have to be Realistic? The imaginary dimension of the real: a phenomenological approach to imagination, images and the imaginary field. • Nkiru Nzegwu (SUNY Binghamton): Dancing the In-Between: The Immense Power of Madness • Susanna Paasonen (University of Turku): Thinking Sex, Thinking Play “Fantasy is precisely what reality can be confused with. It is through fantasy that our conviction of the worth of reality is established; to forgo our fantasies would be to forgo our touch with the world.” (Stanley Cavell) What are the contemporary ways in which reality and fantasy relate, how do they contrast, and how, under what conditions, can one transform into the other? In the workshop, artists and scholars from a range of approaches, cases, and places, discuss the kinship between realities and fantasies and its contemporary use. Papers focus on love and desire in the time of tinder, AI, authenticity, narrative selves, enactment, transliminality, futurism, utopism, nationalisms, absurdity, oppressive regimes, trauma, ‘grotesque’ bodies, animal sanctuaries, magical realism, sound, intentionality, discovery between arts and science, and the normative use of art and literature. Next to paper presentations, there is an exhibition, and a workshop performance. Keynote lectures will take place in Doelenzaal, Singel 425, the concluding keynote panel will be in the VOC zaal, Bushuis. Everyone is welcome to the keynotes and panels. More info: https://realitiesfantasies.wordpress.com/