| Beschreibung |
Verantwortliche Lehrperson: Aaron Moulton "Tactical Media Literacy Workshop" with Aaron Moulton (the workshop is held in english) Session 1 - Manifesting Energy, Play and Spiritual Technology - Red to White This portion will focus on creativity as an energetic phenomenon with roots in bricolage, mysticism and powers of the mind. Case studies from anthropology, contemporary art, folklore and new religious thinking will inform this session. In the application section there will be an effort to guide students through a rich index of creativity-based spiritual practices such as meditation, ritual, an optional Prana breathing experience, automatic techniques and divination methods. Faith will be experienced and tested. Seekers become finders. Session 2 - Tactical Media, Black Propaganda, Code-Switching, and the Weaponization of Perception - Black to Yellow This workshop follows the masonic notion of the path, with the left hand representing evil/chaos and the right hand truth/order, the holder of knowledge can create decisions in accordance with understanding. This session departs from the spiritual to discuss mechanics of perception management and hacks for unlocking opportunities in faith. Subjects such as meme magic, memetic desire, hyperstition, pseudo-ostension, black propaganda, and forgeries will be discussed. Students will be encouraged to improvise their own ideas for how to build systems and interventions of tactical media. Ideas of faith and subversion will be experienced and tested. This session looks at socially engaged practice and how art is used as a political tool as seen from the left, the center and the right. Students will be asked to code-switch and brainstorm ideas based on a playful mocking of political positions in aesthetics: eg. what socially engaged art would the left make? What would the right make? This session will contain art deemed offensive or dangerous. Let go of politics and embrace creative solutions. |
| Literatur |
Aaron Moulton is a curator and anthropologist whose research looks at the ways in which creative expression is purposed and managed by new age communities, the global art world and propaganda initiatives. Having curated over one hundred exhibitions across Europe and North America, Moulton boasts a distinguished career, having served as in-house curator for the global brand Gagosian, senior curator at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City, and as editor for Flash Art International in Milan. Alongside his wife, he founded Galerie Feinkost in Berlin. He was recently the Head of Exhibitions and Special Projects at the art agency Creator Projects in Copenhagen. His recent research study was an exhibition and publication entitled The Influencing Machine (2022) which charted the impact of the NGO Movement on the visual cultures of Eastern Europe from the 90s to present day. For this research, Moulton produced an enormous oral history archive with over 100+ hours of interviews as well as constructed a large data-based archive that rebuilt all available knowledge pertaining to the specific NGO Network being studied. This groundbreaking story is an untold origin story about socially engaged practice, curatorial practice and tactical media. It shows compelling data about art’s role in social engineering and how artists were coercively influenced to become political activists. The project allowed Moulton to infiltrate the Right Wing cultural milieu of Poland which has itself become an extension of anthropological research in charting the avant-gardes of Eastern Europe. In addition to contributing written scholarship to peer-reviewed journals, Moulton regularly travels throughout the region to lecture, engage the public and continue the investigation of this research. |
