Stefan Hölscher
Ruhr University Bochum Germany, Theater Studies, Faculty Member
- Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Aesthetics, Theatre Studies, Politics, Performance Studies, and 40 morePoststructuralism, Gilles Deleuze, Dance Studies, Biopolitics, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Aesthetics and Politics, Jacques Rancière, Choreography, Felix Guattari, Chaosmosis, Biopower and Biopolitics, Speculative Realism, Nick Land, Graham Harman, Iain Hamilton Grant, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Kant, Salomon Maimon, Alfred North Whitehead, Bruno Latour, Henri Bergson, Karl Marx, Autonomia, Operaismo, Autonomia and Post-workerism, Isabelle Stengers, Juliane Rebentisch, Inga Römer, Critical Race Theory and Whiteness theory, Critical Whiteness Studies, Postcolonialism, Theories Of The Other/Postcolonialism, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Frantz Fanon, Gayatri Spivak, Edward Said, Stuart Hall, Ludwig Feuerbach, culture Stuart Hall african cultural trauma race race relations social memory heritage slave trade, Paul Gilroy, and Grada Kilombaedit
The scene we have just been observing in a short video clip which was recorded last year in Spring with the camera of a mobile phone by a male demonstrator in Frankfurt am Main and uploaded on Twitter afterwards, where it caused a... more
The scene we have just been observing in a short video clip which was recorded last year in Spring with the camera of a mobile phone by a male demonstrator in Frankfurt am Main and uploaded on Twitter afterwards, where it caused a controversial discussion in the internet, is both a political and a theatrical one. Its theatricality manifests a couple of political tensions in contemporary migration societies whose racism, according to Stuart Hall, has shifted from biological to cultural registers and patterns of argumentation. Therefore in my presentation I briefly want to tackle on the frictions resulting from this "entangled" situation by focussing on the main problematic of the scene: Whiteness as a symbolic position.
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Research Interests: Theatre Studies, Performance Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Postdramatic theatre, Theater and film, and 11 moreAvant-Garde Theater, Postcolonial Theory, Critical Race Theory and Whiteness theory, Ludwig Feuerbach, Homi Bhabha (Cultural Theory), Critical Whiteness, Sylvia Wynter, Postcolonialism, Kritisches Weißsein, Postkolonialismus, and Theaterwissenschaft
In my contribution to this panel I would like to investigate in how far the recent spread of the workshop format especially in the dance field in its difference from the formats of rehearsal, training, or showing can be situated in the... more
In my contribution to this panel I would like to investigate in how far the recent spread of the workshop format especially in the dance field in its difference from the formats of rehearsal, training, or showing can be situated in the area of conflict between group technologies and technologies of the self. At the end of my talk I will briefly say a few sentences about the durational event Life Forms which took place at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin from April 25 till 27 (2019). My proposition is that workshops take place in a tension between the form of collectivity they involve and the individual positions they put their participants into. Though historically they were conceived to foster groups in preference to individuals, in the present means and ends seem to have changed. Whilst in the Neo-Avantgardes of the 1960s many workshops were trying to produce other subjectivities, today they are rather about the reproduction of one and the same subjectivity: That of the individual. Seen from this angle, workshops establish both relations of individuals to themselves and relations inbetween exceeding them as individuals. They include not only a collective situation but also the formatting and formation of subjectivity in relation to that situation in terms of practice.
Research Interests: Dance Studies, Marxism, Performance Studies, Performance Art, Choreography, and 15 morePerformance, Work and Labour, Social Practice, Postfordism, Workshop, Living Theatre, Workshops, Yvonne Rainer, Collaborative practices, Judson Church Theatre Group, Relational Aesthetics, Postmodern dance, Richard Schechner, Social Choreography, Postoperaismus, Practical Turn, and Dance and Poetry In New York In the 1950s and 1960s: the Living Theatre
In my contribution to this double panel I would like to propose to rethink the workshop format in the field of dance in terms of a group technology being based on a sensuousness without prejudice of its participants which as such enables... more
In my contribution to this double panel I would like to propose to rethink the workshop format in the field of dance in terms of a group technology being based on a sensuousness without prejudice of its participants which as such enables dance as a primarily sensuous practice to enter yet unknown terrains. I will do so by in a first step referring to Mårten Spångberg´s recent prioritisation of the notion of dance over the one of choreography and in a second step by reconsidering a rather historical constellation, precisely the one of Ludwig Feuerbach´s aversion against Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel´s system of thought. What I want to propose by doing so is a parallel between choreography and prejudiced thinking on the one hand and dance and unprejudiced sensuousness on the other hand. With regard to Hegelian spirit Feuerbach asks: "If the essence of being is constituted by what is merely a determination of thought, how should being be distinguished from thought?" 1
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Mir wird es im Folgenden darum gehen, eine kleine Reihe von Überlegungen zur Emergenz anzustellen. Hierbei werde ich mich neben Jacques Rancière auch auf Luiz Costa Lima und den späten Wolfgang Iser beziehen. Unter Emergenz verstehe ich... more
Mir wird es im Folgenden darum gehen, eine kleine Reihe von Überlegungen zur Emergenz anzustellen. Hierbei werde ich mich neben Jacques Rancière auch auf Luiz Costa Lima und den späten Wolfgang Iser beziehen. Unter Emergenz verstehe ich mit letzterem eine vom Gegebenen abweichende Formierung, die sich anhand minder mimetischer Prozesse vollzieht und lange Zeit über, sowohl entlang platonischer als auch aristotelischer Traditionslinien, ‚gefesselt' war, wie Iser sagt.
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Dem zeitgenössischen Tanz wird immer wieder vorgehalten, er sei zu sehr mit sich selbst beschäftigt und lasse direkte Bezüge zur Erfahrungswelt der außer-künstlerischen Wirklichkeit vermissen. Stefan Apostolou-Hölscher hat in einer... more
Dem zeitgenössischen Tanz wird immer wieder vorgehalten, er sei zu sehr mit sich selbst beschäftigt und lasse direkte Bezüge zur Erfahrungswelt der außer-künstlerischen Wirklichkeit vermissen. Stefan Apostolou-Hölscher hat in einer bedeutenden Studie die historische Entwicklung von Wirklichkeitsbezug und Ästhetik im Tanz untersucht. Demnach ist die realweltliche Leerstelle des Tanzes viel älter und beginnt schon bei Jean Georges Noverre, dem Gründervater des Handlungsballetts.
