Open Seminar "THE REAL DEAL" by Stefano Harney & Ronald Rose-Antoinette

The Department of VISUAL CULTURE is pleased to welcome STEFANO HARNEY for a three-part seminar series open to all this semester. In the third and final seminar he will be accompanied by RONALD ROSE-ANTOINETTE for a joint presentation with musical interludes.
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In this joint seminar, RONALD ROSE-ANTOINETTE and STEFANO HARNEY will present material from their ongoing collaborations. This work concerns our slide against the professionalization of the senses. This collaboration seeks the militant preservation of the realness of flesh and feeling.
Not by contracting civility and citizenship, nor by substituting our transversal, strange experiments to the honing of skills and the definition of the present. Our radiance is too dark to be selective. And maybe what we do together is too volatile, tender, or febrile to qualify us for the task. Maybe we are too busy working on how to get to the other side of aesthetics, the other side of the sensational world, while moving hesitantly in the galactic, universal blackness of the hole. Music will be played.
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STEFANO HARNEY (Dr.) is Professor of Transversal Aesthetics at the ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS COLOGNE and a Honorary Professor in the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. He is a scholar specializing in Black Studies and has taught in the fields of anthropology, sociology, art criticism, American studies and business and management. 2022/23 he joins the Department of VISUAL CULTURE as Professorial Research Fellow.

RONALD ROSE-ANTOINETTE (Dr.) is a scholar and curator from Martinique who currently works as an artistic research assistant at the ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS COLOGNE. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of Caribbean studies, queer studies and art theory and criticism, and encompass two broad areas: Black and queer diasporic aesthetics of the twentieth century, and plantation economics, globalization and transnationalism.