- 12.11.2021, 12.30 - 2.00 p.m.Dayticket solidarity pricing system (you choose): € 5 / € 10 / € 20 / € 30, Dialogues from Practice
Núria Güell: Radical Empathy
Dialogues from Practice
My art practice very often takes place in relation to others. And given that my practice is public, this implies displaying or exposing these other subjects – and my relationship to them – to public scrutiny. This forces me to adopt a position for which I can be publicly accountable, and for that reason – among others – I always try to ensure that the relationship is between equals. And what does that mean? Do I put myself in the identity of the other? Do I identify with the other? No: if I did, I would be an impostor. The only way to achieve a certain equality is through disidentification, by divesting myself of the identities that signify me and divesting the other of theirs. So, for me, if there is radical empathy, it can only emerge in its absence. In this presentation I will expand on these ideas using some examples from my practice, in which empathy – if it emerges – does so through divestment.
Sophie Mendelsohn: About the Ambiguities of Empathy. A Psychoanalytical Perspective
Dialogues from Practice
Empathy is not one of the concepts of psychoanalysis. However, it would seem natural that it should be mobilised to open the space of transference, which welcomes the patient’s word and allows it to unfold. But if it is indeed a necessary spring, in the form of a recognition of the value of the words addressed, it also constitutes a resistance to the assumption of singular words in its political dimension. In order to show its effects and the way it also affects bodies in a process of making them vulnerable, I will study two situations, both of which allow us to glimpse the impasses to which empathy could lead if it is not reinscribed in a complex process, associating identification and disidentification.
Language: English
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Cast & Credits
Curation: Sandra Noeth
A programme by Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main. Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, Goethe-Institut, Freunde & Förderer des Mousonturms e.V. and Rudolf Augstein Foundation. Supported by Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT). In cooperation with the HTA Lecture Series “(Un)settled. Performance, Protection, and Politics of Insecurity” an event of the Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft of Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen in cooperation with the Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT) and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, fundeded by the Hessische Theaterakademie.
Biography
Núria Güell
Núria Güell is born in Spain in 1981. Her practice is a practice of confrontation, of questioning evidence and moral conventions, and it usually involves moving pieces, action – be it legal or not –, moving individuals – be they accomplices or not –, or carrying out bureaucratic procedures. It also means making the public institutions that hire our services move in a direction they have not previously explored; it means getting them engaged instead of being mere spectators. Núria doesn’t understand artistic practice as a cultural practice, but quite the opposite: as a socially and politically necessary practice in which the cultural and the established are brought into play. See: nuriaguell.com
Biography
Sophie Mendelsohn
Sophie Mendelsohn practices psychoanalysis in Paris. Her research themes concern gender and race, with a view to questioning the possible points of connection between psychoanalysis and other disciplines. She was a co-founder of the Collectif de Pantin, which seeks to apprehend the subject of the unconscious from the blind spots of history where it is formed, particularly in its postcolonial dimension. The issues of racism, racialisation and segregation are examined both as determining the formation of the subject and as affecting the processes of subjectivation. See: www.collectifdepantin.org
