Concepts of Identity – Examined and Questioned in the Context of Experimental Project Work

Identity – a construct? A legitimating formula for power interests? An “archetype of ideology” (T. W. Adorno)?

In the interplay between individualization and de-individualization, between self-determination and heteronomy, identity will be examined in connection with artistic and art pedagogy laboratory work (music and dance) from the perspective of temporary and dynamic conceptual designs for life, which have to be constantly reconstructed. The exploration of selected aspects of personal and interpersonal identity will be based, for example, on a consideration of the concepts of the “patchwork identity” (Heiner KEUPP), the “vagabond” identity (Zygmunt BAUMAN) and the “diversity of partial selves” (“Vielfalt der Teil-Selbste”) (Helga BILDEN).

Required reading

BAUMANN, Zygmunt: Vom Pilger zum Touristen – Postmoderne Identitätsprojekte
In: KEUPP, Heiner: Lust an der Erkenntnis: Der Mensch als soziales Wesen.
Sozialpsychologisches Denken im 20. Jahrhundert
Piper, Munich 1995, pp. 295–302
BILDEN, Helga: Das Individuum - ein dynamisches System vielfältiger Selbste
http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~huebner/Studium/ws0001_pollack_aest-kom/Helga_Bilden_-_Das_Individuum.pdf, summarized by Chri. Hübner, pp. 1–7
KEUPP, Heiner et al.: Identitätstheorien. Das Patchwork der Identitäten in der Spätmoderne
Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1999