“Doing Culture” Part I Positions on the Relation between Culture and Social (Music and Dance) Practice

As a continuation of the “philosophical café” in the SS 2006, we will again engage in discussion of subjects related to the theme area “cultural philosophy – art – pedagogy”, this time focusing particularly on process-oriented cultural work (“Doing Culture”) as well as on its sociocultural relevance and its relevance for (music and dance) pedagogy.

The course is being offered in the context of the “Schwerpunkt Wissenschaft und Kunst” (Focus on Science and Art), a cooperation of the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg and the Mozarteum University Salzburg. The course content is related to an interdisciplinary project being carried out by the DanceMusicTheaterLaboratory of the Mozarteum University (see: Interdisciplinary Project).

The themes of the artistic performance work are in close dialogue with the text-oriented work in the “philosophical café”. The focus is on concepts that challenge the arts of today, on the one hand in order to question their sociopolitical relevance and on the other hand, at the performative level, in order to experiment with sociocultural practice as a theatrical form.

Required reading

HÖRNING, Karl H. und REUTER, Julia (eds.): Doing Culture. Neue Positionen zum Verhältnis von Kultur und sozialer Praxis
Transcript, Bielefeld 2004