Project Work in the Intercultural Context Focus: Western (Central European) and Southern Asian Culture (India)

The seminar in the context of “aesthetic theories” is a supplementary course to the intercultural project “ConCom”, being carried out in cooperation between LIA – Lab Inter Arts (Mozarteum Salzburg), Boston University (USA) and Kala Academy/Goa (India). The seminar is being offered in the context of the “Schwerpunkt Wissenschaft und Kunst” (Focus on Science and Art) of the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg and the University Mozarteum Salzburg.

The seminar focuses on:

• philosophical and religious issues as well as social and societal issues, in relation to Indian culture and in relation to the planned performative laboratory work in India;
• aesthetic manifestations of selected Indian arts in the fields of sound, dance and performance;
• project conditions that will be oriented on contextual circumstances and resources;
• documentation forms of the initial project development phase and its planned evaluation in the SS 2010.

In its first phase, the ConCom-project, which has been planned for a period of several years, will go to Mumbai and Goa in December 2009. In January 2010, after the participants' return, the course will continue on a regular basis.

Required reading

MALL, Ram Adhar: Philosophie im Vergleich der Kulturen. Interkulturelle Philosophie – eine neue Orientierung
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1995
HAN, Byung-Chul: Hyperkulturalität. Kultur und Globalisierung
Merve, Berlin 2005