GRK 1678:  Materiality and Production

• Subject Area: Art History, Music, Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: from 2012 to 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 164317292

"Production" and "Materiality" are crucial terms of aesthetic and cultural history, which the Research Training Group attempts to explore in systematic and genealogical terms. Concepts of matter are produced by cultural dynamics, and these concepts vary historically. Even the production of ideal or immaterial values and concepts requires a material context and foundation. We thus aim to surpass the binary opposition of constructivist/relativistic versus materialistic approaches in order to employ historic and contemporary models of cultural and social practices in the wider field of aesthetic experience and aesthetic production (gesture, ornament, script, object art etc.). The Research Training Group cooperates with French, English and North American partners. The methodology and themes of the research programme are thus situated in an international context, which pays due consideration to the research foci of our fellow institutions: historical anthropology, ethnology and sociology as in the case of our French partners, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales or the Sorbonne. Expert representatives of disciplines not covered by the scope of departments that form part of the Research Training Group will be invited for guest lectures and workshops. The on-going cooperation with the French institutions mentioned above has been realised both on the level of research and of teaching (summer schools, colloquia). These activities will be intensified; double degrees / cotutelles de thèse will be offered.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
• Spokesperson: Professorin Dr. Andrea von Hülsen-Esch
• Participating Researchers: Professorin Dr. Ricarda Bauschke-Hartung; Professorin Dr. Vittoria Borsò; Professor Dr. Reinhold Görling; Professor Dr. Hans Körner; Professor Dr. Achim Landwehr; Professor Dr. Roger Lüdeke; Professorin Dr. Eva Schlotheuber; Professor Dr. Timo Skrandies; Professor Dr. Jürgen Wiener