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Kerstin Stakemeier: Catastrophic Reproduction: Science Fiction on the Far Side of the Subject
Catastrophic Reproduction: Science Fiction on the Far Side of the Subject
(p. 157 – 167)

Kerstin Stakemeier

Catastrophic Reproduction: Science Fiction on the Far Side of the Subject

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  • future
  • artistic practice
  • art
  • art theory
  • contemporary art

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Kerstin Stakemeier

studied political science and art history, in which she completed her PhD in 2010. She taught a.o. at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Free University Berlin, was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. Since 2012 she is a junior professor at the cx centre of interdisciplinary studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Stakemeier was the initiator of the »Space for Actualisation«, Hamburg (with Nina Köller, 2007/2008) and realised exhibitions at a.o. Kunsthaus Bregenz (with Eva Birkenstock, 2010) and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (with Anja Kirschner/David Panos, 2011).

Other texts by Kerstin Stakemeier for DIAPHANES
Kerstin Stakemeier (ed.), Susanne Witzgall (ed.): The Present of the Future

The current outlook into the future seems to be largely informed by resignation and anxiety. The understandable scepticism which utopian visions of the future are met with today and the crisis ridden present give rise to nostalgic resorts to seemingly reliable ideas. The book The Present of the Future investigates our present relation to the future and asks which means and strategies artists and scholars pursue today, to gain a new scope of action for shaping alternative futures. How do they create potentials for change and for the imagination of possible futures beyond modernistic idealisms and romanticist projections into remote times? The Present of the Future is the result of the third annual theme of the cx centre for interdisciplinary studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.

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