Opening Event: Un-/Inviting Gestures: Politics of Welcoming and Withholding in Art and Culture

With the opening event of the lecture series Un-/Inviting Gestures, the Doctoral School Cultures in Transformation presents the central questions of the series. The focus is on critical reflection on practices, structures, and approaches in art and culture that enable inclusion or reproduce exclusion. Welcoming gestures are understood as being shaped by historical, political, social, and institutional factors.    

The first event will also be an opportunity to come together to cook and eat: doctoral students and graduates of the doctoral program will prepare food under the artistic guidance of Ramiro Wong in advance. All participants of the opening lecture are cordially invited to taste the dishes and learn more about the overarching theme of the lecture series and the upcoming dates.  

Ramiro Wong is a research-based, transdisciplinary artist whose work encompasses painting, sculpture, film, installation, performance, and new media. His practice explores complex narratives of identity, displacement, and social dynamics. His current research focuses on the potential of smell and taste as mediums within contemporary artistic practice.