Staying with the Trouble: Art, Ecology, and Multispecies Feminism
This seminar explores how contemporary art responds to the ecological crisis through feminist, decolonial, and more-than-human perspectives. The title references Donna Haraway’s call to “stay with the trouble”: to resist quick fixes and instead remain accountable to the messy, unequal realities of living on a damaged planet.
The course is work-oriented and centers on encountering artists’ practices—often through screenings of video works—followed by guided discussions on interdependence, care, extractivism, extinction, and multispecies cohabitation.
Dr. Regine Ehleiter
I am an art historian with a research focus on exhibition history, artists’ publishing, and the intersections of art and ecology. I am a founding member of the working group “Exhibition Ecologies.” Since March 2025, I have worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for Digital Arts and Cultural Mediation at Witten/Herdecke University.
Ziele & Kompetenzen
Thematic focal points: The course focuses on climate crises, ecology, sustainability, and planetary thinking, approached through feminist and multispecies perspectives.
Learning outcomes (knowledge acquisition): Students gain an overview of key ideas in feminist environmental thought and multispecies approaches, and learn how such frameworks can inform the interpretation of contemporary art dealing with ecological crisis.
Competencies (practical application): Students develop the ability to closely analyse and discuss artworks (especially video-based works), articulate interpretations clearly using an appropriate vocabulary, and connect artistic strategies to ecological questions in short presentations and discussions.
Maximale Teilnehmendenzahl
30 Teilnehmer