Course at the Cooperation Center for Science & Art: The lecture series traces the myth of Pygmalion, its tradications and its layers of (in)meaning from antiquity and to the present. Starting from Ovid's master narrative and related figurative transformations such as those of Narcissus or the Propoetides, the focus is on artificially produced statues that imitate living bodies.
"Pygmalion. Artificial Bodies and Living Statues in the Arts Dates March 22 to June 21, 2023 Wednesdays from 11.15-12.45 Unipark Nonntal, Erzabt Klotz-Str. 1, HS 3 Georg Eisler (E.003) Conception & LV-Leadership
Manfred Kern, Romana Sammern
The lecture series questions the relationship between the body as a material, inanimate artifact and as a living subject. Representatives of various disciplines of cultural studies will shed light on this tension between imitation and animate, imagination and materiality, body and body fiction, but also on the gender question between creation and creator. Students can register for the lecture series in PlusOnline or MozOnline under LV-Nr. 901.356.