We’re excited to share that our seminar Mountains Revisited is launching next week!

During spring / early summer of 2022, this blog will follow all the topics we will discuss throughout the spring semester and include voices of both the author of this blog as well as the collaborating students.

From the very beginning we will venture off the beaten academic path, exploring more adventurous theories as well as practices concerned with the mountains and an interdisciplinary research in general.

What exactly are our aims?

Our central task is concerned with our experiential / affective anchoring of the concept of the mountains and its confrontation with established academic theories of space and various takes on geography.

We will question some of the fundamental principles of an interdisciplinary research methodology and offer an experimental alternatives that highlight the imporantce of personal experience, working in and with the actual space and performance.

Where are we planning to start?

We will explore both our shared and individual mountain narratives and compare them to theories offered by various schools of theoreticians, asking, where exactly and if possibly are the intersections of experience, affect and theory. Furthemore, we will discuss, in which ways, the theory of affect, non-representational theory, and art can enter, and transform an established discourse on the mountains.

You can expect our first findings and affective notes in the upcoming weeks!