GRK 1369:  Interart Studies

• Subject Area: Literary Studies ; Art History, Music, Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: from 2006 to 2015
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 19944239

The International Research Training Group aims to develop a newly emerging field of research - Interart studies. During the last decades, in the art scene, two tendencies are to be observed: on the one hand, a still growing tendency towards an annulment, a dissolution of the boundaries between different art forms, as brought about by performativity, hybridisation, multimedia; on the other hand, we have observed an aesthetisation and theatricalisation of other cultural fields, including politics, economy, the media, sports, everyday life, which tends to abolish the boundaries between art and non-art. Both tendencies present a challenge to the arts disciplines. The new situation that has emerged over approximately the last fifty years, radically questions this self-understanding. It disorientates the arts disciplines in terms of their special objects, i.e. in terms of just that momentum that seemed to guarantee the self-definition and delineation of the other arts disciplines in each case and, as a result, in terms of their methodologies and theoretical approaches.
This situation provides the point of departure for the International Research Training Group. It aims at restructuring the arts disciplines in such a way that they will be able to do justice to what is going on in the different arts disciplines as well as to the aesthetisation of culture in general. We argue that it makes more sense to proceed from the idea of a dynamic field of art - quite naturally embedded in and entangled with other dynamic cultural fields -, where various processes of differentiation exist. The aim of the International Research Training Group is to engage with art works and art events from a wide range of epochs in order to devise new methodical approaches to these varying Interart phenomena. At the same time, it serves the creation of new aesthetic categories, which might adequately describe the tendency towards multi-medialisation, hybridity, performativisation. The long-term goal is the development of a new theory, which refers to different types of Interart phenomena.

• DFG Programme: International Research Training Groups
• International Connection: Denmark, USA
• Applicant Institution: Freie Universität Berlin
• IRTG-Partner Institution: Københavns Universitet
• Spokesperson: Professorin Dr. Erika Fischer-Lichte
• IRTG-Partner: Spokespersons: Professor Dr. Frederik Tygstrup; Professor Dr. William B. Worthen
• Cooperation Partners: Professor Dr. Stefan Andriopoulos; Professor Dr. Arnold Aronson; Professorin Lydia Goehr, Ph.D.; Professorin Dr. Cordula Grewe; Professor Dr. Isak Winkel Holm; Professor Dr. Andreas Huyssen; Professorin Dr. Anne Jerslev; Professorin Dr. Rosalind C. Morris; Professor Dr. Henrik Oxvig; Professorin Dr. Lilian Munk Rösing; Professorin Dr. Alisa Solomon; Professor Dr. Søren Møller Sørensen; Professor Dr. Jens Toft
• Participating Researchers: Professorin Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter; Professorin Dr. Gertrud Koch; Professorin Dr. Doris Kolesch; Professor Dr. Klaus Krüger; Professor Dr. Joachim Küpper; Professor Dr. Albrecht Riethmüller; Professor Dr. Clemens Risi; Professorin Dr. Renate Schlesier; Professor Dr. Christoph Wulf