Judith Siegmund

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Judith Siegmund (born July 17, 1965 ) is a German philosopher and artist ; Since 2018 she has been professor for contemporary aesthetics at the State University for Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart .

Life

Siegmund grew up mainly in Rostock. From 1985 to 1991 she studied painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden . The diploma was followed by postgraduate studies in art at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1991 to 1993 . From 1995 to 2001 Siegmund completed a master’s degree in philosophy, first at the Free University of Berlin , then at the University of Potsdam . In 2007 she received her doctorate in philosophy at the University of Potsdam with the dissertation Die Evidenz der Kunst . She was a scholarship holder of the Heinrich Böll Foundation . From 2011 to 2018 she was Junior Professor for Theory of Design / Aesthetic Theory with a partial denomination for gender theory at the Berlin University of the Arts . In 2015/2016 she represented a professorship for the history of philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. Since March 2018 she has been professor for contemporary aesthetics at the State University for Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart.

Research priorities

Siegmund's current research interests include aesthetic theory, art theory , art philosophy and art sociology , in particular production aesthetics and the theory of action; also cultural sociology , epistemology and phenomenology .
In the dissertation Die Evidenz der Kunst , an art theory is developed that sees the work of art as a medium of communication that stands in the mode of a “double alterity” between producer and recipient.

Artistic work

Since the early 1990s, Siegmund has been making public appearances, particularly in the field of participatory conceptual art, with video works, multimedia installations and documentary books. A characteristic of her way of working (for example in the multi-part series “Social Noise”) is the attempt to capture the everyday discourses of different participants, which are shaped by private experiences, through participatory processes such as interviews and questionnaires and to reflect them back into the public space - aesthetically transformed, but unfiltered in terms of content. In addition to the video, a typical form of presentation is therefore the font installation. Characteristic topics are everyday racism, living conditions in inner-European border regions, work, poverty and consumption, historical memory, but also prostitution. Insofar as these issues have a political dimension, the focus is not on scandalization or victimization, but on giving everyday social experience a voice and restoring its potential for irritation.

Fonts (selection)

  • The evidence of art. Artistic action as aesthetic communication. Bielefeld 2007.
  • A question of appropriateness. Aesthetics as a philosophy of art. In: Sabine Sander, Melanie Sachs (ed.): The permanence of the aesthetic. Wiesbaden 2009, pp. 41–54.
  • Is There a Quintessential Meaning for the Concept of Creativity? In: Trópos. Journal of Hermeneutics and Philosophical Criticism, No. 2/2011: Re-thinking Creativity: Between Art and Philosophy. ed. by Alessandro Bertinetto, Alberto Martinengo, pp. 11–28.
  • What is the other of the precarious? Reflections on precarious work today. In: Journal for Gender Research and Visual Culture, Issue 53 / June 2012, pp. 52–62.
  • Ed. With Daniel Feige: Art and Action. Aesthetic and action theory perspectives. Bielefeld 2015.
  • L'art pour l'art and freedom from purpose. On the relationship between sociological and philosophical concepts of autonomy. In: Uta Karstein, Nina Tessa Zahner (eds.): Autonomy of Art? On the topicality of a social model. Wiesbaden 2016, pp. 87-104.
  • Empathy and embodiment in the material. Thoughts on documentary film work. In: Malte Hagener, Íngrid Vendrell Ferran (eds.): Empathy in film. Perspectives in Aesthetic Theory, Phenomenology and Analytical Philosophy. Bielefeld 2017, pp. 213–235.
  • (Ed.) How does art change if it is understood as research? Bielefeld 2016.
  • Purpose and freedom from purpose. On the functional change in the arts in the 21st century . Stuttgart 2019.

Videos, projects and exhibitions (selection)

  • 1995: Conversations in the Stahlhaus, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
  • 2000: Social Noise III, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt (Oder) / Słubice
  • 2001: Social Noise Graz, Forum Stadtpark Graz
  • 2004: Stranger Suitors [Video]
  • 2006: "My best wishes for the fallen angel" [Video]
  • 2006: Appointment - Job - Maloche ( Hannah Arendt Reading Courses)
  • 2006: Hannah-Arendt-Denkraum, former Jewish girls' school Berlin-Mitte, Academy of the Arts Berlin (group exhibition)
  • 2010: too little too much? [Video]
  • 2012: Art-in-building work (font installation) in the Diagnostic-Internal-Neurological Center of the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital in Dresden
  • 2016: As Rights Go By. Loss of rights and lack of rights, freiraum Q21 INTERNATIONAL / MuseumsQuartier Wien (group exhibition)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Judith Siegmund: Die Evidenz der Kunst. Artistic action as aesthetic communication . Bielefeld 2007, cover text and p. 184.
  2. ↑ On the position of Siegmund's work within participatory conceptual art, see the depiction of Rosa von der Schulenburg in: History of Fine Arts in Germany, Vol. 8: From Expressionism to Today. Edited by Barbara Lange. Munich [u. a.] 2006, p. 475.
  3. ↑ See Judith Siegmund: Calling - Job - Maloche. Art with Arendt at the end of the work. In: polar. Journal for Politics, Theory, Everyday Life, No. 4 (2008), pp. 168–174.
  4. ↑ Christian Grüny: Judith Siegmund: Die Evidenz der Kunst. Artistic action as aesthetic communication. [Review], In: Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, Issue 54/1, 2009.
  5. ↑ Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (ed.), Conversations in the Stahlhaus, Dessau 1996.
  6. ↑ Armin Hauer: Social Noise III, Mixed Media. Acquired in 2000, in: Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt (Oder) (catalog of the collection), Frankfurt (Oder) 2001.
  7. ↑ SOCIAL NOISE - SZUMY SPOŁECZNOŚCI - SOCIALNA ŠUMENJA, Forum Stadtpark Graz (ed.) In cooperation with the cooperation partners: Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt (Oder), Kulturhaus SMOK Słubice (Słubicki Miejski Ośrodek Kultury), Graz 2003.
  8. ^ Walter Seidl: Leaving State and Law , in: artmagazin, May 18, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Siegmund, Judith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1965