Artistic Research Case II: How Roland Barthes would teach a course

READING

DAY 8

Artistic Research Case II: How Roland Barthes would teach a course

For this eight and last session, we explore the nuances of the neutral, a concept studied in a lecture by Roland Barthes in his later years. Drawing from an astonishment and respect for the complexity of language, we explore the sense of the neu-ter, the neither/nor, and propose seeing apparent opposite things as equivalents, pushing the boundaries to see what holds.

Based on:

Roland Barthes, “The Neutral”

Film screening: series of short selfportraits by Maria Lassnig, Michelangelo Antonioni, Hito Steyerl