Philosophy with Video Art | Video Screening + Discussion + E.Publication Presentation

Conversation with video screening and presentation of the e-publication Menschsein spielen (2021), (engl.: Playing Humanity) with the artists Sylvie Boisseau & Frank Westermeyer/Berlin + Geneva and the philosopher Dr. Thomas Ebke/Berlin + Bochum.

Sylvie Boisseau & Frank Westermeyer are also part of the current exhibition Nach der Zukunft / Post Future.

7 pm:Videoscreening Sylvie Boisseau & Frank Westermeyer
We show the following two video works:
> Menschsein Spielen – Zwischen KI, einem Leben als Tier und als Pflanze (7:43 Min.), (engl.: Playing Humanity – Between AI, a life as an animal and as a plant)
> Ƒ zwischen den Stufen des Organischen (20:40 Min.), (engl.: Ƒ Between the levels of the organic)

(Videos in English with German subtitles)

In their current work, the artist duo Boisseau & Westermeyer experimentally engages with the philosophical anthropology of Helmut Plessner. – Plessner, philosopher and sociologist, student of Max Weber and Edmund Husserl, is one of the main representatives of the Philosophical Anthropology, who has opened up new and clever spaces for thinking to overcome our anthropocentric approach to the world.

7:30 pm: Conversation between Sylvie Boisseau & Frank Westermeyer and the philosopher Dr. Thomas Ebke
Following the videos shown, we invite you to participate in a further dialogue, which revolves around the challenge of redefining our relationship to non-human beings.

(The conversation will be in German)