International Symposium What is Critique? Touching on the legacy of the Enlightenment, which always needs to be updated and critically analyzed, this question will be discussed in relation to its central role for civil society. A critical attitude towards all assertions and realities can put us in a position to reflect on such positions, instead of simply believing them to be true. At the same time we have to acknowledge that a critical attitude includes affirmative traits, and thus implies and presupposes affirmations that limit its critical reach. Divided into three parts, this series of events began with Jean-Luc Nancy’s Unser Zeitalter ist nicht mehr das eigentliche Zeitalter der Kritik (Our age is no longer the actual age of critique), a keynote lecture delivered at the HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin on January 28, 2016. The series continued with two symposia under the title Was ist Kritik? / What is Critique? The first symposium was held on February 6–7, 2016 at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, the second on April 1–2, 2016 at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). The Zurich Symposium focused on artistic practices. Three artists working in different social, institutional, and media fields presented their current work. In conversation with selected respondents it explored the possibilities of critical practice, the forms of locating one’s art, and the relation of critique and affirmation.weiterlesen