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Art historian Dr. Jordan Troeller of the FU Berlin has been awarded a 1.1 million euro Freigeist Fellowship by the Volkswagen Foundation for her research on creativity in contemporary art. She will pursue her project "M/Other: Creativity between Artistic Creation and Biological Reproduction in Contemporary Art" over the next six years with her own research group at the Institute for Philosophy and Art Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg.
Troeller's starting point for her project is that although motherhood is one of the most common themes in the history of Western art, it often presents a one-dimensional and distorted image of the experience. "Contemporary women artists, some of whom are mothers themselves, are using their work today to question how we define the boundary between art and non-art, between artificiality and nature, between the production of lifelike images and the production of living bodies", Troeller says.
In her project, she and her research group will use analyses of artworks, interviews with artists and writers, newly discovered archives, and findings from related disciplines to locate the origins of the maternal paradigm and analyze how it has changed over time. She suspects that in transition from a paradigm of 'creation versus procreation' to 'creation as procreation', the moments of life support may also be our most creative.
Jordan Troeller chose Leuphana as the site for her project because it stands for "innovative and risky research initiatives"-"a quality not often found in the German academic landscape," says the U.S.-born art historian. "My project critically engages with mythologies of motherhood in Western culture and considers how the category of the mother in art has changed dramatically in recent decades due to changing notions of gender and sexuality. The Institute of Philosophy and Sciences of Art, and in particular its DFG Research Training Group 'Cultures of Critique', is an ideal context for rethinking such basic cultural concepts."
Background:
With its Freigeist Fellowships, the Volkswagen Foundation addresses excellent and exceptional research personalities who wish to move between established fields of research and pursue risk-taking scholarship. With the funding offer, young researchers are given the opportunity to shape their scientific activities optimally with maximum freedom and a clear time perspective.
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