Panel discussion
Zebra #1: Forever Young!?
Key data
- Time of day7:00 until 8:30 PM
- Target groupsAdults, Teenagers
- RegistrationNo registration necessary
Description
At the half-way point of the anniversary weekend, a cheerful and profound intermediate status update on getting-older-but-not-yet-old, with Nan Mellinger hosting media scientist Annekathrin Kohout, literary scholar and fashion expert Barbara Vinken, and filmmaker and author Jovana Reisinger.
The sociological categories of childhood, youth, and adulthood would appear to be obsolete. Now, youth may continue forever, and in an age of constant repositioning and destabilization, it no longer ends as it used to, with the transition to adulthood, a lifelong career, starting one’s own family, etc. Rather, youth expands endlessly. The excessive emphasis on youth is connected to the paradigm of naturalness, the preference for the “naturally beautiful” as opposed to the “artificially beautiful.” In social media, an opposite trend can be diagnosed: selfies with distorted faces, masks, and contouring are phenomena that indicate that the artificial is no longer scorned, but instead appreciated. In the digital public space, it serves as a necessary tool for preserving some remnant of privacy and identity.
How do film, literature, and fashion reflect the ageless aesthetic of digital culture? How does the shift of body images and identities articulate itself in the analog space?
With sprezzatura, the first ZEBRA moves between critical analysis, artistic manifestation, and girlsplaining to questions of gender and taste. Musical empowerment is provided by the anniversary mix “Forever Young” by Public Possession. Foyer.
The sociological categories of childhood, youth, and adulthood would appear to be obsolete. Now, youth may continue forever, and in an age of constant repositioning and destabilization, it no longer ends as it used to, with the transition to adulthood, a lifelong career, starting one’s own family, etc. Rather, youth expands endlessly. The excessive emphasis on youth is connected to the paradigm of naturalness, the preference for the “naturally beautiful” as opposed to the “artificially beautiful.” In social media, an opposite trend can be diagnosed: selfies with distorted faces, masks, and contouring are phenomena that indicate that the artificial is no longer scorned, but instead appreciated. In the digital public space, it serves as a necessary tool for preserving some remnant of privacy and identity.
How do film, literature, and fashion reflect the ageless aesthetic of digital culture? How does the shift of body images and identities articulate itself in the analog space?
With sprezzatura, the first ZEBRA moves between critical analysis, artistic manifestation, and girlsplaining to questions of gender and taste. Musical empowerment is provided by the anniversary mix “Forever Young” by Public Possession. Foyer.
