Questionable Beauty

"Translating Acts" will be accompanied by the philosophers Rudolf zur Lippe and Rolf Elberfeld, who are going to start a dialogue with artists and the audience in Berlin.

Rudolf zur Lippe is Prof. Emeritus of social philosophy and aesthetics. He has continued his early theatre work in performative forms of theory. His Sinnenbewusstsein, (2nd ed. 2001, published by Schneider Verlag) translates insights from natural science into an understanding of human corporeality and the history of our senses, and follows the traces of their transcendental meaning. In many of his texts and workshops Rudolf zur Lippe combines his ambition to "lay the foundations of an anthropological aesthetics" with questions related to dance and architecture, eroticism and economics, philosophical thought and artistic practice.

Rolf Elberfeld, was born in 1964. He studied philosophy, Japanology, Sinology and religious studies in Würzburg, Bonn and Kyoto, Japan (where he studied philosophy for two years). He worked as an academic assistant at the University of Wuppertal until 2003. He currently teaches philosophy as a private lecturer at various universities. He is doing research into the "sense of movement" and its significance within the framework of various sciences as part of a project on the "phenomenology of sensuous experience". Among other things he has edited (with Günter Wohlfart) the volume Komparative Ästhetik. Künste und ästhetische Erfahrungen in Asien und Europa, Cologne, 2000. His latest book is Phänomenologie der Zeit im Buddhismus. Methoden inter-kulturellen Philosophierens, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 2004.