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forscht und lehrt derzeit am Institut für Künste und
Medien der Universität Potsdam. Sie war von 2016 bis August 2022
Juniorprofessorin für Medientheorie am cx centrum für interdisziplinäre
studien an der Akademie für Bildende Künste München. Sie
studierte Visual Arts am Bennington College, Vermont (USA), und
Kultur und Medienwissenschaft an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Neben ihren wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen produzierte sie auch
Film- und Foto-Arbeiten (Film Sunny Land, Berlinale Forum 2010). Aus
dieser Zeit stammt die Publikation Sun Tropes. Sun City and (Post-)
Apartheid Culture in South Africa (August Verlag 2009). Seit 2004 ist
sie Teil der kollektiven Publikationsplattform b_books in Berlin. Ihre
Dissertation Affective Images of Post-Apartheid. Documentary Perspectives
on Migration, Xenophobia and Gender in South African Film
and Photography (2015) wurde von der DFG gefördert und für den
Humboldt-Preis nominiert. Von 2014 bis 2016 war Kesting wissenschaftliche
Mitarbeiterin im Exzellenzcluster Bild|Wissen|Gestaltung
und arbeitete zur »Visualisierung des Grenzraums Europa«. Von 2015
bis 2018 war sie Post-Doc an der Universität für angewandte Kunst,
Wien, im FWF-Projekt »A Matter of Historicity. Material Practices in
Audiovisual Art«. Sie schreibt u.a. für Texte zur Kunst, Social Dynamics
und fkw Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur.
Gerade in den westlichen Gesellschaften lässt sich derzeit ein erneutes und sehr lebendiges Interesse an magischen Praktiken und okkultem Wissen beobachten. Das Magische und Okkulte scheint sich derzeit nicht nur zu einem gesamtgesellschaftlichen Populärphänomen zu entwickeln, sondern wird auch im akademisch-wissenschaftlichen Bereich intensiv diskutiert. Das Buch »Reale Magie« untersucht die gegenwärtige Realität des Magischen und die Wiederentdeckung von Magie und Okkultismus in den Künsten, den Wissenschaften und der Alltagskultur. Es fragt nach den aktuellen westlichen Residuen und Praxisformen von Magie, nach möglichen Potentialen magischen Denkens in einer weitgehend von ökonomisierter Zweckrationalität bestimmten Welt, aber auch nach den Kehrseiten des Okkulten.
Mit Beiträgen von: Carl Abrahamsson, Melanie Bonajo, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Mariechen Danz, Demdike Stare (Miles Whittaker und Sean Chanty), Karianne Fogelberg, Susan Greenwood, Christoph Keller, Marietta Kesting, Verena Kuni, Annika Lundgren, Kadri Mälk, Jussi Parikka, Marco Pasi, Kerstin Stakemeier, Michael Taussig, Jeremy Wade, Susanne Witzgall.