Uploaded: December 2019, Issue 36
 

Eleni Butulussi

Professor of Applied Linguistics, School of German Language and Literature, Faculty of Philosophy, A.U.Th., butulusi@del.auth.gr

Abstract

The video entitled “The metaphor that connects: Contemporary Art in a linguistics lesson at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.)” shows bits from a linguistics lesson. What we see is a teaching/learning process on the notion of metaphor that unwinds through the description of a contemporary work of art. The "Laboratory of Dilemmas" by G. Drivas was originally presented as a video installation project in Venice Biennale (2017). It deals with the anguish and confusion of people in the face of distressful dilemmas such as the ones suddenly emerging in a laboratory of scientific research and Aeschylus’ tragedy “Iketides” (Suppliant Women), alluding to the contemporary migrantand refugee issue. The project presents the dilemma: the rescue of the "foreign/unfamiliar," or the preservation of the safety and certainty of the "native/familiar"?