Bildhauerei und Raumstrategien12 March 2026 This workshop explores the voice as a physical, relational and social phenomenon, as well as an artistic medium. We will trace how sound emerges from the body and moves into space, interacting with bodies within it. We will reflect on how voices are perceived, described and categorised — and how such processes […]
6 November 2025 This workshop is an invitation to read through the materiality and gestures involved in the act of shoe polishing. At the surface of the shoe, the brushstrokes of the polisher become invisible. Shining registers a history of labor that stretches from public and domestic spaces, to the structure of the military. The […]
Alberto Toscano Tracking the Boomerang: Once More on the Relation between Fascism and Colonialism 15 December 2025 The idea of a colonial or imperial boomerang, returning imperialist violence from the colonies to the imperial heartlands, at its most extreme in the guise of fascism, has served as an important critical optic through which to approach […]
Samia Henni Colonial Toxicity 16 October 2025 Lecture at annual sculpture symposium: Red threads, loose ends, another sculpture IS possible Samia Henni is a historian and an exhibition maker of the built, destroyed and imagined environments and their relationship with the practices of colonization, war, and environmental contamination. Her most recent research has culminated in the […]
Ana Teixeira Pinto Oh Man! Aggrieved Masculinity, Silicon Valley and the new Far-Right 10 June 2025 After the instant success of The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler wrote a short book that ends with his famous eulogy to a calcified roman soldier whose body was frozen in the line of duty. The text does not conjure triumph […]
Adelita Husni-Bey Porto Marghera 5 June 2025 (Lectures 4 Future) In this lecture, Adelita Husni-Bey will explore Porto Marghera, the former industrial port near Venice, as a powerful case study of intersecting crises—ecological collapse, extractive capitalism, and labor struggle. Once emblematic of Italy’s postwar industrial boom, Porto Marghera is now a deeply contested site, reflecting […]
Eric Michaud Propaganda, Art & Advertising : How to Produce the Future 9 May 2025 The role played by images in propaganda is generally considered to be a deliberate lie involving the falsification of a supposedly “objective” reality. I believe instead that one should consider propaganda as an instrument for the construction of reality. Just like art […]
Eran Schaerf Back to the Following. Beginings of the Levantine Revolution 8 May 2025 (IBK lecture series/Ringvorlesung) “They were Levantine enough to know that a person, however worthless, counts more than principles, however sacred.” Who are they? What does it mean to be Levantine enough? How can Levantine knowledge be acquired? Who presumes to consider […]
Rasha Salti On Seeing and Archives: Thinking Historically and Critically 14 April 2025 Past Disquiet looks at a chapter in our modern history where militants could not imagine conducting their struggle without artists and artists were fully engaged in political struggles. Historisizing images and documents implies exploring their production as well as their dissemination, and this is […]
Stephanie Weber On exhibition in Lenbachhaus, Munich (But Live Here? No Thanks: Surrealism and Anti-fascism) 17 March 2025 “If someone tells us that our era has other worries on its mind than to write poems, we respond “So do we!” This typically ambiguous statement by the surrealist poetry and Trotskyist resistance group La Main à plume, […]