Bildhauerei und RaumstrategienDavid Lloyd The Racal Regime: the Genesis of a Critique of the So-Called Liberal University 15 June 2026 In this talk, I will explore the shifting circumstances out of which the argument of Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics emerged. What were the conflicts and social movements, in the university and in society at large, […]
11 June 2026 A voice, a breath, a short look, an electrical hum, fabric against skin – traces of something already disappearing. This workshop approaches sound as archive: as a way of holding memory, grief, intimacy and absence. Together we will listen closely to the unnoticed, work with field recordings, voice, repetition and texture to […]
Anna Kornbluh Good Enough Art: Some Notes on Missing Middle Mediations 18 May 2026 The recent surge of “mid” as an aesthetic judgment paradoxically discloses the missing middle in contemporary cultural arts: a decline of midbudget cinema, midlist fiction, and other just fine commodity aesthetic forms. Amid a historic eviction of the middle class, cultural […]
Lina Attalah Deep listening – speaking nearby 17 April 2026 In 2013, a group of jobless journalists in Cairo found themselves on the skirmish line between two forces; the military and the islamists. Intent on not taking sides, they entertained the rising discourse of third wayism, but abandoned it soon, at the first moment of danger. In this […]
12 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 […]