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From Resonance to Silence with Karl Salzmann

17 April 2024 From Resonance to SilenceIn the workshop we will explore, listen and experience the different sonic structures connected to space (closed & public). After a practical exploration of site-specific sound reflections and the resonant frequencies of the lecture room, we will – after an ear cleaning session – focus on listening in public […]

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Collapsing or the aesthetics of weak materials with Juliana Lindenhofer

10 June 2024 A richly nuanced intermediate realm of weakness, a liminal space of neutralized extremes, extends between power and powerlessness.”… “The elimination of the powerful binary attributions unlocks an entire spectrum of gradations and intermediate forms. Nuances come into view instead of the usual polarities; attention turns to subtleties rather than extremes” writes Kathrin […]

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Temporal Worlding with Steph Holl-Trieu

14 March 2024 This workshop is an invitation to analyse, reflect on and conspire with and against modes of temporal worlding. Temporal worlding can be understood as the making and unmaking of worlds through infrastructures of time and temporal practices. Both of these vectors are often taken for granted with time referred to as something […]

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Ina Blom Straight-line sensibilities and the question of following. 22 January 2024 The proliferation of straight lines in 20th Century art andarchitecture is typically associated with rational and universalist procedures and perspectives, and with the rise of industrial culture. In this lecture, which is based on my current book project, I will look at straight lines […]

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Éric Baudelaire Éric Baudelaire: make, do, with 5 December 2023 Éric Baudelaire’s works are often made in collaboration with the people whose experiences they explore — avant-garde artists, teenagers, secessionists and terrorists, all of whom have defied the institutions that assert the right to define the realities they live in. Their stories of resistance and entangled […]

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Judy Radul Framing With Waves 11 December 2023 At the same time as AI is bringing “intelligence” into question, it seems that across a wide range of knowledges and ways of knowing (epistemologies)we are trying to shift some of our long held and culturally determined beliefs and values about what exists, what is important, what […]

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Jill Magid Technology of Enchantment 8 November 2023 The content of the discussion is to unpack a conceit Cuahtemoc Medina has posited about Magid’s work. He wrote, “In fact, unlike most forms of artistic production, to a great extent the content of the work consists less of images, objects or artifacts, than of the exchanges […]

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Emily Wardill  The Imagined Image 6 October 2023 For this seminar, Wardill will be focussing on her three most recent works: Identical – exhibited at KW, Berlin this year. Sleep Patterns and Musical Chairs – currently on show at Casa Sao Roque in Porto. Night for Day – shown at Secession, Vienna in 2020.  Required Reading and Viewing: […]

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Fahim Amir At the Gates of Utopia: Nature, Art, Solidarity 7 June 2023 In this talk I want to share some thoughts about problems, practices and questions that I’ve been involved in over the past few years. These include making sense of the dystopian qualities of inhabiting paracolonial life worlds, and of their legacies and […]

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Sounding Spaces with Karl Salzmann

20 April 2023 Sounding Spaces In our last meeting we had an introduction to different ways of bringing sound into space. In this second workshop we want to find out how to listen to (sounding) spaces and places. After a short introduction to the many ways in which sound has been used in art throughout […]