Bildhauerei und RaumstrategienJill 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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rijin Sahakian You Don’t Make it Public: On Selection and Severance 10 May 2023 Discussion around exhibitions and artist-led boycotts in recent years has focused on the plausible deniability of curators, debates over degrees of political culpability, and/or the limits of representation. These questions often obfuscate and by-pass the mechanisms by which cultural productions are […]
29 November 2022 In my workshop de-stressing by distressing I want to introduce the class to simple fabric manipulation techniques that do not require sewing or pattern-making skills, I named the workshop de-stressing by distressing because similar to knitting, sewing or crocheting the destruction and reconstruction of clothing items can be therapeutical. Up-cycling has become […]
Natascha Sadr Haghighian tunes of summoning 25 January 2023 I’ve been listening to music a lot these days. Tunes that keep me company in dark times, that summon what is lost and to be found, bereavement and courage. The tunes in my head are really leakages. They ooze, they trickle, they call in, permeated with […]
5 October 2022 In the workshop “Sound, space and sculpture” we will explore – in an experimental environment – basic tools (like speakers, mixing consoles, transducers, soldering irons,..) that make it possible to use sound as a sculptural element. We will explore, besides practical and technical applications, aspects of the perception of sound in space […]
21 March 2023 Light, space and perception are mutually connected, together they create atmospheres and the unique character of a place. Martina Tritthart will introduce the basics of physics (What is light? Direct and indirect lighting, shadows, reflection, etc.) and lighting design (three-point lighting, light directions in space, flooding, wall washing, accent lighting, projection). In […]
Pilvi Takala 1 December 2022 Close watch on power and social control Artist Pilvi Takala will present her project Close Watch, which takes a critical look at how power is wielded in public spaces through the private security industry. The video installation is based on Takala’s experiences during her six-month employment while working covertly for […]