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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 […]

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De-stressing by distressing with Meltem Calisir

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 […]

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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 […]

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Sound, space and sculpture with Karl Salzmann

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 […]

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Light & Space & Perception with Martina Tritthart

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 […]

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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 […]

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Jalal Toufic 11 October 2022 What Was I Thinking?, pp. 72–82 The seminar will encompass a close reading and discussion of pages 72-82 (under the heading Destiny’s multiple Bodies) from his book What Was I Thinking? Jalal Toufic is a thinker and a mortal to death. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before […]

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Cosmin Costinas 7 October 2022 Exhibition-making and the multiplicity of artistic languages This seminar is built around the premise that exhibition-making is a distinct method of generating meaning. Departing from a few case studies of working primarily within the Asia-Pacific context, we will visit together conversations taking place in these localities that provide perspectives on […]

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Boris Buden 1 June 2022 Translation: Using the concept in society, culture, knowledge and art production? There is no doubt about what has brought the concept of translation into the focus of social researchers, cultural theorists, scientists and, not least, artists – the globalization and the rising complexity of the world in which we live […]

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Marina Vishmidt 23 May 2022 Solidarity and Dispersion: Measure of an Abstract Subject This seminar will focus on thinking that has been slowly generating for and around me on the possibility of autonomy in the case of a dispersive or diffuse subject, that is, whether you can have autonomy without property, or at least, not […]