Bildhauerei und RaumstrategienIna 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]