Bildhauerei und RaumstrategienNatascha 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann 18 May 2022 The Potosí Principle and its Archive In 2010, the exhibition “The Potosí Principle” (curated by Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann and Max Jorge Hinderer) was shown at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. In 2011 it went to the National Museum […]
Federico Campagna 5 May 2022 Connections between architecture, game design and the metaphysical process of world-building Philosopher Federico Campagna will examine the connections between architecture, game design and the metaphysical process of world-building. He will discuss the fragility and malleability of worlds, and the challenge of setting the foundations for new world-forms. Required Reading: Paul […]
Felix Stalder 9 March 2022 Commoning The commons has emerged as a broad horizon to envision and create a real that is quite different from the currently dominating forms of hyper-marketization. Digital commons play an important role as field of activity, but also as a source of inspiration for other fields.We will first look at […]
Nataša Ilić 18 January 2022 On Work And Its Absence The seminar On work and its absence focuses on the notion of work and its centrality both for left emancipatory project and for capitalist reproduction and ideology. The seminar develops around the first conceptual outline of the international exhibition devoted to the issues of work […]