Bildhauerei und RaumstrategienLars Bang Larsen 8 December 2021 Documenta- Politics and Art. About the exhibition in Museum of German History in Berlin In this workshop Lars Bang Larsen will discuss the exhibition documenta. Politics and Art (2021-2022) that he co-curated with Julia Voss, Alexia Pooth, Dorothee Wierling and Dorlis Blume at the Museum of German History in Berlin. The exhibition addressed the political […]
Ruth Erickson 10 November 2021 Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-57. A Curatorial Case Study. This seminar tells the story of making the acclaimed exhibition Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-57, and how the curators (Ruth Erickson and Helen Molesworth) attempted to translate the college’s radical experimentation into an exhibition more than 50 […]
Banu Cennetoğlu 8 June 2021 a mirror nor a hammer (part II): thoughts and knots on the question of “art-ist-ic agency” Banu Cennetoğlu is an Istanbul-based artist engaged in a wide range of cross-disciplinary practices. Her practice incorporates methods of mapping, collecting and archiving in order to question and challenge the politics of memory, as […]
Julia Bryan-Wilson 21 May 2021 Doing Queer Feminist History The seminar will revolve around how personally engaged, bodily methods of research might open up new theories about relationally. Required Reading: Julia Bryan-Wilson, Big Miss MoviolaVideobrasil Julia Bryan-Wilson, Practicing Trio A, October Julia Bryan-Wilson is a widely published art historian, critic, and award-winning author whose research spans handicraft, […]
Darby English 5 May 2021 Narrativity and Silence The Seminar will be an opportunity to think and talk together about the present compulsion to narrate (in and around art), the emphasis on story and storytelling (again, in and around art), and the dimensions of art that narrativity fails to capture. Required Reading: 1994 essay by Louise […]
Anton Vidokle 16 March 2021 Anton Vidokle: Cosmist Aesthetics Beginning in 2013, Anton Vidokle has been working on a series of films on and about the philosophy of Russian Cosmism. To date, this series includes the film trilogy Immortality for All, as well as Citizens of the Cosmos and Autotrofia, with several more yet to be made. Part historical research and […]
Sina Najafi 14th January 2021 Between the Hedgehog and the Fox In his 1953 essay “The Hedgehog and the Fox,” Isaiah Berlin invokes a fragment from the pre-Socratic poet Archilochus: “A fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one large thing.” What does it mean to know many small things, or, indeed, one large […]
Agnieszka Kurant 27 December 2020 The Phenomenon of Collective Intelligence in Nature and Culture Conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant will give a presentation focused on her practice in relation to the phenomena of collective intelligence in nature and culture. Required Reading: https://www.frieze.com/article/agnieszka-kurant-collective-intelligence-0 http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/61/kurant.php https://time.com/5792613/ai-art/ Noema Presents Agnieska kurant https://www.sculpture-center.org/files/SculptureCenter_AgnieszkaKurant.pdf https://www.e-flux.com/podcasts/e599d2ca4a034e46bf143ea3f5b812bf/extern An interview with Agnieszka Kuranthttp://evenmagazine.com/agnieszka-kurant/ http://evenmagazine.com/agnieszka-kurant/embed/#?secret=EhaX3DnZF2 https://bombmagazine.org/articles/agnieszka-kurant/ Agnieska Kurant investigates […]
Anselm Franke 17 November 2020 (Situatedness of art in modern-colonial structures) In the current moment we are experiencing the rapid downfall of the liberal postwar order, and in the the cracks thus opening up, we gaze into the abyss of 500 years of colonial-modern history. For the sake of orientation on common grounds and as […]
Elie Ayache 22 June 2020 The Financial Market and the Criticism of Automation 1. Overview: Marxist criticism considers the financial market as the utmost achievement of abstraction. It is the jewel of capitalism, which is in turn the accomplishment of metaphysics and of the Greek logos. We argue, against that Marxist view, that the financial market […]