Foto: Lisa Glauer

Graduate School Newsletter #1 2017

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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, dear friends,

with 2017 the series of events Salon für Ästhetische Experimente is returning to Haus der Kulturen der Welt. With this newsletter we warmly invite you to the two upcoming editions. During the first session taking place on Monday next week, fellow Lisa Glauer will present “Striplandings” and will discuss the topics of her project with her guests. Her project deals with the biopolitical dimension of the border between San Diego and Tijuana. On 24. April Marco Donnarumma will host the next Salon with “Configuring Corporeality”. The event will feature the exhibition of a prototype for his forthcoming new artwork, and the screening of a film documenting the creative process of the artist and his collaborators. Three speakers will engage in a series of lectures and an ensuing collective conversation so as to offer a transdisciplinary insight into how today's forms of computation can affect - and be affected by - bodies, machines and the arts.

On the upcoming Saturday a conversation between Alumna Judith Raum and Susanne Weiß will take place within the context of the event “food for thought” at sign,CIAT in Berlin. Furthermore Galerie am Körnerpark is showing the exhibition “Lustwandeln” by Alumna Juliane Laitzsch and Angelika Frommherz. From 31. April Alumna Alex Martinis Roe will show a part of her project “Two Become To” at “The National: New Australian Art 2017” and will simultaneously present a series of workshops and events which revisit the history of feminist theory in Sydney. In Copenhagen Alumna Valentina Karga will take part of the exhibition “Exchanging Money for Working Space or Money Equals Working Space” with her project “Market for Immaterial Value”. Based on an art work by Stig Brøgger, the exhibition aims to question value-creation both within art and the broader contexts given in contemporary financialization.

Last but not least, we would like to take the opportunity to inform about novelties concerning our online presence. Given that the website of the University of Arts got a major redesign in October 2015, we decided to transfer to the new site. Moreover, the Graduate School has recently begun keeping an Instagram account. Be sure to check both sites out for latest news on events and projects of our fellows!

Foto: Lisa Glauer

Salon für Ästhetische Experimente #1

During the first session in 2017 fellow of the Graduate School Lisa Glauer will present her project Striplandings which deals with the biopolitical dimension of the border between San Diego and Tijuana. She will be in conversation with her collaborator Hillary Mushkin and with Rajkamal Kahlon about the ways current shifts in the political landscape may change the manner in which this project specifically and political endeavors in art may be perceived today.

By hosting the series of events “Salon für Ästhetische Experimente”, the Graduate School is offering its international fellows, Alumni as well as all other protagonists of the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS)  a platform for creative ventures, interventions as well as speculative artistic activites. The diversely formatted evenings afford the opportunity to present, discuss and question artistic processes, new modus operandi, research questions and current projects in a public context. Within this framework, the presentation of completed works is ever subordinate to the sketching of postgradual modus operandi.

When?
Monday, 27 March 2017, 7pm

Where?
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin more information

Foto: Marco Donnarumma

Salon für Ästhetische Experimente #2

Marco Donnarumma, artist, scholar and Research Fellow at Berlin University of the Arts, hosts a one-day symposium investigating the hidden threads across posthuman affect, cognitive robotics, ritual performance and art. Three stakeholders engage in a series of lectures and an ensuing collective conversation so as to offer a transdisciplinary insight into how today's forms of (intelligent?) computation can affect - and be affected by - bodies, machines and the arts. Coupling theory with practice, the event features the exhibition of a prototype for Donnarumma's forthcoming new artwork, an autonomous prosthetic sculpture named Amygdala, as well as a screening documenting the creative process of the artist and his collaborators.

Invited speakers:

Marie-Luise Angerer
Chair for Media Theory / Media Studies, Institute of Arts and Media, Potsdam University, Berlin, and author of the forthcoming Ecology of Affect (Meson Press)

Irini Papadimitriou
Digital Programmes Manager, Victoria & Albert Museum, and Head of New Media Arts Development at Watermans, London

Manfred Hild
Professor of Digital Systems at the Beuth University of Applied Science, and Head of the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory, Berlin

When?
Monday, 24 April 2017, 7pm

Where?
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin
[event is held in English]

more information

Foto: Judith Raum

Talk "On Construction"

An evening of conversation and drinks, between Alumna Judith Raum and Susanne Weiß, will take place within the context of the event “food for thought” at CIAT in Berlin. The focus of the evening will range from the construction of fabrics as exemplification of teaching principles to the collective production at the historic Bauhaus art school.

Anni Albers, Otti Berger and Gunta Stölzl implemented the innovative ideas of the Bauhaus art school very clearly and provocatively into the textile medium. However, the textile workshop was also quite ambivalent as gender conflicts culminated there. There was apparently a disregard for weaving as an allegedly feminine discipline, yet economically the weaving workshop was the most successful of the school. What do we read into the fabrics and texts of these artists? The artists stood for principles like collective acquisition of knowledge, and discussed the possibility of experimentation and imagination in design processes, intended to be implemented in mass production. What relevance do these principles have today?

Judith Raum is currently working at Bauhaus University in Weimar. She is also involved in the travelling exhibition “The Event of a Thread”, which is curated by Susanne Weiß and will have its first opening on 1 September 2017 at Kunsthaus Dresden.

When?
Saturday, 25 March, 8 pm 

Where?
Sign, CIAT - Contemporary Institute for Art & Thought
Zossener Str. 34, HH
10961 Berlin

more information

Foto: Angelika Frommherz, Juliane Laitzsch

Exhibition "Lustwandeln"

In the mid of April "Gartensalon 3" will take place, a last event within the context of the exhibition "Lustwandeln" at Galerie am Körnerpark. Alumna Juliane Laitzsch is hosting a talk between the artists Birgit Cauer and Sabine Berr, who both practice gardening but very differently integrate These experiences into their respective artistic work.

Artistic processes are related to the development and cultivation of a garden. Similar to the acts of digging, sowing, watering, fertilizing and pruning, artistic work is developed while its idiosyncratic dynamics are closely observed. Some things unfold only in the the right environment and neighbourship. The exhibition by the artists Juliane Laitzsch and Angelika Frommherz is staged as a space which visitors can stroll through as if promenading in a park. While the Körnerpark is resting in winter and the plants seem to be hiding, inside the gallery a vivid landscape of ornamentation, resting places, visual axes and colourful objects is staged. 

When?
Wednesday, 12 April 2017, 6 pm
Gartensalon 3, "Gemeinsam Gärtnern": Talk with the artists Birgit Cauer and Sabine Berr
Host: Juliane Laitzsch

Exhibition: 28 January to 19 April 2017

Where?
Galerie im Körnerpark
Schierker Straße 8
12051 Berlin

more information

Foto: Alex Martinis Roe

The National: New Australian Art 2017

Fellow Alex Martinis Roe is showing a part of her project „To Become Two“ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.

Alex Martinis Roe’s new work draws on intensive research to build a narrative about the remarkable engagement with French feminist and post-structuralist philosophy in Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s. A multi-channel video connects the Sydney Filmmakers Co-operative, the Feminist Film Workers, the General Philosophy department at the University of Sydney, and related self-publishing groups which were active in these developments. This will be presented alongside archival material within an installation that explores the modest domestic spaces in which transformative debates and thinking often occurred locally. During the exhibition a series of workshops and events will take place in the gallery which revisit the history of feminist theory in Sydney, offering fresh perspectives on its origins and legacies.

When?
31 March to 16 July

 
Where?
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery Road, The Domain
Sydney
Australia

more information

Foto: Mandrak [Waldemar Junqueira Rodrigues]

Exhibition "Exchanging Money for Working Space or Money Equals Working Space"

Our Alumna Valentina Karga will be part of the exhibition "Exchanging Money for Working Space or Money Equals Working Space" at SixtyEight Art Institute in Copenhagen opening 10 March:

The exhibition borrows its title from an artwork by Danish conceptual artist Stig Brøgger, who in 1971 conceptualized the artist as a free agent liberated from norms and conventional frames of labour and finance. Based on this piece, the exhibition aims to question value-creation both within art and the broader contexts given in contemporary financialization. Valentina Karga and Pieterjan Grandry are presenting their collaborative project Market For Immaterial Value, - an investigation on creating, validating and disseminating art in the era of immaterial economy.

When?
10 March to 22 April 2017

Where?
SixtyEight Art Institute
Valkendorfsgade 11
1151 København K
Denmark

more information

Foto: Graduiertenschule

Instagram Graduate School

As of late the Graduate School has begun keeping an Instagram account. Get an insight into current events and projects of our fellows by following @Graduiertenschule Link to Profile