Cooperating Partners

The DFG Research Training Group "The Knowledge of the Arts" has collaborated with various institutions of the UdK Berlin as well as with national and international universities and institutions from the arts and culture. The collaborations have had different formats, but the overarching goal of researching questions of knowledge (in) artistic practices and bringing them to the public.

The Research Training Group cooperates with the following institutions, among others:      

• Studium Generale, Berlin University of the Arts
  Lecture series "DECOLONIZING ARTS: Aesthetic Practices of Learning and Unlearning", lecture series "Violence in the Arts", lecture series "Tuning into Worlds. More-than-Human Aesthetics in the Arts", Workshop with Christoph Cox — 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
• Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences, UdK Berlin
  Salon for Aesthetic Experiments #3 - 2017.
  Joint Conference on Documenting and Documentary Practices in the Arts and Sciences - 2017.
• Centre for Advance Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS)/ Graduate School, Berlin University of the Arts — ongoing 
• Feminist MagiX. Decolonial Inlets (Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Büro für kulturelle Übersetzungen) 
  Workshop cacophonic cliniX, Workshop shaman poetiX – 2020
• Internationalen Netzwerks Medienphilosophie
  Workshop "Beyond Technology. Perspectives of International Media Philosophy" – 2019
• Gesellschaft für künstlerische Forschung
  Tagung "Forschungsmaschine" – 2019
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik
  Tagung "Forschungsmaschine" – 2019
• Zurich University of the Arts
  Tagung "Forschungsmaschine" – 2019
• District * School Without Center 
  Workshop shaman poetiX – 2020 
  Symposium "sharing/learning: Methods of the Collective in Art, Research and Activism" – 2019
• Volksbühne
  Series „WISSEN DER KÜNSTE:“ Cooperation with Grüner Salon
  Exhibition and launch of issue #8 of the online-publication "On Decolonial Deferrals" – 2019
  Presentation and discussion "Quiet Flows the Stream" – 2019
  Tagung "Forschungsmaschine" – 2019
  Discussion „Prekäre Substanzen in Film und Literatur" ­— 2019
• diffrakt. centre for theoretical periphery
  Conversation „Translation as a Relational Practice" with Emily Apter, Annika Haas and Moritz Gansen — 2019
  Workshop "Von anderen Räumen. Science-Fiction-Architekturen"  — 2018
  Workshop "Artists as Historians" with Black Athena Collective (Heba Y. Amin and Dawit L. Petros) — 2018
• Department of Cultural History and Theory, HU Berlin
  Workshop “Violent Knowledge: Power and Cruelty in the Arts.” — 2018 
• Kino Arsenal
  Screening and Talk "Forgetting Vietnam" by and with Trinh T. Minh-ha — 2017
• SAVVY Contemporary
  Screening and Talk "Sambizanga" by Sarah Maldoror with Barbara Gronau and Maja Figge — 2017
• Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK)
  Lecture by Ruth Sonderegger — 2017
• Acud Macht Neu
  Symposium  “Aesthetics of the Speculative"— 2017
• Institute of Religious Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin
  Workshop "Training Practice: Intersection of Knowledge Generation and Subject Formation” — 2016
• University of Aberdeen
  Workshop "Knowing From The Inside," "Hands on Knowledge" — 2015, 2016
• Hybrid Plattform — ongoing

Participating researchers include:

Prof. Dr. Martina Dobbe, Professor for modern and contemporary art at the Art Academy Düsseldorf
Prof. Dr. Karin Harrasser, Cultural studies, The University of Art and Design Linz
Prof. Dr. Stephen Hinton, Music, Stanford University
Prof. Dr. Dieter Mersch, Theory and aesthetics, Zurich University of the Arts
Prof. Dr. Tania Michalsky, Director of the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome
Prof. Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, Architecture and digital technologies, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen