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Park McArthur – Twice
Artist Park McArthur joins the M.A. Cultures of Critique at the Leuphana University Lüneburg for the 2023/24 winter term to conceptualize an exhibition for the Kunstraum. McArthur’s engagement with the Kunstraum begins with a listening session on October 25 and concludes with a public symposium and exhibition in January 2024. Under the influence of disabled artists’ ongoing experiments in description, McArthur’s exhibitionary desires are guided by and bound to the materiality of disability access (Geelia Ronkina).
pausenkino
Film screenings within the framework of <reformpause> at various public locations (lecture halls, art room, seminar rooms).A <reformpause> cinema will be programmed at various public venues (lecture halls, art room, seminar rooms), in which the examination and critique of educational …
Harkeerat Mangat – Good Neighbours
For his guest lecture, Harkeerat Mangat will string together two strands in his recent research: performance in Indian classical music and techniques for ethnographic filmmaking. Over a span of three years, Mangat worked together with residents of a park square in Düsseldorf, Germany to create a …
Post-X Politics
This workshop is a follow-up event to a workshop on Media Ecologies which took place in November 2016 at Concordia University, organized by the Global Emergent Media Lab and a reading group on Readings Around Media in Japan. In bringing this unique style of a reading group seminar to Lueneburg we …
Gefängnisfilme
Kunstraum is hosting a series of film screenings dedicated to the theme of prisons, the institution and its practices, forms of criminalization, gender issues, and the role of theater in prison.
VIVRE EN POF
Following a rally in Paris in conjunction with a Hybert exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Fabrice Hybert and students from the University of Lüneburg transformed the campus of the University of Lüneburg into a test track for Hybert’s prototypes of participatory …
Aesthetics of Measurement
The research project »Towards (Im)measurability of Art and Life« by Miya Yoshida (Art & Civic Media, Innovation Incubator, Lüneburg) addresses the ambivalence of measurement and measurability in contemporary realities and questions the apparent tendency to increasingly classify more and more …
Assistances (Working Title) w/ Valentina Desideri, Stefano Harney, Jason Hirata, Will Holder, Annick Kleizen, Cally Spooner, Eric Golo Stone, Mathilde Supe, Terre Thaemlitz, Marina Vishmidt
The event can also be attended online via Zoom (Password: assistant).Day 2: https://leuphana.zoom.us/j/95681732502?pwd=cWlwWko1ekxlMnp0VHZVVzNGVCt3QT09
Autogestion. Self-Organization and Social Transformation
From the Right to the City movement to the Transition Towns network, the role of self-organization has come back to the front stage of social, political and environmental practices involving activists as well as artists. How do self-organized communities search for »paths through utopia«? What is …
Image Worlds and Knowledge Systems. The Genesis of Modern Natural Sciences – Galileo and the Consequences
Moderator: Dr. Martin Warnke, Information Technology and Culture, Leuphana University of Lueneburg
Lena Knappert - Crossing narratives. Working through borders: Refugee employment from intersectional and contextual perspectives
This “Crossing Narratives” dialogue in the frame of the “Queer, Life, Freedom” exhibition invites Dr. Lena Knappert to hold a conversation touching upon topics like refugeehood at the intersection of gender, class, and queerness, the influence of context and other actors in host societies, and …
The True Value of Art
Roman Kräussl’s lecture deals with development trends on art markets, particularly with the phenomenon of high price phases preferably termed »bubble« in journalistic texts. However, using economic definitions as a basis, bubbles are actually a rare phenomenon in the art market. Against this …
Practice in Art Criticism
Art criticism today can’t exclusively be concerned with the description and classification of works of art any more. Rather art criticism has to reflect on the terms and conditions of the artistic field, that have dramatically changed since the 1980s and which at least co-determine what and …
Epistemology of Measurement
The research project »Towards (Im)measurability of Art and Life« by Miya Yoshida (Art & Civic Media, Innovation Incubator, Lüneburg) addresses the ambivalence of measurement and measurability in contemporary realities and questions the apparent tendency to increasingly classify more and more …
A Trans Hirschfeld Renaissance w/ Leah Tigers, Dean Erdmann, Maxi Wallenhorst and Raimund Wolfert
The conversation between historian and essayist Leah Tigers, artist Dean Erdmann, and historian Raimund Wolfert, moderated by author Maxi Wallenhorst and curator Christopher Weickenmeier, engages the recent proliferation of historical, literary, and artistic practices concerning the Institute for …
Ho Rui An - Student Bodies
Student Bodies, 2020, 24:35 min
Leda Bourgogne - The Professor's Body
As bell hooks famously observed in her 1993 essay “Eros, Eroticism, and the Pedagogical Process”, the professor’s body is marked by both “repression and denial”. Caught up in the long-exhausted Cartesian split between body and mind, teaching in higher education appears to be a predominantly …
Maberu & The Sound Republik Band - Heating the space
What happens when the institution’s keys are handed over? Which objects can be accessed and which should remain restricted to technical areas? How can university and city become more connected? Who belongs to the university? If we regard the campus as an extended institution that connects the …
Militante Untersuchung als artistic research?
One repeatedly encounters the concept of »militant research« in the most various contexts like the social movements in Argentina, job centres in Berlin-Neukölln, May Day marches, leftist anthologies, and, since a decade, in the field of art and theory production, as well. This concept arose not …
More Details from an Imaginary Universe
Title of Matt Mullican’s solo exhibition in Porto, Oxford, Barcelona, St. Gallen, Krefeld and Bolzano 2000-2001.
Occupational Realism
The lecture »Occupational Realism« by US-American art historian and critic Julia Bryan-Wilson at the Kunstraum of Leuphana University of Lüneburg draws upon her recent thinking of artistic labor and relates thoughts on the Art Workers’ Coalition (AWC) to the current Occupy Wall Street Movement.In …
Opening doors: Archive Visits
10 June - 9 July in parallel with the exhibition Seven WorksWhat happens when the institution’s keys are handed over? Which objects can be accessed and which should remain restricted to technical areas? How can university and city become more connected? Who belongs to the university? If we regard …
Politics of Measurement
The research project »Towards (Im)measurability of Art and Life« by Miya Yoshida (Art & Civic Media, Innovation Incubator, Lüneburg) addresses the ambivalence of measurement and measurability in contemporary realities and questions the apparent tendency to increasingly classify more and more …
Reading Club I: “Territory and Borders, Racial Capitalism and Sovereignty in Crisis” by Gargi Bhattacharyya
“Racial capitalism describes a set of techniques and a formation, and in both registers the disciplining and ordering of bodies through gender and sexuality and dis/ability and age flow through what is happening.” (Bhattacharyyam, p.10, 2018)How do borders shape our perception of the world? What …
Reading Club II: “Photographic Evangels” by Susan Sontag
Kuntsraum invites to a collective reading session of the chapter “Photographic Evangels”, by Susan Sontag, from the book On Photography. Side by side with Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin and Rosalind Franklin, Susan Sontag joins a core of thinkers that reflect on the uses of photography. …
SIEV-X. On a case of intensified refugee politics
on the occasion of the publication Dierk Schmidt: SIEV-X. On a case of aggravated refugee policy. A picture cycle in three parts, talks and texts. Series polypen at b_books, Berlin 2005.
Sifu Niklas Schmidt - Taijiquan: Slowing down the Campus
10 June - 9 July in parallel with the exhibition Seven WorksWhat happens when the institution’s keys are handed over? Which objects can be accessed and which should remain restricted to technical areas? How can university and city become more connected? Who belongs to the university? If we regard …
Uni-Kino - Nacht der Kurzfilme im Kunstraum
What exactly is a short film? And where can you see one? The second is easy to answer: at the Unikino! And the best way to answer the first question is to come to our special event in cooperation with the Kunstraum: the Long Night of Short Films on May 22. We’ll be giving your films a stage - …
Contemporary Art and African Perspectives
Moderation: Beate Söntgen
1 - 1 = 2 Hybert-Marché
With Fabrice Hybert and Hans Ulrich Obristin cooperation with the ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Ana Druwe - Expanded Ground
If we regard the campus as an extended institution that connects the Kunstraum to the city of Lüneburg, some of the questions posed by the exhibition Seven Works by Wisrah C. V da R. Celestino become an invitation to test different practices that reflect how the university institutes gathering gestures. Inspired by a seminar on institutional practices, the Kunstraum is open to activities that coexist, interfere, respond, or renegotiate Celestino’s scores.
Conceptual Paradise
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The Dividual
The exhibition „The Dividual“, curated by Joshua Simon at the Kunstraum of Leuphana University Lüneburg, explores an emergent subjectivity, divided from itself, and always-already part of something. With texts and works by Jacob Lawrence, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais, Emmanuela Soria Ruiz, Drexciya, Roee Rosen, Octavia Butler, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Sergei Eisenstein, Sylvère Lotringer, Ruth Patir, Andrei Platonov, Paul Klee, El Lissitzky, Georges Bataille, Emanuel Almborg, Shana Lutker, and Platon Kerzhenetsev.
The Economic Chain
“The Economic Chain” attempts to precisely contour the chain concept and the analysis of flows (flows of goods, flows of materials, etc.) as introduced into modern economic theory by the new economics and ecology for the first time.In addition to the analysis of the value chain, the …
Dis/b/orderly
The construction of a Fortress Europe as a “European gated community” (Pichl 2024) is no longer just the goal of a pan-European New Right and self-appointed, neo-national socialist border guards, but has also found its way into European governments through the agendas of supposedly …
The Professor´s Body. On Academic Affect and Habitus
As bell hooks famously observed in her 1993 essay “Eros, Eroticism, and the Pedagogical Process”, the professor’s body is marked by both “repression and denial”. Caught up in the long-exhausted Cartesian split between body and mind, teaching in higher education appears to be a predominantly …
Economies of Misery
An exhibition of photographs by Pierre BourdieuIn cooperation with Camera Austria Graz (Christine Frisinghelli), University of Geneva, Département de Sociologie (Franz Schultheis) and Fondation Pierre Bourdieu, Geneva https://camera-austria.at
Open Codes?
Exhibition in Collaboration with the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Planetary Consciousness
International group exhibition in the context of the project translateArtists: Christine Meisner, Mathias Poledna, Lisl Ponger, José Alejandro Restrepo
Critique of Creativity
Creativity is astir: reborn, re-conjured, re-branded, resurgent. The old myths of creation and creators – the hallowed labors and privileged agencies of demiurges and prime movers, of Biblical world-makers and self-fashioning artist-geniuses – are back underway, producing effects, circulating …
Twice
This practice seminar provides an occasion to consider American artist Park McArthur’s practice and presence among a recent generation of artists whose conceptualist and institutionally-responsive strategies both critique and re-imagine life’s material conditions in the 21st century. Introduced to a wider public with her solo exhibition Ramps, 2014, McArthur’s concern for the aesthetic possibilities and formal invention of debility, disability, and dependency have been the subject of solo and group exhibitions. Furthermore, how audiences access and experience artworks is a central concern of this course and of McArthur’s work more generally.