UIQ (the unmaking-of)

»UIQ (the unmaking-of)« (2015, 78 min) is a spatialized electro-acoustic soundwork, or invisible film, that filmmaker-artists Graeme Thomson and Silvia Maglioni have created around Félix Guattari’s unmade science-fiction screenplay, »Un Amour d’UIQ« (A Love of UIQ). Working with the …

Acousmatics as a Laboratory

Acousmatics is a way of staging the voice in which the carrier of the voice is deliberately kept invisible. The Larousse Dictionary defines acousmatics as a sound that we hear without being able to see its origin. With the invention of radiophony and telephony, acousmatics – voices without a body – …

Artist talk

After a joint tour of Sergei Tcherepnin’s exhibition »Body Bound Notations«, during which he will »actualize« several of his sound sculptures, Fiona McGovern and Axel Wieder will talk with him about the underlying musical and theoretical concepts, as well as the potentials and problems involved in …

Sapphic Entanglements

Queer studies scholar Kadji Amin calls for “fuck[ing] with the universalizing presumptions of the taxonomical method from within by generating idiosyncratic interpretations and translations that explode the epistemological and ontological foundations of taxonomy itself.” (Amin 2023) Sapphic …

Memory Loops

Memorials are mostly commissioned works of art that are bound to a pre-definded space and function as symbolic gestures. The task to memorize or to come to terms with the past is delegated to the artist. Thus, an artistic engagement with memorials has to take into account questions of …

Non-human rave

“Non-human rave” draws out the sonic and musical potential of human and non-human improvisation. Using a musical instrument designed to read electrical impulses, Daria Melnikova connects the electrodes to fruits, vegetables and mushrooms. As the objects change, the style of the music …

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 …

There is something about yellow flowers

There is something about yellow flowers that I simply love. They hold memories like quiet witnesses of time—moments, smiles, greetings, goodbyes, tears, and melancholy. Sometimes, I like to imagine I am one of them. And then, there is the bird. It lingers in the periphery of my sight, weightless …

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 1: https://leuphana.zoom.us/j/94170832858?pwd=K0lzUjJjNXA1eGVBSW5VWTJGbWI5Zz09

Bitsy Knox – W'etter,

In her inaugural performance as guest lecturer this May at Kunstraum, Bitsy Knox will enter into a correspondence with the rain. As Knox´s prerecorded voice mixes with the amplified sound of rainwater being pumped into the Kunstraum, a subjectivity emerges that is indivisible from the ontogenesis …

Carolina Mendonça & Lara Ferrari - Zones of Resplendence

Zones of Resplendence explores forms of manifestation for a potential feminized army. Carolina Mendonça and Lara Ferrari investigate whether you can fight a war with vulnerability, expanding the perspective on violence. By using the body in different ways, they prepare themselves for a possible confrontation.

Exhibition Opening Unterwerfungen

In the lecture performance entitled “Well, a fresh breeze with words and gestures”, the artist, performer, and musician Susanne Sachsse confronts asynchronicity, subtraction, gaps, and unlearning, posing the question: Who or what is this talking, when the talk is about me? Susanne …

IN MY ROOM - filming the everyday

As part of the exhibition “IN MY ROOM - filming everyday life”, from June 29 to July 1, 2023, cinematic miniatures by students created between 2021-2023 in the eponymous seminar of Berlin filmmaker Caroline Pitzen will be shown. What forms can human beings find to make the supposedly …

"Enduring boredom": Heiner Goebbels and Anne Gräfe in conversation

In her book “Langeweile Aushalten - Kontingenzerfahrung in der Gegenwartskunst” [Enduring boredom - the experience of contingency in contemporary art], Anne Gräfe explores the power of aesthetic boredom: What can we expect from boredom? Where does this mood lead us as a special …

Momento Moche by Chicha Express | Sonja Ortiz and Emilio Urbay

The musical performance brings the ancient Peruvian Moche culture to life through psychedelic sounds and scenes. An immersive ritual that awakens all senses.

Ashkan Shabani - Queer, Life, Freedom. Archive of Resilience

“Queer, Life, Freedom” is an immersive exhibition that explores the journey of exile, identity, and resilience through photography, text, installation, and performance art. Divided into three distinct spaces—Iran, Turkey, and Germany—the exhibition invites visitors to experience the …

Uni-Kino - Nacht der Kurzfilme im Kunstraum

The selection of films is the result of an open call for students who have made short films as part of Leuphana seminar’s. Entrance: 7:30 pm

Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino - From Language

“From Language” is a lecture by artist Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino that delves into their artistic practice with particular attention to the linguistic and propositional structures that underpin their works. With their practice, Celestino approaches Language as a medium of operational …

DEADTIME (“Maggie’s Solo”) with Cally Spooner and Will Holder

“The exhibition at Kunstraum Leuphana University Lüneburg opens on May 30, 6pm and closes on June 28, 6pm. “Maggie’s Solo” is a 44'16" audio recording of Maggie Segale dancing in “early 2020”. The piece by Cally Spooner was also filmed, but the film will not be shown. I met Cally in 2014 which we both forgot...”

Open Codes?

Exhibition in Collaboration with the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

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).

Planetary Consciousness

International group exhibition in the context of the project translate Artists: 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 …