Every Word Casts a Shadow

Thomas Jefferson was many things: Enlightenment philosopher, president of the USA, founder of a university. He was also a proponent of the abolition of slavery, but only in theory. In fact, he himself held people in enslavement and numerous racist remarks can be found in his writings. Students at …

Research Avatara Species Transformellae and the WordWideWitch. Constructed bodies harvesting psycho-realist knowledge

Transformellae and WordWideWitch are just two of the multiple, fictional identities and hysterical-subversive drag characters of the artist Johannes Paul Raether. They are drawn from Raether’s cyclical performance system Systema identitekturae, in which he has been gathering embodiments as well as …

Processing Worlds, Processing Back Words. Thinking Through the Act of Curating

In her presentation, Miya Yoshida will discuss the potentials, limitations and possibilities of artistic research by introducing her PhD project at Malmö Art Academy / Lund University she realized in 2006, simultaneously an exhibition that she engaged as a research. Based on this project, she will …

Memorys and Prepositions and Conjunctions and in all Seriousness

Institutionally over- and practically underdetermined: the Kunstraum. Consisting of two equally oversized signifiers – "Kunst" (art) and "Raum" (space) – the name triggers either an excess or a lack of expectation. The inevitable disappointment is perhaps the better form of institutional critique – at least these days, in Germany. The institution, notoriously, presupposes itself (in time, too), and its stake is always at minimum a linguistic one. This is where Leonie Nagel feat. Bonk4∞ intervene. They playfully engage with the institution within a prepared environment, whose maximally weak rule is the connection (or association, if it didn't sound so class-treasonous) between words and images and bodies.

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 – …

Backstage I

Exhibition in three parts and three phases»Ozarichi, März 1944« in UC, Hall 25 »Megalothymia« in UC, building 10, ground floor Christian Boltanski, »Die Archive der Großeltern« in UC, building 7, basementOpening of »Backstage I« on Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 7pm in lecture hall 5 with contributions …

Backstage III

Exhibition in three parts and phases»Ozarichi, März 1944« in campus hall 25 »Megalothymia« in campus building 10, ground floor Christian Boltanski, »Die Archive der Großeltern« in campus building 7, basementOpening of »Backstage III« on Wednesday, June 14, at 6:30pm with short presentations and a …

Against Masculine Domination. Building the Body

Female bodybuilding has been discussed as a queer practice of transgressing stereotypes of sex, gender and essentialist forms of identity, as well as a field in which, in a paradoxical way, open and veiled practices of reproduction of such stereotypes and the common-sense gender binary (especially …

Art, Ecology and Sustainable Development

The symposium “Art, ecology and sustainable development” deals with ecologically oriented art/architecture and investigates the relevance of the current discourses on “sustainable development”, which also accompany the EXPO 2000 in Hannover, for art and the art field.The …

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

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

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.

The city is our factory

Christoph Schäfer will present his artistic-activist approach at the Kunstraum on the basis of his widely received visual essay ‘The City is our Factory,’ which was published in 2010 by Spector Books. Using a water color pen, Christoph Schäfer traced in this essay the conceptual landscapes and …

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 …

Is there a Hermaphrodite Logic? - Juliana Gleeson

This talk will introduce Juliana Gleeson's fresh history of the intersex liberation movement, Hermaphrodite Logic, and especially whether the book is correctly billed as a 35 year movement history... Or is better viewed as a philosophy of sex's expressive character. Gallows humour guaranteed.

Mohammad Shawky Hassan – „Bashtaalak sa’at“ (Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?)

Filmscreening “Bashtaalak sa’at” (Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?) by Mohammad Shawky Hassan (66 min, AR & E with English ST, EG, LB, D 2022).A glance leads to a smile, a smile to a rendezvous: every love story begins the same way. These narratives are stored in …

Natalia Vasco - Somatic Workshop

This workshop offers a sensory and physical exploration of absence, allowing participants to experience emotions and memories through the body rather than through rationalization. Through guided meditation, movement repetition, and automatic writing, we create a space to perceive how absence …

Reflections and Oppositional Art. Responsibility, Aesthetics… Humor (Because Without Humor The Work Would Be Dead)

Sands Murray-Wassink’s paintings and especially his performances deal with identity politics and the performance of the explicit body. In doing so they follow a tradition of Performance Art that aimed to blur the borders between life and art that became prominent in the 1960s and 1970s. …

ReproReality HackLab 005 – 006, FertilityCave 1.0.7

»ReproReality HackLabs« are a series of gatherings of likeminded and associated as well as individuals to discuss ideas and develop tools around Reproductive Technologies. They aim to extract these Technologies from their biopolitical determination. »ReproReality HackLabs« are hosted by a lifeline …

The Embedded Critic. Writing About Art in Latin America

This lecture will address art criticism in 20th Century Latin America through a strategic focus on the writings of three remarkable women: Nelly Richard, Suely Rolnik and Marta Traba.All three follow conceptions of criticism which draw from Roland Barthes’ notion of the »eternally written« text, …

Assistances (Working Title)

A two-day workshop with Valentina Desideri, Stefano Harney, Jason Hirata, Will Holder, Annick Kleizen, Cally Spooner, Eric Golo Stone, Mathilde Supe, Terre Thaemlitz, Marina Vishmidt

The assistant who doesn’t identify with their work is often a bringer of horrible mood, which is not to be underestimated. In fact, it can serve us as a methodology...

Conceptual Paradise

Ausstellung

Films to Postpone the End of the World. Tropical Dystopias and the (Re)Invention of the Future

Based on Brazilian films that engage with dystopian imaginaries or propose inspiring alternatives for navigating today’s global collapse, this series displaces the end of the world and notions of the future to the South tropics of the world. It creates a space for collectively, creatively, and critically experiencing cinema, inviting the audience to reflect on ways of reinventing the future and on forms of disrupting singular accounts of its end. Within this selection, certain degrees of negativity are acknowledged and embraced, since ending something might imply the beginning of something else.

Front, Field, Line, Plane

The idea and images of protest have moved to the foreground recently both in the work of artists and in the global media. On the one hand, artists are documenting the wave of protests that have built up since the memorable moment of Seattle in 1999 up to the ascendance of the Occupy movement; and …

Backstage II

Exhibition in three parts and three phases»Ozarichi, März 1944« in campus hall 25 »Megalothymia« in campus building 10, ground floor Christian Boltanski, »Die Archive der Großeltern« in campus building 7, basementOpening of »Backstage II« on Wednesday, April 26, at 6:15pm with short presentations …

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).

Services

Conditions and relations of project-oriented artistic practices. The findings of a working group and an exhibition.Exhibition: Video tapes of the meetings of the working groups and material documenting projects, exhibitions, and organisations which have re-defined the relation of artists and …

Die Gewalt des Gesprächs. Vom Reden und seinem Nutzen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst

Das öffentliche KünstlerInnengespräch ist aus der zeitgenössischen Kunst nicht mehr wegzudenken. Ob sie der Kontextualisierung von Ausstellungsinhalten, der Inszenierung von Künstlerpersönlichkeiten oder ganz allgemein „der Vermittlung und dem Diskurs“ (so der offizielle Tätigkeitsbereich einiger …