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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
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 …
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 …
reformpause
Exhibition in collaboration with students and the Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg, in the frame of the project transform
Florian Dombois & Christoph Oeschger: Films of the Wind
Where’s the wind when it’s not blowing? Can it be contained in a film?Most wind tunnels are there for testing. Almost everything is tested in them: Cars, air-planes, rockets, but also flies, people, or baseballs. After the testing comes optimization. The technologies of mobility devised …
Making Worlds
Open workshop of the <reformpause> project group led by Marion von Osten (artist, Berlin/Zurich) with the Kunstraum of the University of Lueneburg and members of the Institute for Cultural Theory, as well as guests: Madeleine Bernstorff, Julia Franz, MeineAkademie Berlin, Preclab Research …
Planetary Consciousness
International group exhibition in the context of the project translateArtists: Christine Meisner, Mathias Poledna, Lisl Ponger, José Alejandro Restrepo
Ecologies of Existence. Art and Media beyond the Anthropocene
with contributions by Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths, University of London), Jennifer Gabrys (Goldsmiths, University of London), Baruch Gottlieb (Telekommunisten, Berlin), Erich Hörl (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg), Knowbotiq (ZHdK, Zürich), Elke Marhöfer und Mikhali Lylov (Berlin)Stamatia Portanova …
Manifesta 6. The failure is the project
“For substantial reasons, it would not have been meaningful to mount yet another large group exhibition on Cyprus. So we decided to establish a school where cultural production could be investigated by means of transdisciplinary techniques. A school that would deal with the issue of …
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 …
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 …
Art and its Frames. Continuity and Change
with Beatrice von Bismarck (Leipzig/Berlin), Julia Bryan-Wilson (Berkeley), Helmut Draxler (Berlin/Nürnberg), Andrea Fraser (Los Angeles), Renée Green (Cambridge, Mass.), Hannes Loichinger (Lüneburg), Sven Lütticken (Amsterdam), John Miller (New York), Marion von Osten (Berlin), Gerald Raunig …
Art at Auction. A Record of Records
Christophe Spaenjers is an economist from Belgium, known in the contemporary field of art for his historical research on the art market. »Art and Money«, available in two papers co-authored with William Goetzmann (Yale University) and Luc Renneboog (Tilburg University) in 2010 and 2011, is his best …
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.
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 …
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Ute Klissenbauer und Dierk Schmidt diskutieren mit Ulrich Lölke spezifische Herausforderungen für ihre Projekte UFO UNO und “Die Teilung der Erde” an der Schnittstelle zwischen Wissenschaft, Kunst und Politik.
FROM WHERE I STAND #2. Between theory and pose
When writing about feminist art, and possibly for feminist motives, scholars face the problem that their research not only partakes in making visible and valuing politically engaged practices, but also risks depoliticizing them by inscribing them into art history and into a canon they never wanted …
In the Stomach of the Predators. The Monopolization of Seeds and its Methodological Representation
In his long-term works, the Berlin-based artist Andreas Siekmann is frequently engaged with the privatisation of public property and the restructuring of labour relations under the conditions of globalisation. This is also the case with »In the Stomach of the Predators«, an installation from 2014 …
Poem reading by Leila Mousavi and Q&A with artists
What is weaving? We often think of it as making objects — as a technique to produce commercial goods, like the clothes we all wear. Yet, in many cultures, weaving is not only a way to produce external objects, but also a deeply internal process, connected to spiritual practices. The cultural codes …
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 …
MOMENTO MOCHE
What happens if the past is not just an echo, but an active presence?
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 …
Rahel Spöhrer - Haptic Academia
Universities are known as environments hostile to the body and affect with a primary focus on cognitive, rational, and critical thought. They are also sites of disciplinary power, inequalities, discrimination, and abuse. At the same time, the bodies that move through these institutions experience …
Recounting the Past, Present and Future. Art, Sense of Place and Society
The question of whether art should respond to social responsibilities is not new and has been addressed by innumerable artists and authors. For the Palestinian art institute Al Hoash, it has been important since its foundation in 2004 to take part in social debates and activities – in line with its …
Sasha Levkovich - Just Call Me
Interpretation as an art form opens a possibility of critical interaction with such notions as novelty, individualism and the patriarchal myth of the “genius”.It acknowledges the reading in the writing and vice versa. But It goes further than the typical Roland Barthes’ Reader-Author relationship. …
Souvenirs and Trophies
The American artist Mark Dion has been working for more than 10 years on the cultural representation of nature and is internationally regarded as one of the most important representatives of context art. This year, for the first time, a large, retrospective traveling exhibition will be dedicated to …
Terra Critica – Why critique?
Birgit Mara Kaiser is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Transcultural Aesthetics at Utrecht University. Her research spans literatures in English, French and German from the 19th to 21st century, with particular focus on poetic knowledge production; the relation of literature, …
What do we talk about when we talk about ... IHRA und Jerusalem Declaration
Peter Ullrich, Center for Research on Antisemitism, TU Berlin (German)
What do we talk about when we talk about ... Moishe Postone
Frank Engster, Helle Panke e.V., Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Berlin (German)
What do we talk about when we talk about ... Never Again
Omer Bartov, Holocaust Scholar and Professor for European History and German Studies, Brown University (English; Omer Bartov will join us via Zoom)
What do we talk about when we talk about…. With Heidi Grunebaum
Film Screening and discussion of „The Village Under the Forest“ (2013) by Mark J Kaplan & Heidi Grunebaum
Without you I wouldn't, with you all I would
Has a stone ever brought you comfort? Have you ever found solace in watching the waves of the sea? Did the image of drifting clouds ever mean to make you feel the same way?In a two-day zine workshop we will explore solace as a more-than-human concept and as an essential step towards resilience and …
Zavier Nunn - Trans Liminalities: Histories From Weimar and Nazi Germany
Focusing on trans women’s subjectivities, this talk explores the micro and macro registers of how everyday trans life was experienced, policed, and cut short across the Weimar and Nazi regimes, sometimes in surprising – but always uneven – ways.
all our tomorrows
International group exhibition in the frame of the project translateArtists: Donald Rodney, Shilpa Gupta, Hetain Patel, Owusu-Ankomah, Elmgreen and Dragset, Song Dong, Zhang Dali, Yukiko Terada, Hew Locke, Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, Sabine Fassl, Johannes Wohnseifer and Lisl Ponger
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...
Demanding Supplies – Nachfragende Angebote I
with nOffice (Markus Miessen, Ralf Pflugfelder, Magnus Nilsson), Berlin/London
Demanding Supplies – Nachfragende Angebote III
with Daniel Buren, Diego Castro, Maria Eichhorn, Katja Staats, Stephan Dillemuth, Loretta Fahrenholz, Phillip Zach, nOffice
The Campus as a Work of Art
An artistic work in two parts with Christian Philipp Müller
The Division of the World
After years of experimenting with today’s possibilities of the strongly tainted artistic genre of historical painting and the traditions of modern painting, Dierk Schmidt has most recently been dealing with the role which the German Reich played in the history of colonialism. German involvement in …
Ẹ̀dùmarè, When Am I?
This interactive media performance examines Blackness as temporality—not simply as a question of identity, but as an unfolding, non-linear existence. Drawing inspiration from Michelle M. Wright’s Physics of Blackness, which reframes Blackness as a “when” rather than a “what,” and invoking Ẹ̀dùmarè, the Yoruba omnipresent deity of creation, the work explores how Black being is lived, perceived, and embodied across alternate realities.
FAKTURA
An exhibition organized by Leuphana Arts Program (LAP), hosted by Kunstraum of Leuphana University of Lüneburgwith Martin John Callanan (UK), Driessens & Verstappen (NL), Sabrina Raaf (US), Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag (DE), and Herwig Turk (AT/PT)
Import / Export Funk Office
Project and exhibition with Renée Green in cooperation with Kulturinformatik (Martin Warnke)
Interarchive
A project with Hans Peter Feldmann and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Moirés
International group exhibition in the context of the project transformArtists: Andreas Fogarasi, Katya Sander, Urtica, art and media research group
Open Codes?
Exhibition in Collaboration with the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
String Theory String Practice ㅤ
What is weaving? We often think of it as making objects — as a technique to produce commercial goods, like the clothes we all wear. Yet, in many cultures, weaving is not only a way to produce external objects, but also a deeply internal process, connected to spiritual practices. This exhibition invites you to explore weaving as a way of thinking — and to engage with the threads stitching different contexts, fields and worldviews together.
Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino - Seven Works
Kunstraum of the Leuphana University Lüneburg is pleased to announce Seven Works, a solo exhibition by Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino curated by Ana Druwe in collaboration with Halle für Kunst Lüneburg and Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) in Culture and Society. The exhibition brings a set of works by Celestino in dialogue with the specific context of Kunstraum Leuphana Lüneburg. It highlights the interplay between the institution's archive, the university campus, and its historical connection with Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, exploring potential porosity between the university and the city.