Mosaique and Checkpoint Queer - Community Talk. Between Networks of Legal Protection, Care and the Rise of Communities for Refugees in Lüneburg

This community talk invites Mosaique, a consum-free space and cultural center, and Checkpoint queer, a queer health center, to talk about their community based work in the city of Lüneburg. Two organizations with different expertises and approaches are brought together to delve into the rise of …

The First Congress of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft

Keynotes by Sigrid Weigel (Berlin), Andreas Reckwitz (Frankfurt/Oder), Heidrun Friese (Chemnitz), and Orit Halpern (Montréal)

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 …

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 …

FROM WHERE I STAND #1. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique

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.The workshop series »From Where I …

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 …

Temporalities of the Artistic Field. On the Practice, Materiality and Historicity of Artistic Production

In his talk, Hilmar Schäfer will raise questions on how artistic production can be grasped as a movement of practices and materialities through time. To this end, Pierre Bourdieu’s field and practice theory can first be used to establish a conceptual frame of reference. However, his neglect of …

Open Codes?

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

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EU-project in cooperation withVan Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, NLEuropean Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, Wien, AKumu Art Museum / Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, ESTLentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, AMACBA, Barcelona, E

Algeria 1960. Pierre Bourdieu's initiation journey into sociology

Lecture Algeria 1960. Pierre Bourdieu’s initiation journey into sociologyFriday, 04.02.2005, 14.30 hWorkshop Visual Anthropology. Pierre Bourdieu in AlgeriaFriday, 04.02.2005, 15.00 h - open end Saturday, 05.02.2005, 10.00 h - open end

In Between Subjects – Amelia Jones

This presentation gives an overview of Jones’s book In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Subjects, with attention to deeper motivations behind its development, and tracks her thinking about the intersection of “queer” and “performance” or “performativity” since the book was published. …

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 …

Art in the Periphery of the Center

Peripheries are profoundly ambiguous regions. While trying to build an attachment to their center, the periphery often finds itself marginalized or even excluded both on a structural and actor-related level – no matter if the center-periphery model is defined in terms of space or along relations of …

The Soviet Union as Conceptual Paradise. Moscow ‘Existential’ Conceptualism and Other Oddities

from the series of lectures “Conceptual Paradise. Artistic Practice in the Age of the Social Web”

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 …

Down with Love. Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work

Kathi Weeks will draw on the 1970s feminist critiques of love, romance, and feminine fulfillment to develop a critique of the popular mandate to »love your work« and the burgeoning literature on »happiness at work.«Kathi Weeks is a Professor in the Program »Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies« …

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 …

Olympia Bukkakis with Dagat Mera – Material Performance

Drag queen and choreographer Olympia Bukkakis will present a version of “Material Performance”. In this piece Olympia works with, against, for, and under 10 meters of red fabric. This time she is joined by artist and janitor Dagat Mera in a performative exploration of labour conditions, …

Postsecular Reckonings: Spirituality and Religion in Contemporary Art History and Cultural Studies

This international workshop is dedicated to religious reverberations in artistic and cultural practices, especially throughout the Americas, exploring the spiritual residues of our disciplines and methodologies.

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

This immersive exhibition 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 emotional and physical realities of displacement and survival.

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 …

Sapphic Reading Club

The ArchipelagoLab is a student-run space that is open to students and doctoral candidates for a wide range of participation. It provides the infrastructure for the planning and implementation of events and formats of all kinds and aims to be a safe space for this. The Lab is a hub in a network …

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, …

Wilson Sherwin – Bread and Rose Perfume: Politics of Abundance and Pleasure Against Precarity

Remote participation is possible via the following link: https://leuphana.zoom.us/j/94544702729?pwd=ZnV1TjBkZDR3clE1L0NtYUh0YzM4QT09 (Meeting ID: 945 4470 2729; Passcode: 303114)In the late 1960s and early 1970s, at the peak of the Vietnam war, poor Black welfare recipients across the …

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.

Second Congress of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft

Approximating Migrant and Filmic Practices Using the Example of HarragaLecture by Brigitta Kuster with subsequent discussion Friday, October 7, 2016, 2:00–3:45 p.m.Session of the section »Kulturwissenschaftliche Ästhetik« (Cultural-Analysis Aesthetics)Discussion of Susanne Leeb’s and Ruth …

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.

Demanding Supplies – Nachfragende Angebote III

with Daniel Buren, Diego Castro, Maria Eichhorn, Katja Staats, Stephan Dillemuth, Loretta Fahrenholz, Phillip Zach, nOffice

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 …

Interarchive

A project with Hans Peter Feldmann and Hans Ulrich Obrist

Queer, Life, Freedom. Archive of Resilience

“Queer, Life, Freedom” is a deeply personal and politically charged exploration of identity, exile, and survival. Inspired by the artist’s own experiences, the exhibition is divided into three spaces—representing Iran, Turkey, and Germany—each reflecting a different phase of the journey …

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EU-Project in cooperation withVan Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, NLEuropean Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, Wien, ALatvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, LVLentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, AMACBA, Barcelona, E

Workshop: Organization as a Medium of Contemporary Art

In artistic and activist practices since the 1990s, we can grasp a search for alternative modes of organizing within and against corporate capitalism. In turn, the challenges of organizing beyond spontaneist networks began to be thought and worked through more systematically in the wake of the …