»Late Summer Research – Laboratories for collaborative artistic research«

Keynote »Gaps and Excesses: Interventions into the colonial archive«

by Eva Knopf, followed by a screening of her film »Majub’s Journey«

In her lecture, the filmmaker and film theorist will speak about her research-based artistic practice in colonial and postcolonial archives that led to her film »Majub’s Journey.«

»doing entanglements through endurance«

Lab II with Annette Krauss, Ferdiansyah Thajib and Astrid S. Klein

If endurance is neither resilience nor survival, but »a means of continuing to continue not attributable to some inner force or underlying proposition,« how can we foster the capacity to endure, the capacity to connect with and entangle oneself in »seemingly dissonant experiences or ways of doing things, and which are without confident translations« (Abdoumaleq Simone, 2012)? Departing from this question and offering some additional terms derived from looking at intertwinements of their practices, Annette Krauss, Ferdiansyah Thajib and Astrid S. Klein invite to narrate further intersections.

The last two labs of the day by EXP.edition and the Ecosystems of Knowledge-Working Group will invite you to a synergetic space of experience of artistic research: Outside we will explore techniques of sensory perception for poetizing the body and its context. Afterwards we will come together for an open discussion to talk about concepts of the non- und posthuman in our project space at Römerstraße and in cyberspace.

 

»Re-coding Anticipation. A Micro-EXP.edition«

Lab III with the EXP.edition (Demian Bern, Elena Morena Weber and guests)

In a two-hour course, the laboratory simulates situations that are developed and used in the artistic research format of EXP.editions. Together with Elena Morena Weber, Demian Bern and guests, the participants will use a terrain in the south of Stuttgart for micro-field research. The combination of individual expertise and collective intelligence will be tested here, as well as strategies for poetizing the surrounding space, the use of the body as a space probe. We recommend wearing comfortable clothing and shoes – we will be moving around outdoors – and bring a cell phone.

 

»Encounters with the Non- and Posthuman«

Lab IV with the Ecosystems of Knowledge-Working Group (Aouefa Amoussouvi, Hemal Naik and guests)

In the form of an open dialog the group invites you to discuss different forms of the non- and posthuman and your experiences with it. What does it mean to be human? Which knowledge can the environment and other living and non-living creatures teach us? We will also examine how the development of technology expands the capacities of mankind both positively and negatively and how it questions the definition of nature.

You can take part online as well at the Römerstraße project space. To attend online, we will send a link after you have registered.