Recap - life.like

What spheres exist beyond the dividing lines of the living and non-living? What relationships and spaces of possibility emerge between technologies and artistic practices? In a transdisciplinary program of lectures, talks, installations and performances, 'life.like' questioned the boundaries between machines, objects and biological systems.

Rückblick ›Claiming Common Spaces V: No One’s Land‹

Claiming Common Spaces V: No One’s Land fand vom 9. – 12. Februar 2023 im Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt am Main zum Thema Zukunft der Internationalität statt. Die fünfte Ausgabe richtete ihren Blick auf das Inter der Nationen – Grenzen und Grenzgebiete – sowie auf Gemeinschaften, die sich nicht nationalstaatlich organisieren.

Tim Etchells about Shifting Ground

Tim Etchells can’t think of a better place to show his neon installation ›Shifting Ground‹: »The story here at PACT, the shift from industrial to cultural space, makes it a great intervention by evoking the question: How do we negotiate the shifting grounds as we go forward?« ›Shifting Ground‹ will be the opening of PACT’s 20 year anniversary festival from May 20 – 22.

Saša Asentić & Collaborators: DIS_Kurs – Videoreihe mit Leroy F. Moore

Leroy F. Moore Jr. is an African American poet, journalist and community activist based in Los Angeles, California. In the second part of the video series, taking place in February 2022, some of Leroy’s friends and colleagues will speak about their favorite sections of his book ›Black Disabled Art History 101‹. The videos include contributions from Ottis Smith, Keith Jones, Toni Hickman, Ace Berstein, Lateef McLeod, Gabe Wilson and Krystina Jackson, who are themselves leading artists, activists and even Emmy Award winners.

Saša Asentić & Collaborators: DIS_Kurs – Video series with Artie Mack

After DIS_Sylphide, DIS_Move and DIS_Lecture, Saša Asentić & Collaborators present their newest project DIS_Kurs. Saša Asentić curated DIS_Kurs as a digital video series on Disability Arts History and Politics and their critical intertwinement with ableism, racism, classism and capitalism. For the series they invited two artists/scholars/activists from the US who will share their knowledge and critique through a video series: Artie Mack and Leroy F. Moore.

What traces do we leave behind in the internet? Made To Measure: An investigative data experiment

IMPACT21 – Urgent Translations | Arne Vogelgesang: Let's play infowars!

The artist Arne Vogelgesang examines the aesthetics of radical propaganda and methods of political radicalization on the Internet and reveals how gamification, memes and viral fake news shape political discourse and increasingly intervene in social realities. 

IMPACT21 – Urgent Translations | Birgit Schneider: Zukunftsvorstellungen in Zeiten des Klimawandels zwischen Kollaps, Techno-Fix und Transformation

How can images foster social change in times of ecological crisis? To what extent can images become a driving force, convey knowledge and turn knowledge into action? Birgit Schneider analyzes the imagery of the climate crisis and its ascribed meaning and content.

Spot on Economies - 1/2/8 Research Forum: Lecture by Surbhi Kesar / Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

How are universities colonial? How are theoretical concepts in the economics field colonial? How may our teaching be colonial? What impact may this have in shaping the policy-making and society at large? In this talk we engage in an overarching conversation on the colonisation and decolonisation of the economic discipline.  

Spot on Economies - 1/2/8 Research Forum: Lecture with Common Wallet

Spot on Economies takes a look at economies as crucial cross-roads between social, ecological, and political futures. Radical questions on the economy meet with alternative practices and together open up new horizons of thought and agency. The Common Wallet is an initiative of 11 Brussels-based people who, since January 2018, live out of a common bank account. In their lecture, Ingrid Vranken, Tiziana Penna and Adva Zakaï introduce the basic principles of the project. 

Spot on Economies - 1/2/8 Research Forum: Vorträge von Ozan Alakavuklar und Valeria Graziano & Giulia Palladini

Spot on Economies takes a look at economies as crucial cross-roads between social, ecological, and political futures. Radical questions on the economy meet with alternative practices and together open up new horizons of thought and agency. The lecture by Ozan Alakavuklar explores possible alliances between science and activism to promote other economies while Valeria Graziano und Giulia Palladini the logic of abundance in their lecture.

IMPACT20 Lecture: Lars Blank ›You might want to ask what microbes can do for you and you for the microbes‹