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.

IMPACT23 - Paola Bascón: Mineral Kinships

Introducing mineral touch

As you hold and touch a small stone,
I invite you to engage with it.
Feel its weight and texture,
recognize its shape and small details.

Take some time
and use your fingers as tactile microscopes
to magnify what might escape your eyes.

IMPACT23 - Sybille Neumeyer: Grounding Meteorology

»This is what a more-than-human politics actually looks like: the careful and conscious attention to the needs and desires of other lifeforms, the acknowledgement of their agency and value, and the willingness to adapt our existing structures of society towards a biocultural existence to better account for all of us.« (from ›global (s)warming‹, a meditative lecture; IMPACT23)

IMPACT23 – Assembly I

From co-existence towards multispecies cohabitation

IMPACT23 – Assembly II

Ecologies of Attention –  the fragility of facts, normality and social norms

IMPACT23 – Assembly III

Ecologies of Attention – listening to unrecognized forms of knowledge

IMPACT23 – Assembly IV

Ecologies of Attention – more than human sensing techniques

IMPACT23 – Assembly V

Ecologies of Attention – living together beyond consumer societies

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.