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.

1/2/8 Spot On Economies #Insights with Chloé More, Flora Fettah and Jeanne Giacobetti

Chloé More, Flora Fettah are working together with Jeanne Giacobetti to address food waste in our society in both practice and theory.

1/2/8 Spot On Economies

With backgrounds in the humanities, social sciences, architecture and technology research, Philipp Frey, Will Stronge, Christoph Schneider and Julian Siravo build a multidisciplinary team that have come together to initiate joint processes of thinking on the concept of innovation from a democratic and local perspective.

1/2/8 Spot On Economies #Insights with Licia Soldavini and Mascha Fehse

Licia Soldavini and Mascha Fehse are urban planners who with the Initiative ConstructLab in Berlin develop inclusive, unifying approaches to the conception, planning and implementation of community building projects. During their residency, they address the question of how to create sustainable ways of organising cultural and activist (care) work in the urban realm.

1/2/8 Spot On Economies #Insights with Mathis Richtmann, Sonia Kuhls, Rosa Hesse and Úlfur Logason

The group is working on the idea of a graphic novel as a way to build a basic understanding of our financial markets and banking systems to people that have not been educated in that field.