#ResidencyInsights Association for Black Art_ists

During the Association for Black Art_ists (ASBA) residency at PACT, Fayo Said, Clémence Garcia-Lindenmeyer and Marny Garcia Mommertz spent three weeks in Essen, where they initiated the conversation series ›Walgahi Conversations on Black Archiving‹.

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.

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Kai Er Eng

»In September 2021 at PACT Zollverein, I spent time dancing on a ›wheel sculpture‹, reading, and writing. It was my first time at Zollverein and the architecture and parts of machinery (from the old coal mining industry) that were everywhere, occupied a big part of my thinking.«

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

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Theo Livesey, Liza Baliasnaja & Christine De Smedt

The starting point of Theo Livesey's, Liza Baliasnaja's & Christine De Smedt's research is an interest in ‘invisible’ forms of violence that often remain unnoticed, yet have the capacity to leave a trace upon one’s memory, body and mental life.

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.

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Intergenerative Dramaturgie Recherche