Symposium: ‘Dis/Assembly of Performative Things’, performance as a strategy
The Dis/Assembly of Performative Things is dedicated to performance as a strategy for designers to question their discipline, the contexts it operates in as well…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
MAXIMILIAN PRÜFER, exploring multi-species collaborations in time & space
Everything in the world bears witness to its own production. The works of the German artist Maximilian Prüfer, however, can be read as explicit reflections…
‘Stretching Materialities, fostering the relations between discursive practices and material phenomena’ by Leoni Fischer
We are our environment [1]. This short phrase opens up the full dimension of the multi-layered tensions between humans and the material environment, to which…
Panel talk: Un/certain Research- Searching for Knowledge in the Arts and Design
Art and science have always maintained diverse relationships with each other. For some years now, however, these have been explored anew in the context of…
‘A night aboard the Sun Machine’ by Leoni Fischer
The Sun Machine Is Coming Down! So reads the prophetic call filling my DM’s in a sudden gush. Over the last months, few messages spread…
AI & A.Life, Art Laboratory Berlin, Biomedia, Op & Ed
‘Under the Viral Shadow, thoughts from a transdisciplinary conference’ by Leoni Fischer
As the grand finale of the exhibition Under the Viral Shadow at Art Laboratory Berlin, the conference held on October 9 brought together the artists…
AI & A.Life, Interviews, Scout & Trends
TERRA0, enabling the forest to become an autonomous economic agent
“If we continue to restrict ourselves to viewing nature as a domain, as a work tool or material, rather than as a partner, everything is…
Exhibition: ‘Synchronicities’ at B-Part Am Gleisdreick Gallery Berlin
When the pandemic hit, we needed to rapidly reimagine our behaviours, routines and interactions. Now, after a year into the pandemic, those changes, which were…
Insight: SAGA Space Architects – News from no earthly pole
August 2020: SAGA’s self-folding LUNARK habitat –– envisioned for a life on the moon and carefully tailored to house the two-person crew during their three-month…
Insight: Brad Nath, swaying along with the sinister whispers of the rubble
Chalky rustling fills the room. The dark stage reveals an assemblage of thirteen cored building bricks stacked on top and beside each other like a…
MONIRA AL QADIRI, iridising the tragedy of Petroculture
In the early 1950s, when the business with the ‘black gold’ took off at an enormous pace, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf became…
Architectures, Interviews, Scout & Trends
SAGA Space Architects, on a mission to the equidistant between moon and earth
Two figures are walking through a vast scenery. Diffuse light sheds a gleam over the featureless territory. Packed up inside puffy white suits their walk…
STEVE BISHOP, orchestrating the notions of everyday life
I came across Steve Bishop for the first time last year, when I visited his installation Deliquescing at KW Berlin which got under my skin…