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Sound as Divinity with SAVVYZΛΛR
Through October, SAVVYZΛΛR takes listeners on sonorous travel tracing a number of archaeological musical artifacts native to Mesoamerica before the arrival of the Europeans. The series of journeys wander into the early perceptions regarding sound conceived as divinity. SAVVYZΛΛR, under the artistic direction of Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (Faculty '19, '20) commissioned composer, educator, musician and instrument maker Luis Perez Ixoneztli to produce a 4-part series which peers into profound…
Collisions & Render Engines
Diogo Tudela's (Alum LA '18 and Berlin '18) exhibition "Collisions & Render Engines" was recently on view at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon, Portugal. "Collisions & Render Engines can be defined as a real time aural-visual theatre of impacts and debris. The presented structure tries to materialize an information system enclosing possible trajectories within the feedback loop that connects the aesthetic artifacts of warfare to its entertainment counterparts." – Diogo…
Machine Reveries and the Possibility of Thought Beyond the Human Body
Jack Booth (alum Berlin '19) published his essay 'Machine Reveries and the Possibility of Thought Beyond the Human Body' for the Spring '20 issue of Strelka Magazine. "Machine-machine vision—a parallel visual culture developed by machines, for machines—is testing the boundaries of what we consider thought." – Jack Booth In the essay Jack examines how '...In his 1987 essay “Can Thought Go On Without A Body?” the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard saw thought as inseparable from the body; the body…
STENCILS
la GALERIE IMAGINAIRE presents 'S T E N C I L S' a group exhibition on the streets of Quito, Ecuador.
In November, Elena Bajo (Faculty Berlin '16) was amongst the group of artists to create an exhibition across the streets of Quito, Equador.
Participating Artists: Adolfo Bernal, Carolina Caycedo,…
Reimagined Narratives: From Spatial Memory to Mapping the Future
This past fall, Alexandra Stock (Alum NYC '19) joined the curating board of Art D’Égypte and curated "Reimagined Narratives," the third in a series of annual exhibitions held at different heritage sites across Cairo.
"Reimagined Narratives: From Spatial Memory to Mapping the Future" that ran from October…
Seeing Color Podcast
On his Seeing Color podcast, Zhiwan Cheung (Alum '19 Berlin) talks with cultural workers and artists of color "to expand what is a predominantly white space in the arts." Cheung explains, "Seeing Color came from a desire to broaden the scope of art discussions, from a perspective that art cannot always be distinct from the race of its author, from a wanting for a critical analysis aware of and critical towards the white canon, for a wish that my younger self could have heard and learned from…
Core Desires, Counter Prospects
Quinn Latimer (Faculty Berlin '18) interviews New Mineral Collective's (NMC) for Canadian Art. 'Core Desires, Counter Prospects' digs into their wide-ranging practice which explores landscapes of extraction – looking for a different set of values in the earth’s mineral core.
New Mineral…
Confluence Ecologies
Last fall, Kayla Anderson (alum Berlin '19) collaborated on the project Inheritance, as part of HKW's Anthropocene Curriculum Confluence Ecologies show at Southern Illinois University's Museum. Inheritance was part of Field Station 4 in “confluence territory” where the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers meet (in Southern Illinois and Western Kentucky). A multimedia artwork to uncover the sublime beauty of fossilised forests.
First We Feast
Last summer, "First We Feast", a documentary essay by Alice Sarmiento (Alum NYC '19) was published in Schloss-Post. »Kain!« »Kain ka muna!« or »Kain tayo!« are common ways to demonstrate Philippine hospitality. They all roughly translate to the same thing: »Let’s eat.« In her documentary essay, Alice Sarmiento reports on the life, and motivations, and cultural backgrounds of German-Filipino women. Sarmiento traces down that many of these women are part of a larger community, in which…
TWWWO: Matter in Flux
The World in Which We Occur (TWWWO) is a curatorial research-based entity organized by Jennifer Teets (Faculty Berlin '16, '17, '19 and LA '18) that explores themes concerned with artistic inquiry, philosophy of science, and ecology. TWWWO began as a live event series over the telephone in 2014, and has thus…