Alumni News
IASI
Georgia Sagri (Faculty Berlin '18) will develop a new chapter of her ongoing research on IASI (“recovery” in Greek), over a period of 3 months at Mimosa House, London. During this time, Sagri will work with selected participants to continue her research into self-care and recovery, a practice that expands on over 10 years of work, and includes voice tuning, breathing and movement techniques. Alongside Mimosa House, the continuation and development of the process until 2022 will be supported by…
Club-wise: A Theory of Our Time
Maisa Imamović (Alum Berlin '19) published "Club-wise: A Theory of Our Time" with the Institute of Network Cultures. The essay takes an experimental form, combining Imamovićs observations from Amsterdam's club scene with critical theory, music videos, and lyrics – to name but a handful of elements. "Meet the club-goer. Today he woke up thinking that, compared to the typical weight of his miseries, the day feels quite light. Upon waking up, he suddenly decided to go to the club tonight. Prior to…
We Don’t Say Goodbye
Organon exhibition space in Odense, Denmark presented the group exhibition We Don't Say Goodbye, a group show exploring the ideas of transhumanism through the works of twelve contemporary artists 18th October until 1st November. The exhibition included Ivaquexuta (aka Oriol Fuster), Žarko Aleksić, and curator Heidi Nikolaisen (all Alum Berlin '19). About the Exhibition Transhumanism is a movement fuelled by an attitude of seemingly unstoppable enthusiasm for life and for what the human species…
The Unforever Parallel
This month, Young Sun Han (Alum Berlin '18) opens his solo show "The Unforever Parallel" at Philadelphia's The Print Centre. Han's was a winning finalist of the prestigious ANNUAL International Competition Solo Shows. Approaching loss from both personal and collective points of view, Han explores his family narratives through the geopolitical history of North and South Korea in the 20th century. His photo-based installations poetically depict the places rooted in these histories. Han shows as…
Prospecting Ocean: Artistic Research in the Oceanic Anthropocene
As part the spring 2020 public program at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), curator Stefanie Hessler (Faculty Berlin '19) and artist Armin Linke will present the public talk, "Prospecting Ocean: Artistic Research in the Oceanic Anthropocene," and discuss their ongoing research into the intermingled social forces at play in the excavation of the world’s oceans. The talk on 30th March continues the work published the book Prospecting Ocean (MIT PRESS) by Hessler, which includes…
New Affinities: On Mark Fisher’s Popular Modernism
At the beginning of this year, Jon Lindblom (Faculty Berlin '19) of Modernism Unbound visited Tunisia to speak at New Affinities, a programme that develops Mark Fisher’s concept of popular modernism in Arabic, contextualised by and for the Arab World. With vast public events, New Affinities was designed with the aim of creating an intimate space, domestic in character, exploring the false dichotomy between the experimental/critical and mainstream/popular by presenting examples of popular…
A Contemporary Look at Punk From the Global to the Local
Layla Fassa (Alum Berlin '19) writes for Hyperallergic on the release of The Punk Reader (Intellect Books), a contemporary look at punk – from the global to the local. Layla explains, '...to understand what it is to be punk in the 21st century, a group of scholars who identify as punks, have gathered their research into an insightful book.' "If you ask kids these days what “punk music” is you’ll be casting a wide net. You’re just as likely to hear about Lil Uzi Vert or Warped Tour (RIP) as you…
Even If It’s At Night
Vincent Ceraudo (Alum NYC '19) opens 'Même si c'est la nuit | Even if it's at night' as part of Art Rotterdam, represented by Amsterdam's van Zijll Langhout Contemporary Art.
From there we came outside and we saw the stars, Video 4K and CGI, 12 min 13, 2019
The work of Vincent Ceraudo ranges from videos installations to…
The Observer Effect: On Contemporary Painting
This fall, e-flux celebrated Barry Schwabsky's (SFSIA co-director) new book is The Observer Effect: On Contemporary Painting (Sternberg Press), a wide-ranging collection of essays emphasizing the coextensive work of artist and viewer in constructing meaning. Additionally, Carol Szymanski presented…
The Pheonix, New Ways of Collaboration
This fall, Renata Zas (Alum Berlin '18) founded Buenos Aires-Berlin (BAB) with Valeria Geritzen with a workshop, "The Pheonix, New Ways of Collaboration" held at RAH Geyersbach, focussing on the question: How do we want to live the (art) world in the present and the future? BAB was founded on the 3rd of October 2019, on the 30th anniversary of the German's unity, "...looking at collaborative and horizontal practices and projects, within ways of leaving our egos aside; and decolonized thinking:…