Artist and researcher Adelheid Mers (lives and works/teaches in Chicago) uses diagrammatic means to probe artistic and communal processes of knowing and working.
This seminar is part of the concept preparation for an exhibition in March 2019 in Berlin, at Kunstverein Nord, that Mers will participate in.
This course is offered as a block seminar. Using existing diagrammatic templates (Fractal 3-Line Matrix und Braid), participants will be able to conduct facilitated auto-epistemologies that tease out personally preferred ways of working and creating new knowledge (cognitive engines). This material will be the basis for collaborative work that will consider mobile, topological forms of public, meta-cognitive spaces.
A leading question is how communal knowledge emerges in context. Our explorations will include performative uses of simple objects and gestures to experiment with arising, connective patterns. In preparation for the exhibition, field trips to Berlin Moabit will serve to establish connections within the local, cultural ecology, with the goal to develop ways to offer participatory uses for the installation.
This course is a lab or workshop, offered in German and English. It will take place in Weimar and Berlin. An intensive presence phase is planned for October 2018 in Weimar (8. - 20. 10.). Additional participation is possible and in March 2019, in Berlin (4. - 16.3.) Relevant texts und artworks (Diagrammatics, Media theory, Performance Studies) will extend the discourse.
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