Longshot – On Artistic Re-Historicizing
LONGSHOT – On artistic re-historicizing
Talks and lectures on artistic research - presented by the Academy of Media Arts (art history with an expanded concept of material), the University of Cologne (Laboratory for Art & Research) and the Society for Artistic Research in Germany (gfkd).
The library talks are dedicated to artistic methods of re-historicizing. Within the bi-weekly lecture and talk series, invited artists, art philosophers, media activists and collectives work with different approaches on the decentralization and de-skilling of hegemonic historiography. In sci-fi and other settings, they communicate with the past and fabulate with potentialities. Our guests move between/with entanglements, enter into intergenerational alliances and uncover silenced, buried practices. Archival images are activated, artistic centers beyond the Eurocentric view are sought out. Experiences of forced migration or poverty are included.
Such de-historicizations queer the structures of normalization and coloniality. Furthermore, they take care of vulnerable learning spaces, for example for thinking about historical knowledge and its processual production, which seeks to distinguish itself from structures of reproduction. In the winter semester 2024/25, the library series will be flanked by a collaborative seminar by Anna Bromley and Lilian Haberer and an associated seminar by Karina Nimmerfall and Leon Filter at University of Cologne.
Concept and organization: Anna Bromley, Lilian Haberer, Karina Nimmerfall, Leon Filter.
Dates: Thursdays, November 7, November 21, December 5, 2024, January 9, January 23 and January 30, 2025
5 p.m., KHM library in the Overstolzenhaus, Rheingasse 8, 50676 Cologne
Due to limited space, early registration for the event is required. Mailing address
Vorträge
Donnerstag, 7. November 2024: Netta Weiser
Radio-Choreography: The Present is Provincial
Netta Weiser is a choreographer, artist, and researcher based in Berlin, working across performance, sound installation, and experimental radio. In 2019, she founded Radio-Choreography, a long-term artistic research project developed in collaboration with choreographers, theorists, sound and radio artists. The project explores the poetics and politics of transforming dance into sound, the relationships between live broadcasting and muted histories, and acts of listening as modes of being together.
Her work has been presented internationally, most recently at the Akademie der Künste Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Onassis Stegi Athens, WDR, Villa Medici Rome, TONSPUR Passage Micro Museum for Sound at the MQ Vienna, Tanznacht Berlin, Tanzmuseum Cologne, Diver Festival for Contemporary Dance Tel Aviv, and Zwerglgarten Pavilion Salzburg, among others. In 2024, the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe presented her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. In addition to her artistic practice, Weiser regularly teaches at the Klangzeitort Institute for New Music and the Universität der Künste in Berlin.
Donnerstag: 21. November 2024: Yevgenia Belorusets
Als die Zeit noch existierte, zusammen mit dem Raum und dem Namen: Ein Gespräch über Dokumentation und Archivierung im Vorfeld des Krieges.
Yevgenia Belorusets ist eine Künstlerin und Schriftstellerin, sie lebt und arbeitet zwischen Berlin und Kyjiw. Ihre Arbeiten bewegen sich an der Schnittstelle von bildender Kunst, Literatur, Journalismus und Aktivismus und stellen eine Verbindung zwischen Dokument und künstlerischer Sprache her.
Ihre künstlerische Arbeiten wurden unter anderem im ukrainischen Pavillon der 56. und 59. Biennale von Venedig gezeigt. Für ihre Arbeit am »Tagebuch aus Kyjiw« erhielt sie 2022 den Schering Stiftung Sonderpreis für Künstlerische Forschung und den Horst-Bingel-Preis für Literatur. Ihr neuestes Buch "Über das moderne Leben der Tiere" (2024) ist dem Bild von Natur und Tieren im Kontext des Krieges und der Transformationsprozesse in der ukrainischen Gesellschaft gewidmet.
Seit dem 24. Februar 2022 dokumentiert sie die Invasion Russlands in die Ukraine.
Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2024: Jessica Ekomane
Computations
Jessica Ekomane is a French-born and Berlin-based electronic musician and sound artist. She creates situations where the sound acts as a transformative element for the space and the audience. Her quadraphonic performances, characterized by their physical affect, seek a cathartic effect through the interplay of psychoacoustics, the perception of rhythmic structures and the interchange of noise and melody. Her ever-changing and immersive sonic landscapes are grounded in questions such as the relationship between individual perception and collective dynamics or the investigation of listening expectations and their societal roots.
Her first LP Multivocal was released in 2019 via Important Records, stemming out of a project for a sleeping event at Ars Electronica, curated by Shu-Lea Chang and Matthew Füller. Since then, her work has been extensively presented in festivals, venues, contemporary art spaces and museums across the world such as Hamburger Bahnhof, Reina Sofia, Kanal Pompidou, Art Basel, Villa Massimo, CTM festival, Cafe OTO, Gedächtniskirche…
Her piece “Manifolds” was released in 2024 as a split LP with Laurel Halo on Portraits GRM / Shelter Press. She was one of the composers chosen as collaborators by Natascha Sadr Haghigian for her installation Ankerzentrum at the German pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2019, alongside Maurice Louca, DJ Marfox, Jako Maron, Tisha Mukarji and Elnaz Seyedi. She was one of the fellows in residence for the Villa Romana Prize 2023 in Florence and received one of the two ZKM Giga-Hertz production prizes that same year. She is a fellow of the Berlin Artistic Research Programme 2024-25.
Weitere Termine:
09.01.2025, Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman
23.01.2025, Alice Rekab
30.01.2025, Tom Holert
