IN PROGRESS… | Colloquium
Research in Art, Science and Humanities
Curated by Regine Rapp

The Colloquium addresses an international interdisciplinary research audience to present and discuss past, present or future projects by artists and scholars, curators or editors from the fields of art, science and the humanities. The topics could refer to an art project, a book, text or chapter, a research or exhibition project, a lab experiment, a lecture series, a conference concept or other.
The presentations and exchange will focus on the work-in-progress. Methodological approaches - theoretical or practical - are also of great interest here. While researching, we often tend to shift between practical inquiry and theoretical research, browsing various disciplines. Following the original meaning of colloquium as “speaking together”, we want to provide a platform for exchange and embrace various kinds of work processes which are often not seen or talked about.

Speakers on 7 June Session

Daniela Silvestrin | Von Antennenwäldern und Wellenozeanen

Daniela Silvestrin is a curator, cultural researcher, and organiser-facilitator with a particular interest in practices that critically explore and question physical, ethical, and social boundaries and paradigms from an artistic perspective. Her work and research focus on the potential of speculative and disruptive creative practices at the intersection of art, society and techno-sciences, with the aim to envision sustainable futures and produce new forms of experimental knowledge.

In the Colloquium she will tell us about her ongoing project Von Antennenwäldern und Wellenozeanen. (https://antennenozeane.de/)

Susanne Schmitt | Haptic Hortus

Susanne Schmitt is a sociocultural anthropologist and sensory ethnographer, interdisciplinary artist, and facilitator. Her work focusses on creative collaborations within and beyond the label of “art meets science”, multispecies worlding, and the aesthetic dimensions of the workplace and sites of knowledge production like Museums of Natural History, aquariums, historical textile and fashion collections or Botanical Gardens. Her work includes choreographic audiowalks for Natural History Museums across the globe (“How to Not be A Stuffed Animal. Moving Museums of Natural History through Multispecies Choreogaphy”, with Laurie Young), broken cocktails for broken worlds (“Barfly, Danish National Gallery and other sites, with Kat Petroschkat), and ethnographic writing on workplace atmospheres and multispecies encounters. She is currently a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam.

In the Colloquium she will present her current work-in-progress Haptic Hortus, an installation on touch, which accompanies anthropologist and gardeners and botanists at the FU Berlin and the Botanical Gardens.

This event is on-site only @ ALB, Prinzeneallee 34, 13359 Berlin!
We would like you to bring a Rapid test of the same day, thank you!

Structure of Meetings
2 presentations per session and a plenum conversation (altogether 90 min.)

Time
First meeting: Tue, 1 March 2022, 8 pm CET,
Every 6 weeks (altering with the Reading Club).
Colloquium sessions in 2022 (Tuesdays): 1 March, 12 April, 7 June, 12 July, 20 Sep, 1 Nov, 6 Dec.