INSPIRED BY… | Reading Club
Curated by Tuçe Erel

Inspired by… is an event series, a hybrid format derived from reading group and artist talk formats. In each session, an invited artist will choose a specific text or excerpt from a book that was inspirational for the artist’s practice and/or a particular project that the artist will introduce.

The project follows up Tuçe Erel’s Posthumanism Reading Group, organized between 2018-2020. After co-reading and discussing plenty of seminal texts in two years, the club is transforming into a new discussion, presentation and reading program, an online and offline exchange platform in a non-hierarchical and non-institutional infrastructure in the fields of arts, science and technology.

Guest Artist on 11 October 2022
Su Yu Hsin

The fifth event of the Inspired by… will be online via zoom meeting hosted by Art Laboratory Berlin. In this session, Su Yu Hsin shares her artistic practice in relation to two texts she chose.

Su Yu Hsin (b.1989) is an artist and filmmaker currently based in Berlin. She approaches ecology from the point of view of its close relationship with technology. Her artistic practice is strongly research-oriented and involves fieldwork where she investigates the political ecologies of water and reflects on technology and the critical infrastructure in which the human and non-human converge. Her analytical and hydropoetic storytelling focuses on map-making, operational photography, and the technical production of geographical knowledge. Her film and video installations are exhibited worldwide in museums and International Art Biennials: the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Taipei Biennial 2020, ZKM Karlsruhe, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, among others. Recently she has her solo exhibition Wet Mechanics of Seeing at Kunsthalle Winterthur.

Structure of Meetings
Invited artists select the text to read collectively and discuss the artists’ selected artwork and research ( 90 min.)

Time
Reading club will start on Tue, 22 March 2022, 8 pm CET, taking place every 6 weeks (altering with the Colloquium Club).
Reading Club sessions in 2022 (Tuesdays): 22 March, 3 May, 28 June, 30 August, 11 October, 22 November, 6 December (closing event of IN PROGRESS and INSPIRED BY)

Space
Altering: online and on-site @ ALB Wedding
(no livestream and recording)