Hana Miletić, Softwares (Precarious Pavillion), curtains with Jacquard-woven, reprogrammed textile (white polyester and grey cotton), variable dimensions, 2019.
Terrarium Sint-Lukas Brussel
2.10.19-25.11.19
#1 | Emiliano Battista
25 October 2019
On Artists’ books and research.
Emiliano Battista works as a translator, bookmaker, and author. He has written about a wide range of figures in contemporary art (Sophie Whettnall, Paul Sietsema, Dora García, Ana Torfs, Aglaia Konrad, Mette Edvardsen, Henri Jacobs, etc.), as well as about the relationship between art and theory, and the way that relationship unfolds in the proliferation of printed matter in the art world. He has worked alongside artists in bookmaking projects: Sophie Whettnall (at) Work (Mercatorfonds/Yale UP, 2019); Segunda Vez (Torpedo Press, 2018), the fruit of a long research project with Dora García about the work of Oscar Masotta, a multifaceted Argentinian figure who was responsible, among other things, for introducing the work of Jacques Lacan to Spanish readers; Aglaia Konrad from A to K (Koenig, 2016); Daan van Golden Photo Book(s) (2014). In 2015, he conceived, in partnership with the platform theTomorrow, a project for the 56th edition of the Venice Art Biennale entitled Figures of Capital, a program of screenings, talks and interventions whose guests included Jacques Rancière, Alexander Kluge, John Akomfrah and others.
#2 | Yann Chateigné
8 November 2019
On psychopolitics and curating.
Yann Chateigné is a writer, curator, and professor at the Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD–Genève). He previously served as dean of Visual Arts at HEAD – Genève and chief curator at CAPC in Bordeaux. Previous projects include Bringing Something Back, Bergen Kunsthall (2018), Seismology, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013) and IAO. Psychedelic Explorations in France, 1968–∞, CAPC (2008). His writings appeared in Artforum, Frieze, Kaleidoscope, Mousse and Spike. He coedited The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict (Sternberg Press, 2016).
#3 | Raimundas Malasauskas
29 November 2019
#4 | Research Seminar "driesdepoorter.xyz"
18 February 2020
Organised by the Research Unit Intermedia and the cluster Mediated Environments
Dries Depoorter is a Belgium artist that handles themes as privacy, artificial intelligence, surveillance & social media. Depoorter creates interactive installations, apps, games.
His latest project is named: Die With Me, the chatroom app you can only use when your phone has less than 5% battery.
Depoorter studied electronics for six years before making the switch to art school.
Depoorter exhibited internationally recently at the Barbican, MUTEK Festival, Art Basel, Bozar, Para Site Hong Kong, Mozilla The Glass Room San Francisco, HEK, IDFA Doclab, Mundaneum, FOMU, Ars Electronica, Athens Digital Art Festival, Art Soutterain, STRP festival, Heidelberger Kunstverein.
#5 | Pieter Vermeulen - Geannuleerd
27 March 2020
Pieter Vermeulen is an associate professor of American and Comparative Literature at the University of Leuven. He is the author of Romanticism After the Holocaust (Bloomsbury, 2010) and Contemporary Literature and the End of the Novel: Creature, Affect, Form (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and Literature and the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2020). His current writing project investigates the relation between the “Americanization” of world literature and the notion of world literary value.
#6 | Renée Turner - Geannuleerd
20 May 2020
Weaving, Knots, and Other Entanglements
Histories are woven, knotted, and impossible to disentangle. This is especially true when working through the recent past with linked threads to the present. By what merit is something deemed cultural heritage, archivable, or not? With any judgment, the present casts its dice towards an imagined future, waging a bet on stakes unknown. In this talk, I will discuss my project, The Warp and Weft of Memory, an online narrative archive exploring the closet of Dutch artist Gisèle d'Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht. Having passed away in 2013 at the age of one hundred, the traces of her figure can still be sensed through the shape of her clothes, and the range of garments illustrates her fascination with travel, textiles, and her life as an artist. Moving through her clothing, my notes, and Gisèle's photographic archive, I will reflect on my own working process, the epistemology of the closet, taxonomical fervour, and the complexity of entangled histories.
Renée Turner is an artist whose practice engages with digital narratives, archives, and forms of interdisciplinary and collaborative inquiry. Whether working on her own or with others, her research is guided by feminist perspectives, a sense of the embodied, and tenuously plotted connections. Next to her work as an artist and writer, she is a Senior Research Lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy and the Piet Zwart Institute, where she continually seeks critical and committed approaches to pedagogy.
Following the talk by Renée there will be two short reports by members of our cluster deep histories fragile memories. Alexandra Crouwers will report on her two month research stay at Residency Unlimited, New York, and Wendy Morris will report on the Hortus+Herbarium phase of her research project Nothing of Importance Occurred: Recuperating a Herbal for a 17th century Midwife at the Cape.
The Terrarium Talks offer a diverse view of what having an artist’s practice means today. Our guests talk about one or more artistic projects after which the public is invited to join a discussion.