{"id":27615,"date":"2021-02-26T13:36:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T12:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?post_type=event&#038;p=27615"},"modified":"2025-04-02T17:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:34:50","slug":"magical-cohabitations-live-online-event","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/event\/magical-cohabitations-live-online-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Magical Cohabitations &#8211; Live Online Event"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27613,"template":"","categories":[636,634,649,792,648,646,657],"class_list":["post-27615","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","category-discourse","category-exhibition","category-performance-en","category-radio-podcast-en","category-reading","category-screening","category-workshop"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Leerraum-Container","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"Even today, in our seemingly connected and in many ways scientifically explicable world, we are faced with the question of how uncertainties define us \u2013 as well as our relations with other creatures and forces that cohabit this world with us. In current times of insecurities, plots and treason, our world becomes a place in which future possibilities are still unevenly distributed. New and old forms of power arise that lure us into a familiar \u00bbhorror,\u00ab banishing symbiosis and mutual care as frightening scenarios into a distant realm. But what could be the counternarratives and practices that help us embrace these uncertainties without fear and violence?\r\n\r\nInstead of separating rationality with its \u00bbopaque\u00ab functioning technologies and non-rationality with its \u00bbquestionable\u00ab magical practices \u2013 which can both fuel reactionary conspiracies but also function as emancipatory practice, we would like to explore the porous boundaries between those realms.\r\n\r\nUsing nonhuman knowledge, planetary, ancestral, and witchcraft practices, \u00bbMagical Cohabitations\u00ab will explore the miraculous \u2013 also of today\u2019s science epistemology \u2013 as positive micropractices for change and new\/old forms for gaining knowledge.\r\n\r\nCombining the launch of the upcoming second volume of<em> Solitude Journal <\/em>titled \u00bbOn the Occult and the Supernatural,\u00ab inputs by the Non\/Post-Human <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/themencluster\/ecosystem-of-knowledge\/\">Ecosystems of Knowledge<\/a>-Working Group**, contributions by Web Residents, and early looks at works of current Akademie fellows, we aim to challenge the boundaries of contemporary science, glimpse into enchanted worlds, and excavate long-lost echoes in a series of readings, discussions, workshops, performances, screenings, divinatory prophecies, and radio podcasts.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nConcept and text by Aouefa Amoussouvi, Caroline Meyer-J\u00fcrshof, Denise Sumi &amp; Sophie-Charlotte Thieroff"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_spacer","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":12,"space_height":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_spacer","bgcolor":"has-bg-yellow","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":2,"space_height":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Leerraum-Container","bgcolor":"has-bg-yellow","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"With contributions by Lark Alder aka Lark VCR, Aouefa Amoussouvi**, Fanti Baum, C\u00e9line Baumann**, Olivia Berkowicz, Johanna Bruckner, Sasha Engelmann**, Shirin Fahimi, Marianna Feher, Krzysztof Gutfra\u0144ski, Johanna Hedva, Michael Kleine, Mara-Johanna K\u00f6lmel, Romuald Kr\u0119\u017cel**, Roman Lemberg, Marie-Eve Levasseur, Nkhensani Mkhari, Sarvenaz Mostofey, Christ Mukenge and Lydia Schellhammer, Hemal Naik**, Jan Nikolai Nelles, Marina Valle Noronha, R\u00f3sa \u00d3marsd\u00f3ttir, H\u00e1kon P\u00e1lsson, Sara Pereira, Chrismaria Pfeifer**, Elisabeth Rafstedt, Sol Sarratea, Viktorija \u0160iaulyt\u0117, Miriam Simun, \u0160kart collective, Danae Tapia, Natasha Tontey, and Kuzey Topuz."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_spacer","bgcolor":"has-bg-yellow","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":2,"space_height":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_spacer","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"has-bg-red","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":2,"space_height":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Auflistung","bgcolor":"has-bg-red","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/event\/811736\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue-extended\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">To the live stream on Vimeo<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h2>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here you can follow the event live without registration: <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/event\/811736\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/event\/811736<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You can comment via this Signal Group: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/37IRwai\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/37IRwai<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Please note that Signal is used exclusively during the event and serves as a means of participation. Zoom links for workshops will be provided after registration.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you have problems accessing Signal or Vimeo, please write to us at: <a href=\"mailto:host@akademie-solitude.de\">host@akademie-solitude.de<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Accompanying media<\/h2>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/project\/online-publications\/\">Solitude Journal 2 \u2013 <em>On the Occult and the Supernatural<\/em><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The journal will be launched on 18 March<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theinstituteforendoticresearch.org\/wp\/projects-current\/tier-cast\/\"><em>Castle of Crossed Destinies<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This episode is part of a three-part series created in collaboration with TIER - The Institute of Endotic Research. Listen to the three episodes in full at:\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theinstituteforendoticresearch.org\/wp\/projects-current\/tier-cast\/\">http:\/\/theinstituteforendoticresearch.org\/wp\/projects-current\/tier-cast\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Molecular Minds \/ Monstrous Matters\">Molecular Minds \/ Monstrous Matters<\/a> - An exhibition by Digital Solitude<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_spacer","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"has-bg-red","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":2,"space_height":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Leerraum-Container","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":12,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue-extended\">Program<\/span> <span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">Magical Cohabitations<\/span><\/h2>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_rows","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Leerraum-Container","bgcolor":"","rows_el":[{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"DAY 1:","row_el_content_right":"<h3><\/h3>\r\n<h3>Day 1: Thursday, March 18<\/h3>"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"6 \u2013 6.30 pm","row_el_content_right":"Welcome by Elke aus dem Moore and introduction by\u00a0Aouefa Amoussouvi, Caroline Meyer-J\u00fcrshof, Denise Helene Sumi and Sophie-Charlotte Thieroff"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"18.30 \u2013 19.00 Uhr","row_el_content_right":"<pre><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><em>On the Occult and the Supernatural<\/em><\/span>\r\n<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Launch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/project\/solitude-journal-en\/\">Solitude Journal 2<\/a><\/span>\r\n<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Live screening <\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With an introduction by Krzysztof Gutfra\u0144ski and Denise Helene Sumi, and\r\ncontributions by Kuzey Topuz, Michael Kleine, und Roman Lemberg, Sarvenaz\r\nMostofey, Elisabeth Rafstedt, and Johanna Hedva<\/span><\/span>\r\n<\/pre>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00bbYou can call it magical, spiritual, wisdom of the ancestors, if you like, but I would call this knowledge. Knowledge has many different forms.\u00ab<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A safe oasis of official, sanctioned knowledge apparently does not get us closer to understanding where and what we are now. As in the past, islands and syncretic connections germinated on the margins of licensed knowledge. Occultism and the exploration of supernatural phenomena are the examples here, often seen as alternative methods of getting out of the crisis or ahead of the situation.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With all its labyrinths and secrets, the hermetic tradition can nurture new directions. The occult and the supernatural give us cues both for practices leading to sublimation to the greater good, and at the same time fueling reactionary conspiracies. Where lies the magic and why is it important today? What does it mean in times of pandemic? With this upcoming issue of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solitude Journal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we address artistic practices that look at the hermetic tradition and alternative communication systems inspiring change. We present a variety of artistic positions, where artistic research borders with practical magic.<\/span>"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"7 \u2013 7.15 pm","row_el_content_right":"<pre><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><em>Posthuman Exercise #6 \u00bbcompost humans\u00ab<\/em><\/span>\r\n<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guided Meditation by Chrismaria Pfeifer (+ Exchange via Signal)<\/span>\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Posthuman Exercises are a series of seven meditations designed and performed by Chrismaria Pfeifer. They guide the meditators beyond human nature, which is invited by other natures to join them. The exercises are minimalist and based on mental and sensory elements that incorporate storytelling and silence. The duration is between five and six minutes and no special preparation is required. To do the exercise, find a place where you can sit and\/or stretch out and relax without being disturbed. Take a few moments before and after meditation.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00bbIf you can't extend yourself for Posthuman Exercise #6, sit somewhere comfortable. Use the speakers of your computer or smartphone and adjust the volume so that it is pleasing to your ears. Stay clear of headphones. Before we begin, I will briefly say hello to the participants.\u00ab<\/span>"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"7.15 \u2013 7.30 pm","row_el_content_right":"Break"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"7.30 \u20138.30 pm","row_el_content_right":"<pre><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><em>Intentionality, Prophecy and Ancestry\r\n<\/em>With Web Residents by Solitude\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With contributions by Lark Alder a.k.a. Lark VCR and Sol Sarratea, Marie-Eve\r\nLevasseur, Shirin Fahimi, Danae Tapia, and Nkhensani Mkhari, followed by a\r\n30-minute talk moderated by Denise Helene Sumi (with Q&amp;A via Signal)<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The contribution <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intentionality, Prophecy and Ancestry <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from the<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Digital Solitude<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> program presents works from the last two Web Residency calls \u00bbMunu Maxims\u00ab and \u00bbPost Doom.\u00ab While \u00bbMuntu Maxims\u00ab intended to bring together different areas of spirituality from cultures all over the world, and suggest fresh ways of \u00bbrelating to\u00ab things and one another ; \u00bbPost-Doom\u00ab asked to think of doom as a beginning rather than an end.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The presented projects all use applied-artistic digital practices and new media technologies \u2013 algorithms have been coded, 3D files and virtual online spaces have been generated \u2013 to offer connections with long-forgotten methods of prediction, various new and old rituals, and alternative methods for narration, prophecy, and knowledge-making. A bot system is used to generate cyclical autopoietic associative spaces with a divinatory character; a fictional character who represents female prophets can be animated; global users can share a digital \u00bbpower object\u00ab or visit, in the virtual space, a moon altar or a speculative brewery to honor women who brew for their kin.\u00a0 <\/span>"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"DAY 2:","row_el_content_right":"<h3><\/h3>\r\n<h3><strong>Day 2: Friday, March 19<\/strong><\/h3>"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"11 am \u2013 2 pm","row_el_content_right":"<pre><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><em>Thinking of matter and nonlinear timelines in the networked\u00a0<\/em><em>domestic spaces\r\n<\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A shared learning experience with Viktorija \u0160iaulyt\u0117 and Marina Valle Noronha,\r\ninvolving reflections on texts, short interjections by guests, as well as\r\nhands-on exercises and discussions in smaller groups.<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">(<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Registration required by March 12<\/span>: <a href=\"mailto:register@akademie-solitude.de\">register@akademie-solitude.de<\/a>)<\/span><\/pre>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this workshop, we will look for connections between responsive environments and machinic time, and ways to circumvent their logic. Viktorija \u0160iaulyt\u0117 will share findings in the history of media homes, while Marina Valle Noronha will introduce non-cartesian approaches to objects and their temporality. Reflections and shared practical learning \u00bbto look to the material landscape for evidence of temporal and spatial entanglements\u00ab (Shannon Mattern) is also meant to help us approach our current online life. The workshop includes short readings, discussions, as well as practical exercises and offline reflection time.<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"4 \u2013 4.15 pm\r\n","row_el_content_right":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome for the day<\/span>"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"4.15 \u2013 5 pm","row_el_content_right":"<pre><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><em>New Awareness of Self and Nature<\/em><\/span>\r\n<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Outdoor guided tour with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ab.mpg.de\/person\/98195\/2736\">Hemal Naik<\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(+ Exchange via Signal)<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our busy everyday lives, we constantly make plans for today or get busy thinking about yesterday and tomorrow. With such agitated minds, we do not notice the million other things that happen all around us. In this outdoor (audio) guided tour, we will take a moment to pause, drink a cup of tea, and let our thoughts go outward while watching the sky, birds, trees, flowers, insects, or stones. Awareness of self will come with the practice of observation, and acceptance comes with a sense of relationship. The aim of the event is to practice the art of active listening and building intimacy with the non-human. Together, we will try to rethink the idea of self and nature. This will be a trial session, and participants will be encouraged to continue the practice on their own.<\/span>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Preparation:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Three <\/span>short voice notes containing instructions will be given online via Vimeo and the signal group on the day of the event. <span class=\"s1\">Participants <\/span>willing to go outdoors should join the signal group, prepare tea\/coffee to take <span class=\"s1\">out, and be ready to leave at 4:15. Participants choosing to stay indoors can use either signal or Vimeo. Find a cozy spot at home with a view outside and feel free to prepare a tea while listening to me or keep one ready.<\/span><\/p>"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"17.00 \u2013 18.00 Uhr","row_el_content_right":"<pre><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><em>Castle of Crossed Destinies\r\n<\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sonic encounter by Sasha Engelmann, Olivia Berkowicz, and Aouefa\r\nAmoussouvi, Sound Design by Sara Pereira<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\r\n<pre><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This episode is part of a three-part series made in collaboration with TIER \u2013\r\nThe Institute of Endotic Research. Listen to the three full-length episodes at<\/span>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theinstituteforendoticresearch.org\/wp\/projects-current\/tier-cast\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> http:\/\/theinstituteforendoticresearch.org\/wp\/projects-current\/tier-cast\/<\/span><\/a><\/span>\r\n<\/pre>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This sonic project departs from the writer Italo Calvino\u2019s book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Castle of Crossed Destinies<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1973). In the tale, a group of travelers meet each other in a tavern in the woods. Afflicted by a strange predicament that affects their capacity to speak, they turn to a stack of tarot cards to tell stories about one another. From a secluded room in Schloss Solitude, Amoussouvi, Berkowicz, and Engelmann extend the invitation of Calvino\u2019s story to reflect upon the use of divinatory tools, creative props, and experimental techniques for collective knowledge production. Situated in pandemic times, the conversation conjures vocabularies, glossaries, and sounds. Moving in a circular motion, three fellow travelers explore stories within stories within stories.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This sonic encounter, the second in the series, focuses on Engelmann\u2019s project <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Open Weather,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> earth sensing, radio technologies, the histories of feminist divination practices as well as personal experiences and transgenerational memories and migrations.<\/span>"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"6 \u2013 6.30 pm","row_el_content_right":"Break"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"6.30 \u2013 7 pm","row_el_content_right":"<pre><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><em>forza femme || das Atelier als Kraftraum\r\nGlimpses into an installation in the making<\/em>\r\nBy Fanti Baum<\/span><\/pre>\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ff. \u2013 forza femme<\/span><\/i>\r\n\r\n<b>f<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> like force. The studio is the Grande Boucle F\u00e9mine Internationale. Because just the gym is not enough. <\/span><b><i>forza femme <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shapes the studio as a weight room, opens a theater of sweat, and founds a stomping ground for the idle. <\/span><b><i>ff.<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> opens a space in which it is always up for negotiation what force is in the first place [<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">energeia\/dynamis, virtus, vis, impetus, forza<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">] forza femme \u2013 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">resistance, speed power, thinking power, labor power, imagination power, physical strength, persuasive power \u2013 dark forces<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and knows only one activity: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">practicing<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rehearsing <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">training<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><b><i>forza femme <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">proves the dictum of the artist: his*her inability. That\u2019s how the weight room presents itself between muscle mass and iron bars as a place for testing, experimenting, and imagining <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how the world might be otherwise<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><b><i>ff. <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">moves bodies into the rhythms of contemporary life and at the same time listens to the demands of forms to form what is beyond any form \u2013 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00bbI AM IN TRAINING \u2013 DON\u2019T KISS ME\u00ab.<\/span><\/i>"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":" 7 \u2013 7.15 pm","row_el_content_right":"<pre><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><em>Pool Malebo: Solitude Station\r\n<\/em><em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A speculative fiction, experimental video<\/span><\/i>\r\n<\/em>By Christ Mukenge und Lydia Schellhammer<\/span><\/pre>\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pool Malebo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> explores the fictional potential in current representations of foreignness through the strategic auto-exoticization of the duo MUKENGE\/SCHELLHAMMER themselves. It creates opposing alienations and dream images by reordering and reinterpreting stereotypical images of the exotic. The placement of contemporary images and narratives within fantastical contexts and speculative scenarios illuminates the act of representing the other as a process of exoticization that constructs meaning and reality. The project takes place in different stations and stages between Kinshasa and Europe. For the start of its journey at Akademie Schloss Solitude, it aims to transgress the two-dimensional space of painting by combining it with experimental video, performance, 3D animation, and painting. <\/span>"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"Afterwards","row_el_content_right":"<pre><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Q&amp;A moderated by Aouefa Amoussouvi and Sophie-Charlotte Thieroff<\/span>\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<pre><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">DJ-Set by <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dario_ttw\">Dario (TTW)<\/a><\/span><\/pre>"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"DAY 3:","row_el_content_right":"<h3><\/h3>\r\n<h3><strong>Day 3: Saturday, March 20<\/strong><\/h3>"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"11 am \u2013 1 pm","row_el_content_right":"<pre><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><em>The Breath of the World\r\n<\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reading group and exercise with C\u00e9line Baumann and Romuald Kr\u0119\u017cel.\r\nWith one chapter from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Life of Plants<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Emanuele Coccia<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">(<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Registration required by March 12<\/span>: <a href=\"mailto:register@akademie-solitude.de\">register@akademie-solitude.de<\/a>)<\/span><\/pre>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Breathing was an essential topic in the year 2020, from the acute respiratory symptoms caused by Covid-19 to the last words of George Floyd \u00bbI can\u2019t breathe.\u00ab In this reading group, we approach different aspects of the notion of breathing from the perspective of the architects of our own atmosphere: land plants. By revisiting <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Life of Plants<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Emanuele Coccia (2018) we will aim to make conspicuous the ontological foundation of the world, namely the respiratory function of the plant kingdom. Topics discussed will include breathing, immersion, mixture, atmosphere, climate, hyperobjects, nonhumans, ecological crisis, and the Anthropocene.<\/span>"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"2 pm","row_el_content_right":"Welcome for the day"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"2 \u2013 2.45 pm","row_el_content_right":"<pre><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><em>Molecular Minds \/\/ Monstrous Matters\r\n<\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Desktop exhibition tour with curator Mara-Johanna K\u00f6lmel and the artists\r\nJohanna Bruckner, Jan Nikolai Nelles, Miriam Simun, and Natasha Tontey<\/span>\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The artists of Molecular Minds \/\/ Monstrous Matters probe the power of a collective intelligence that reaches from the enhanced to the monstrous, the ancestral to the futurist, the molecular to the planetary, and from the human to the non-human. With creativity and visionary fuel, they unlock the digital realm as a space that comes with response-ability \u2013 the ability to respond to its architectures of power and to think with, to care for those it chooses to forget, erase, and leave behind.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/event\/online-ausstellung-molecular-minds-monstrous-matters\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More information<\/span><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/webresidencies.akademie-solitude.de\/mmmm\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visit the exhibition<\/span><\/a>"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"2.45 \u2013 3 pm","row_el_content_right":"Break"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"3 \u2013 3.30 pm","row_el_content_right":"<pre><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><em>Collaborative Contaminations\r\n<\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Video presentation of a sound and installation performance by R\u00f3sa\r\n\u00d3marsd\u00f3ttir (with H\u00e1kon P\u00e1lsson)<\/span>\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00bbContaminated diversity is collaborative adaptation to human-disturbed ecosystems.\u00ab Anna Tsing, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mushroom at the End of the World<\/span><\/i>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How is the behavior of water altered by different contaminations? How does water transform through its emergence with other substances, sound waves, and light? What collaborations take place through these contaminations? <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collaborative Contaminations<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a video documentation of a performance installation. In this work, R\u00f3sa \u00d3marsd\u00f3ttir explores various transformations that occur through the encounter of water and different materials. Causality, symbiosis, and natural processes play a leading role and are emphasized visually and sonically. The behavior of water through its encounters and contaminations changes throughout the installation performance, creating uncanny and otherworldly landscapes.<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">R\u00f3sa \u00d3marsd\u00f3ttir\u2019s fellowship is funded by the TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the support of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM), the special program \u00bbNEUSTART KULTUR\u00ab (BKM) and the State Capital of Stuttgart.<\/span>"},{"row_el_content_collapsible":false,"row_el_content_collapsible_init_state":true,"row_el_content_headline":"","row_el_content_left":"3.30 \u2013 4.30 pm","row_el_content_right":"<pre><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><em>Tentative Transmits: The Radio as G\/Host in the \u00bbformer East\u00ab\r\n<\/em>Listening Session by Olivia Berkowicz and Marianna Feher<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Guests: \u0160kart collective<\/span>\r\n<\/pre>\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tentative Transmits: The Radio as G\/Host in the \u00bbformer East\u00ab<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a discursive radio platform and artistic research project that investigates current and archival findings on post-socialist, transnational, and multicultural phenomena.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The listening session will host S\u030ckart collective, who will speak about their practice in relation to choirs, self-organization and radical amateurism. The conversation will be entwined with choral pieces from their project Horke\u0161kart, formed in 2000.<\/span>"}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_spacer","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Auflistung","bgcolor":"has-bg-grey","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":12,"space_height":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Leerraum-Container","bgcolor":"has-bg-grey","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":12,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<p class=\"is-size-6\"><strong>Notes on video and photo recordings during the livestream<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"is-size-6\">As part of the online event Magical Cohabitations from March 18 to 20, 2021, image recordings will be made during the livestream. Below we inform you about the nature and purposes of the image recordings, the legal basis and your rights.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"is-size-6\">Data protection officer:\r\nRA Thomas Lang\r\nSpecialist attorney for labor law &amp; certified data protection officer\r\nUpper Kirchhaldenweg 9 b\r\n70195 Stuttgart\r\nTelephone: 0711 - 12 57 85 49\r\nE-mail: <a href=\"mailto:office@datenschutzadvokat.de\">office@datenschutzadvokat.de<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"is-size-6\">The image recordings are used for the following purposes: Provision of the recordings for the participants in the livestream.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"is-size-6\">Legal basis of the recordings: Legitimate interests in the use of the recordings for the aforementioned purposes pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f., 85 DSGVO in conjunction with \u00a7\u00a7 22, 23 KUG.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"is-size-6\">Retention period of the image recordings: The image recordings will be retained for as long as is necessary for the aforementioned purposes. The image recordings can be stored internally for an unlimited period, e.g. to secure copyright legal claims by providing evidence of original recordings and furthermore for reasons of contemporary historical documentation. In the case of publication, the recordings may be published as long as the respective publication media, articles or contributions are publicly accessible.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"is-size-6\">Your rights: you can exercise your right of access or rectification, deletion and restriction of the processing of the photographs and you can complain to the competent supervisory authority. You can object to the processing of photographs and data concerning you at any time. A detailed description of your rights can be found in our privacy policy at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/privacy-policy\/\">www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/privacy-policy\/<\/a>.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_spacer","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"has-bg-grey","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":12,"space_height":""}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/27615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}