Talking Through Weibel
Presented
by The Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures as part of the exhibition ‘Thinking Through Weibel’
Talking
Through Weibel asks a simple, far-reaching question: how do exhibitions and archives teach us – artists, researchers,
and the wider public – how to see, remember, and think?
Taking the current
exhibition Thinking Through Weibel and the Weibel Archive as an opening path, this evening explores art as a learning
system: how exhibitions and collections structure cultural memory, how digitization can widen (and bias) access, and how exhibition-making
can produce embodied, situated knowledge that differs from conventional academic formats.
Looking at Peter Weibel
himself – artist, theorist, institution-builder – and drawing on his extensive, partly digital archive, the evening considers
how large-scale collections can be made meaningfully accessible: through digitization and metadata practices, open interfaces
and display strategies, as well as curatorial and pedagogical frameworks that invite plural forms of learning. The program
begins with a guided tour of the exhibition, continues with a keynote on ‘What is Contemporary Art History?’ and culminates
in a roundtable that considers exhibitions and archives as shared infrastructures of learning. Rather than closing a legacy,
we open questions and methods – testing how playful, critical, and inclusive practices can shape what and how we learn together.
Programme- 17:30 Exhibition tour with Brooklyn
J. Pakathi
- 18:30 Keynote lecture by Boris Čučković Berger
- 19:30
Round table / Discussion: Panelists: Robert Müller, Brooklyn J. Pakathi, Margit Rosen, Charlotte Reuß
Moderation: Denise
H. Sumi
Exhibition
Thinking Through Weibel 
