radical⇌matter: sticky cohesions, strange skins, intimate portals
Art & Science and Angewandte Interdiscplinary Lab
The radical⇌matter
symposium will take place in the context with the exhibition of the same name at AIL - Angewandte Innovation Lab, where thirty
international artistic positions will be presented. As with the exhibition the symposium explores the frontiers of materiality
in art, science, and philosophy. This two-day event assembles eminent artists and scholars to critically examine and redefine
conventional understandings of matter. It aims to explore new perspectives and insights into the nature of matter, along with
its philosophical, political, and scientific implications.
The
event is free of charge and will be held exclusively in English.
Find the complete program and the list of participants
here:
www.radicalmatter.art/events/2024-symposium
Programme
Friday 29 January
09.00 - 10.00
Reception
Coffee, Tea and Biscuits
10.00 - 10.30 Ján Mančuška – Incomplete Movement
Introduction
to FJK3 and the current exhibition by Fiona Liewehr
10.30 - 11.50 Welcome and Opening
Alexander
Damianisch and Martin Reinhart
Snakes and Ladders (and a few octopuses, crustaceans…)
Keynote by Johnny Golding
12.00- 12.45 Becoming Octopus Meditation
Maggie Roberts
12.45 -13.45
Lunch Break
13.45 -15.30 Intimate Portals (Non)human communication(s)
Afternoon Session
Planetary Skins. On the sensual entanglements between digital
and corporeal presences
Impulse Lecture by Gerald Nestler
A panel discussion with Noor Stenfert Kroese, Gerald
Nestler, Dunia Sahir, Shira Wachsmann and John Wild
chaired by Julia Wolf
15.30 -15.45 Coffee
break
15.45 - 16.30 The Lounging Symposium
Harold Offeh
A short performance lecture
whilst in reclining or lounging pose. The lecture explores the history, cultural context, power dynamics and politics of this
pose.
16.30 - 18.15 Latitude Longitude: The Sensuous Beauty of Climate Care
Evening Session
Climate beauty: the art of reimagining the future
Impulse Lecture
by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein
Orbital Bloom
Impulse Lecture by Shira Wachsmann
A panel discussion
with Jonathan Boyd, Johnny Golding, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Shira Wachsmann and Marlies Wirth
chaired by Eric Prem.
Saturday 27 January
10.00 - 10.30 Reception
Coffee, Tea and Biscuits
10.30 - 12.00 Strange Skins: when materialism is no longer enough
Morning Session with an introduction by Tanja Traxler
The Matter of Matter – a physical point of view
Impulse Lecture by Philipp Haslinger
The Book of Clouds: notes on weather, mood, vibe
Impulse Lecture by
Sonia Bernac
12.00 -12.15 Coffee break
12.15 - 13.30 Strange Skins
Introduction and moderation by Johnny Golding
The Gravity of Ghosts
Impulse Lecture by Tanja Traxler
An Algerian Technoritual
Impulse Lecture by Yasmine Boudiaf
Residual Materialism: Mapping Silicon
Valley’s Toxic Legacy
Impulse Lecture by Manu Luksch
13.30 - 14.30 Lunchbreak
14.30
- 15.15 Grasping the Liquid
Performance by Jannis Neumann
Comparative examinations reveal
analogies between the gelation process, the study of human genetics, and the impact of essentialist biases on scientific research.
15.15 - 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 - 17.00 Sticky Cohesions
A little
Afternoon Magic with all Artists and Speakers
17.10 - 18.00 Breaking Babble
A Sonic Lecture
by Tonica Hunter
a failing of consonance.
a quest for an unknown.
a nonsense as resistance.
after 18.00 Drink Dance Watch Play
And everything else that matters…
