September 15, 2011 8 p.m.
The Holy Spirit
Performance
Jimmie Durham, Artist
September 16, 2011, 7 p.m.
Groundless in the Museum: Anarchism and the Living Work of Art
Lecture (English)
Luis Jacob, Artist
September 17, 2011, 4 p.m.
Curatorial tour (German)
Anselm Franke, Curator
October 1, 2011, 6 p.m.– 1 a.m.
Lange Nacht der Museen
Art information
November 14, 2011, 6 p.m.
Nervous Magic Lantern Performance
Ken and Flo Jacobs, Filmmakers
November 16, 2011, 7 p.m.
Curatorial tour (English)
Anselm Franke, Curator
December 13 and 14, 2011 6 to 9 p.m. Modernity's
Looking Glasses. Exchanging Perspectives on Animism
Symposium (English and German)
The symposium Exchanging Perspectives brings together six speakers whose contributions address the potential implicit in the concept of animism to open up new perspectives for an analysis of the present and possibilities for historiography. Discussing the issue from a variety of angles, they seek to define where we stand: if animism—as an image of what runs counter to dualist rationality—marked crucial front lines of modernity, how have these lines shifted over the course of the twentieth century, and where are they becoming productive today?
December 13, 2011, 6 to 9 p.m. (English)
Introduction
Anselm Franke, Curator and Author, Berlin
Spaces of Wonder (English)
Edwin Carels,
The Life of Things (English)
Spyros Papapetros, Professor, History and Theory of Architecture, Princeton University school of Architecture
Liquid Crystal Life (English)
Esther Leslie, Professor in Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck University, London
December 14, 2011, 6 to 9 p.m.
Das zweite Leben der Dinge (German)
Diedrich Diederichsen, Professor, Theory, Practice and Communication of Contemporary Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Conversation between Angela Melitopoulos, Artist, Berlin (German) and Elisabeth von Samsonow, Artist and Professor, Philosophical and Historic Anthropology of Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Discussion with all participants, moderated by Anselm Franke
January 19, 2012, 7 p.m.
Curatorial tour (German)
Anselm Franke, Curator
Edwin Carels, Curator, Film and Media, MuHKA, Antwerp