On Materialist Optimism and Generative Nihilism, 21 June 2019 @19:30. Part of a program including concerts by Jogging House and Damian Marhulets. In Hannover, DE at Hafven, Nordstadt.
Hugely grateful to Agrafa Society for their translation of the XF manifesto and their interview with Laboria Cuboniks in Korean and English
Lecture and panel discussion at HKW, Berlin on April 5-6, 2019, in the frame of e-flux’s 10th year anniversary, in partnership with the Harun Farocki Institute and the CCC Research-Based Master of Visual Arts at HEAD – Genève. More details here.
“Towards Post-Anthropocentric Cosmologies”, an interview by Yulia Gromova available here.
Excerpted essay from Para-Platforms: On the Spatial Politics of Right-Wing Populism (eds. M. Miessen & Z. Ritts, Sternberg Press), on Tank Magazine
Participation in the Australian Pavilion “Teatro Della Terra Alienata” for the architecture triennale. Opening 28 February, 2019. Exhibition runs until 1 September 2019.
Lecture on 7 Feb., 2019 – 18:00, at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow, RU. Talk on Platform Cosmology.
Seminar session for Decolonization of Imagination (DI), an international research school, organized by student journal DOXA (and INCO) with the support of Higher School of Economics and Oxford Russia Fund. Moscow, RU 3 Feb-7 Feb., 2019. Talk on Xenofeminist Epistemologies: Materialist Optimism for a Big World
Public session of the study group “Uneasy Alliances: A Discussion on Action, Solidarity and Care” for transmediale 2019 in Berlin (31 Jan.-3 Feb., 2019).
The reader from Public Art Munich 2018, launching at Spike, Berlin. Together with Joanna Warsza (artistic director, co-editor) and Maria Lind. 30 Jan., 2019.
This paper looks at the relation between scientific knowledge and normative pragmatics from the point of view of (mutable) cosmological... More
Although Capitalist Realism is the mode of capture, training and moulding our lives, as the polymath Sylvia Wynter has written,... More
Despite the long-standing ambitions to conceive of humanity from an expansive proportion, the scale of the shared crises we face... More
“Xeno” speaks to the turn away from “what is” toward “what could be”: the (as yet) unknown, the alien—having been... More
Brazilian Portuguese version of “Xenophily and Computational Denaturalization” originally published on e-flux Architecture, 2018, translated as part of Luiza Crosman’s... More
A pocket colour manifesto for a new futuristic feminism. Injustice should not simply be accepted as “the way things are.”... More
In its extreme, unintended deployment, epistemic relativisation has contributed less to the desired multiplication of knowledges, a deeper sea of... More
Ultimately the work of platforms is to expose in at least two directions. But exposure to what, and according to... More
When politics (in both its imaginative and infra/-structural forms) is trapped in stagnation, it’s purchase on futurity is cancelled.[1] This,... More
Diagrammatic writing. The perceptual / navigational consequences of the territory inhabited by humans due to the proliferation of scalar-technology (cultural, legal,... More
A City Curating Reader: Public Art Munich 2018 Eds.: Joanna Warsza and Patricia Reed What is public in public art?... More
Making & Breaking is an online journal published by the Autonomy research chair of Avans University’s Centre of Applied Research for... More
Sat, Dec 2, 2017, 3pm at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin In the frame of Technosphere (2015-19) at Haus... More
For The Future of Demonstration: Vermoegen, a performance and broadcast event on 2 Nov. 2017 in Vienna (Reaktor Studio) –... More
Seminar and Public Forum co-organised with Antonia Majaca and Mohamad Salemy. Seminar on July 16. 2015 (10:00-21:00) at the University... More
Online Class co-taught with Diann Bauer with The New Centre for Research and Practice, May 25-June23, 2015. GUEST(S): Amanda Beech,... More
2013 Inclinations is a monthly speaker series at Or Gallery Berlin, hosting philosophers, artists, curators, and...
2011 Designed for The Labour Of The Multitude? The Political Economy Of Social Creativity Conference at the Warsaw Free/Slow University A poster announces a series of questions, making present the position of listening and inquiry as an invited member of the audience. Engagements to these questions shall proceed through a polyphonous text (forthcoming), based on the series of speeches and debates that play out in the conference, documenting the position of active listening / apprehension, without speaking.
2009 Edition of 250 custom gold-plated pins, Contract (3 X A4 white frames) In response to a invitation for an exhibition dedicated to collectors where no financial exchange was possible, a contract was created (a modified version of Seth Siegelaubs' 1971 contract "The artist's reserved rights transfer and sale agreement"), wherein all financial exchange agreements were replaced with those pertaining to pure belief in the current and future works of the artist. An edition of 250 gold-plated pins were created as a take-away item for potential 'collectors', denoting their virtual agreement with the terms of the contract. The work directly addresses the currency of the artist-personality which is implied in any sale of work, but is never explicitly drawn up within the legal framework.
In response the the Storefront Architecture and Art competition to redesign the White House, I opted to look at the... More
