A soon-to-be-realized initiative that could definitely become a place for transdisciplinary projects connecting arts, culture and society in a community-focused way: https://prozess.be/ PROZESS ist ein in seiner Art einzigartiger Ort in der Stadt Bern und versteht sich als Schnittstelle zwischen Kunst und Gesellschaft. PROZESS ist ein Ort, an dem Kunst produziert, aufgeführt und zeitgleich von…
Month: April 2020
application, object perspectives, perspectives
“Alternativmedizin” als unfreiwillig transdisziplinäre Praxis
v.1.1 Über das was wir tun und wie wir davon sprechen können. Nomen est Omen Dieser Artikel wurde für ein Glossar geschrieben und so beginnt er mit einer Befragung verschiedener Namen für das was wir tun. Alternativmedizin ist ein verbreiteter Begriff. Er verweist zuallererst auf ein Original, auf einen Standard von dem dessen Alternative abweicht.…
concepts, examples, string figures / speculative fabulation
Pigeon Blog (SF)
“… what is brought into existence are the relations by which– pigeons transform men into talented pigeon fanciers and by whichthe fanciers transform the pigeons into reliable racing pigeons.”(Vinciane Despret quoted in Haraway) The art activism project called “Pigeon-Blog” was a project by artist-researcher Beatriz da Costa with her students Cina Hazegh and Kevin Ponto…
boundary object, concepts, examples, figures, string figures / speculative fabulation, third space
an unhappy archive
http://www.editionfink.ch/php/katalog/detail.php?buchid=222&parentid=0&navid=2 «An Unhappy Archive» versammelt künstlerische und aktivistische Arbeiten wie Fotografien, Videos, Bücher, Zeichnungen und Malerei, die die gesellschaftlichen Normen von «happiness» infrage stellen. Der Begriff geht auf die Theoretikerin Sara Ahmed zurück, die «unglückliche Archive» als ein kollektives, feministisch-queeres und antirassistisches Projekt beschreibt. Dieses will nicht nur Gesellschaftskritik und Widerständigkeit voranbringen, sondern auch das…
examples
forensic architecture
collective as an example of transdisciplinary work – brackground of members from various fields – output on different levels but always discovering human rights violations with artistic strategies: https://forensic-architecture.org/ (following text copied from homepage:) Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency, based at Goldsmiths, University of London. We undertake advanced spatial and media investigations into…
(inter)personal perspectives, agential realism, application, methods, object perspectives, string figures / speculative fabulation
Agential Realism
“How can the possibility of the queerness of one of the most pervasive of all critters – atoms – be entertained? These “ultraqueer” critters with their quantum quotidian qualities queer queerness itself in their radically deconstructive ways of being. The aim is to show that all sorts of seeming impossibilities are indeed possible, including the…
crossmapping, epistemic thing, examples, figures, informed dissent / proactive idiocy, interactional expertise, methods, perspectives, string figures / speculative fabulation, third space, trading zones, transaction spaces
raum*station
http://raumstation.cc/
crossmapping, epistemic thing, examples, figures, informed dissent / proactive idiocy, interactional expertise, perspectives, string figures / speculative fabulation, third space, trading zones
les complices
http://lescomplices.ch/about/translation/ Les Complices* is a self organised space and production office located in Zurich. Exhibitions, projects and events initiated and hosted by Les Complices* are situated in and between the fields of contemporary arts, theatre and film, critical theory and activist practice. Beside the more longterm activities a dense program of discussions, workshops, performances, publication…
(inter)personal perspectives, boundary object, crossmapping, examples, informed dissent / proactive idiocy, interactional expertise, string figures / speculative fabulation, third space, trading zones
OOR – OnesOwnRoom ZH
http://oor-rec.ch/ OOR Saloon ist ein Veranstaltungs- und Produktionszusammenhang in Zürich und organisiert regelmässig kollaborative Audio-Formate, Konzerte, Diskussionen, Workshops, DJ Lectures, Sonic Lectures, Listening-Formate, Releases und Performances und arbeitet mit Vorliebe in vielseitigen Kollaborationen und Kombinationen. Die OOR Saloon Veranstaltungen interessieren sich für Politiken von Sound und dem emanzipatorischen Potenzial des sonischen Raums und bewegen sich…
(inter)personal perspectives, crossmapping, examples, interactional expertise, perspectives, string figures / speculative fabulation, third space, transaction spaces
Center of possible studies
The Serpentine Gallery’s Edgware Road Project brings together artists, residents, shop-owners and others to investigate, activate and imagine futures for the Edgware Road. . International artists are collaborating closely with the neighbourhood through a series of residencies, commissions and exhibitions to explore and celebrate the history, cultures and experiences of the many communities centred on…
crossmapping, examples, hybrid fora, string figures / speculative fabulation, third space
Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL)
The Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) is an experimental laboratory that promotes innovative combinations of aesthetics and ethnography. It uses analog and digital media, installation, and performance, to explore the aesthetics and ontology of the natural and unnatural world. Harnessing perspectives drawn from the arts, the social and natural sciences, and the humanities, SEL encourages attention…
(inter)personal perspectives, concepts, examples, hybrid fora, methods
Sociocracy
Some gathered information about sociocracy – I think the concept it is very well suitable for transdisciplinary work / teams and is strongly related to hybrid fora. What is Sociocracy? A social ideal that values equality and the rights of people to determine the conditions under which they live and work, and An effective method…
(inter)personal perspectives, boundary object, concepts, crossmapping, object perspectives
Rhizom
(aus meiner Stichwort-Sammlung zur genaueren Untersuchung und Recherche freigegeben) Gegenentwurf zur Baumtheorie -> Baum funktioniert hierarchisch (einseitige Abhängigkeit, einseitiger Auf-bau von nicht sichtbaren Wurzeln, Stamm, Ästen, Zweigen, Blättern) und denkt zentriert (westliches Denkmodell ?) -> Rhizom ist ein flaches Wurzelgeflecht unter oder über der Erde, besteht aus vielen Knotenpunkten und ihren Verbindungen, kein Zentrum ersichtlich,…
agential realism, concepts, epistemic thing, experimental system, interactional expertise
Assemblage
(aus meiner Stichwort-Sammlung zur genaueren Untersuchung und Recherche freigegeben) Untersuchung des Begriffs nach den Philosophen Gilles Deleuze und Félix Guattari, sowie dessen Analyse der Philosophin Jane Benett in Bezug auf die Aktivität von Materialität: eine Assemblage als nicht-statisch oder -endlich, sondern als ein unendliches Kollektiv, Bewegung als Konzept/Motiv mögliche Literatur: Deleuze, Gilles und Guattari, Félix:…
concepts
Heterospaces
Heterospaces is a concept elaborated by philosopher Michel Foucault to describe certain cultural, institutional and discursive spaces that are somehow ‘other’: disturbing, intense, incompatible, contradictory or transforming. Heterotopias are worlds within worlds, mirroring and yet upsetting what is outside. Foucault provides examples: ships, cemeteries, bars, brothels, prisons, gardens of antiquity, fairs, Muslims baths and many more.
concepts
The Production of Space – Henri Lefebvre
The Production of Space is Lefebvre’s most influential work in the English speaking context. The book itself takes in a vast array of ‘disciplines’ and the whole time it is informed by the “project of a different society, a different mode of production, where social practice would be governed by different conceptual determinations” (Lefebvre, 1991:419). Seeking to…
concepts
Planetary Urbanisation
The idea of ‘Planetary Urbanisation’ was first theorised by Lefebvre (1970) through his work on ‘The Urban Revolution’, whereby the post-industrial explosion of urban society globally would create ‘complete urbanism’ worldwide and conceptualizations of the urban were needed to explain society itself. The stretching of social networks with an increase in megacities creates an urban…
figures
When Species Meet (Donna Haraway’s concept of “The Figure”)
Figures help me grapple inside the flesh of mortal world-making entanglements that I call contact zones. The Oxford English Dictionary records the meaning of “chimerical vision” for “figuration” in an eighteenth-century source, and that meaning is still implicit in my sense of figure. Figures collect the people through their invitation to inhabit the corporal story…
concepts, epistemic thing, experimental system, methods, object perspectives
Experimentalsysteme
Erfordert ist zuallererst, sich nicht auf einzelne Experimente zu kaprizieren, sondern bestimmte Experimentalanordnungen oder «Experimentalsysteme» als kleinste vollständige Arbeitseinheiten in den Blick zu fassen: Verkörperungen von bestimmten technischen Fertigkeiten, bereits vorausgesetztem Wissen, Vermutungen über zu produzierende Phänomene und die ihnen zugrunde liegenden Mechanismen. Experimentalsysteme sind Materialisierungen von Fragen und als solche «Maschinen zur Herstellung von…
boundary object, concepts, figures, mode 2-object, object perspectives
“conative bodies” by Baruch Spinoza
I just found a note of some earlier research, that might be interesting to look up more in detail. Here is the first note: examination of the concept conative bodies according to Baruch Spinoza: associative and social bodies, mutual influence of all bodies, dissolution of subject and object for the definition of mode (german Modus)
(inter)personal perspectives, agential realism, boundary object, concepts, experimental system, figures, object perspectives, string figures / speculative fabulation
Kritter
(Concept by the biologist Donna J. Haraway from Staying with the Trouble. Making kin in the Chthulucene as a suggestion of a metaphor or symbol for the consideration and definition of objects, things, bodies of thought, models, method (?) etc.): is translated with creature / reptile (german transl.: Viech/ Kreatur/ Kriechtier/ Kriecher) and stands as…