Distraction as a Landing Net? Notes on the Potential of the Amusement Park

So the bright colors and the multifariousness of the Prater attractions were simply there to be used as a physical means to make something that always seemed new available to the visitors using them – human beings, children, and adults alike – something that always seemed new to them as they clambered down from them or came out of them, even if they were just the same old rides.

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Essay

Ruth Anderwald

Three suggestions on method for the TRANSFORM Symposium

A method is related to both creating a practice to access (new) knowledge and creating a vessel for the gained knowledge to be presented, known, and understood.

Document

Living in a Dizzying World – Art Competition & Survey

The understanding of the specifics of the artistic work process is still incomplete. Philosophers like Maurice Merleau-Ponty (on Paul Cézanne) or Gilles Deleuze (on Francis Bacon in 'The Logic of Sensation') have ventured into that realm. This competition is an attempt by a team of artists and scientists whom together are trying to come to a more profound and holistic understanding of the artistic process and its needs.

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Initiation and Gangster Backstage

8 Feb 2017, 18:00

Having grown up in Lesotho (his mother is German, his father South African), Teboho Edkins' films are shaped by a search for borders: between belonging and intrusion, between documenting and fictional storytelling, between film and video art.