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08 Feb Klang Raum Sinn – DNA 21 (DE)
Menschen empfinden Klangereignisse höchst unterschiedlich. Nach wie vor ist wenig Gesichertes bekannt: über die Physik, die Biologie, die Signifikanten und die unbewussten Prozesse, die der Konstruktion von auditiven Erfahrungen zugrunde liegen. Mit den Mitteln künstlerischer Forschung vermittelt dieses Buch eine Vorstellung davon, wie sich mentaler Raum, soziale Praxis und unmittelbare Klangerfahrung zueinander verhalten und wie zwischen diesen Ebenen Verbindungen entstehen können. Eine Topologie der Resonanzen, Reflexionen und Vibrationen in ständiger Bewegung.
18 Jan The New Institution – DNA 25 (EN)
Cultural and academic institutions have been in crisis for quite some time now. In many cases, they still refer to a canon that has been made obsolete by global developments—in particular, by new voices from the Global South. Their modes of knowledge production operate within disciplinary bounds that can no longer cope with the Anthropocene’s radical processes of change, and their self-referential paradigms have ceased to reflect social change and the needs of society. Against this backdrop, the book discusses new counter-institutional practices and concepts, examining specific examples that reframe intellectual and pragmatic responses to concrete situations of societal conflict and demonstrate a new connection between social, aesthetic, and academic forms of work based on integrative, multi-perspectival approaches that transcend existing divides.
18 Jan Evidence Ensembles – DNA 24 (EN)
Our planet is experiencing the first stage of the Anthropocen: a higly disruptive transitional period of "global weirding" within which established ecological, climatic, geochemical and biological patterns are changing radically, and in some cases even are threatened with collapse. There is no lack of evidence for this: material evidence of this critical planetary transformation has long been omnipresent. However, it is also evident that humans are capable of learning and compensating for mistakes, that they are open to new cosmologies and old practices that allow for interdependence and generate care. Evidence Ensembles is an experimental collages of perspectives on the material witnesses of planetary change, their reconstruction and their calling in us.
18 Jan Talkback Circuits: New Alphabets at School – DNA 23 (EN)
The language of tomorrow originates in the schools of today. This book looks at (colonial) alphabets in the school microcosm, centring on a Spanish course at Johanna-Eck-Schule in Berlin and the project work carried out with Santiago Calderón and Aliza Yanes. The two artists present their own animated film images as a counter to the Eurocentric narratives offered by the class textbook which are rooted in colonialism. The students’ everyday lives are also determined by the informal use of language; here we are able to look into the pages of books and get to listen in on break-time conversations. How do the exchanges between the students, which are typically multilingual, tally with the monolingual transfer of knowledge? How does online hate speech affect people’s thinking? How can a syntax of body language be found? And how can the creative potential of memes and chat shorthand be transferred to educational practice?
18 Jan The New Alphabet School – DNA 22 (EN)
How can knowledge be both locally situated and globally relevant? Can knowledge be understood as a collective practice through the modes of action that produce it, rather than becoming a hegemonic matrix or lowest common denominator? The New Alphabet School is a traveling school for solidarity between different ways of knowing with stops in New Delhi, Athens, Porto, Rafah, Dakar, Warsaw and Berlin. Each meeting is dedicated to a knowledge practice such as Unlearning, Translating, Caring, Instituting, Survivance or Commoning. The volume presents contributions that have emerged from these gatherings and at the same time offers an overview of current methods of practice-based research in the arts, activism and collective research.
18 Jan Sound Space Sense – DNA 21 (EN)
People perceive audio events in very different ways. There is still a great deal of uncertainty about the physics, biology, signifiers, and unconscious processes on the basis of which auditory experiences are constructed. The book applies the methods of artistic research to convey a sense of how mental space, social practice, and the direct experience of sound relate to each other and how connections are generated between these levels—a topology of resonances, reflections, and vibrations in perpetual motion.
20 Dez After Sex – Edna Bonhomme & Alice Sprawls (Eds.)
Who decides what happens after sex? The last decade has seen many significant changes to the laws governing women’s reproductive rights around the world, from liberalisation in Ireland to new restrictions in the USA. After Sex offers personal and political perspectives from the mid-20th century to the present day, setting feminist classics alongside contemporary accounts. These essays, short stories and poems trace the debates and tell the stories; together, they ask us to consider what reproductive justice might look like, and how it could reshape sex. The writers pay special attention to people — both fictional and real — who have sought control over their sexual lives, and the joy, comedy, difficulties and disappointments that entails. But above all, After Sex testifies to the power of great writing to show us why that freedom is worth pursuing — without shame and without apology.
05 Mai Was ist Leben? – DNA 11 (DE)
Die Frage „What Is Life?” verfolgt die Lebenswissenschaften, seit Gottfried Treviranus und Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1802 zeitgleich den Begriff der „Biologie” prägten. Zahllose Artikel und Bücher sind dazu seither erschienen, genannt seien stellvertretend nur Erwin Schrödinger (1944) oder Lynn Margulis & Dorion Sagan (1995). Der Band präsentiert eine bewusst spekulative Auswahl an Aufmacherseiten von Texten der letzten 200 Jahre, die diese Frage im Titel tragen. Die Antworten zielen auf nicht weniger ab als den Wesenskern der Biologie: von „Summe der Funktionen, die sich gegen den Tod zur Wehr setzen” über „Fähigkeit, gegen den Strom der Zeit zu schwimmen” und „Bioinformationssystem” bis zu „essbar, liebenswert, tödlich”. Mit unkonventionellen Einwürfen fördert die biogroop die Feinheiten der Frage und ihrer Antworten zutage – und hebt sie damit aus den Angeln.