Medienforschungsschwerpunkte im Jahr 2019 / Research Areas for the year 2019
the 2019 summer workshop
will focos on gravity experiments
A further inspiration is drawn from
forest knowledge, matsutake foraging and being in the world
reflecting on the materials of the spine and arborescent perception, grave pleasures, transmitted through our bones and fluids, wood and moss touch.
The workshop will include sculptural work with wood and fallen trees. Our forest excursion this year is to the North Side high up on the edge of the Quarry
and then onward to the Hoxfels.
Matsutake 5, with Zhi Xu (c) 2019 Johannes Birringer
AGENDA of our PROCESS:
>>Friday<< July 26: 18:30 dinner/barbecue outside in the gallery of resurrected trees
followed by discussion of the workshop themes, late evening film screening
of
Themes: Terrestrisches Manifest (Bruno Latour); Agnes Heller / "Das Vermächtnis
ist noch in Wirksamkeit" [The legacy is still in effect..]
- in memoriam Agnes Heller, who drowned just a few days ago and whose lecture on her philosophy ("Eine kurze Geschichte meiner Philosophy") we heard last summer in Saarbrücken
Moon /Landing without Atmosphere; fehlende Atmosphäre; wood (Holz) -
resurrection of dead trees / moss (Moos) \ Mondbetrachtung in mondloser Nacht
/
Moss observation in the Rain Forest
Schreiben/Malen/Fotografieren: Notebook for Painters/Photographers:
Wortmaschinen (Öyvind Fahlström) & "Geknetete Sprache" (kneaded language)
>>Saturday<<: July 27
8:30 - 9:15 Qigong exercise
9:30 Breakfast:
10:45 Walk into the Forest / photography
Saturday afternoon
13:oo - 19:oo Painting and writing / presentations
Heiner Weidmann presents script for "Moss" performance collected from numerous literary, historical, encyclopedic and botanical sources
Dinner and discussion
>>Sunday<< July 28
8:30 to 9:15 Qigong exercise
9:30 Breakfast
10:45 writer's workshop
Uschi Schmidt Lenhard directs exercise in autobiographical writing
Reading of autobiographical stories and fictocriticism
discussion
Wood sculpture work / Reforestation
painting lab
Concluding dinner at 18:oo
>>Monday<< July 29
garden project: rebuilding fence and experimenting with a winch to resurrect bent oak trees and re-align them
end of workshop
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Was ist Interaktions-Kunst? Ein Manifest.
10 Years of Interaktionslabor:
Vanessa Michielon interview with Johannes Birringer
Allgemeine Beschreibung des Labors/ General Description of the Lab
(english)
(español)
(francais)