‘open lecture’

… the two-year research project  Curating The Digital Attic Archive. The project aims to create an open-source web platform to reconnect the dispersed Attic Archive, maintaining its conceptual autonomy while preserving it physically across international collections. The series title derives from Pete Horobin’s 1970s performance, which explores how artists’ archives–particularly those emerging from time-based and networked practices–survive in post-digital contexts. Presented in association …

… a structural principle, as an “exhibition within an exhibition”. Together, these two perspectives opened up a broad panorama of German art, focusing in particular on the years 1925–1929, when Germany enjoyed a degree of economic stability. An aim was to highlight the dialectic between, on the one hand, a fascination with the achievements of the modern age (technological progress, standardization, etc.), and, on the other, a critique of cold, alienating functionalization. For the Hungarian …

… underpinning artistic practice. The project takes the form of five extended meetings of seminars, lectures, site visits and writing workshops. The seminars will be held in Prague, Budapest (Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) - Artpool Art Research Center), Berlin/Leipzig, New York and Giverny (France) over 2022-24. Places are available for ca. fifteen junior fellows predominantly from East, Central and Southeastern Europe but also from the United States and other …