Photo credits: Simos Batzakis
Knowledge is a plural concept. There exists a myriad of knowledges: useful, useless, profitable, bourgeois, vital, disciplined, specialized, uncategorized, hidden, lost, outsourced, implicit, explicit, tacit, codified…
In its final event, the projects of the ASF hub were celebrated for their actions toward shaping the sustainable transformation of our society – supported by an artwork from the accompanying artistic research.
How do we want to live?
The workshop will shed new light on disorientation and on how film artists throughout history use (optical) disorientation and confusion as a paradigm in their work. What can be gained by losing one’s grip, by simply letting go? What pictures arise with dizziness?
Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond have accompanied the construction site of the museum for over a year and a half and have developed a photo and video series that addressed the transformation process.
Today, I am going to lay out some ideas that build on many different aesthetic performances and practices involving trans bodies and that search for and produce new vocabularies for discussing transness and new deployments of transness for the project of dismantling world and worldedness as concepts that hold current political realities in place.
