LECTURES (Selection)

20.06.2023: Die Gedanken sichtbar machen. Überlagerungen von Inhalt, Gestaltung und Materialität der Spector Books (Making Thoughts Visible. Overlappings of Content, Design and Materiality in the Spector Books).
Laudatio zusammen mit Florian Ebner anlässlich der Verleihung des Gutenberg-Preises Leipzig a den Verlag Spector Books (A laudation together with Florian Ebner on the occasion of the award of the Gutenberg Prize Leipzig to the publishing house Spector Books).

11.04.2022: Ce qu'est un livre (What a Book is). Intervention dans le cadre de l'exposition "Papier" à l'École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon (30 mars au 16 avril).

27-29.1.2022: Avantgarde on Demand - Artists' Books between Total Art and Download.
Panel with Timm Ulrichs and Katharina Neuburger in the context of the symposium "Judge a Book by its Cover. Artists' Books in the Digital Age". Burg Hülshoff – Center for Literature/ Haus Rüsche Münster.
02.12. 2021: Exposer le son (Exhibiting Sound).
Lecture in the frame of the lecture series "Les Jeudis de l'art": L'art et la scène, ICP Paris.
26.11. 2021: Gaining scope for action. Marie-Sophie Beinke's Postal Editions.
Lectrure, De Slegte, Antwerp.

11.11. 2021: The Archive for Small Press & Communication (A.S.P.C.). Its Context, Concept, Connections and Critique.
Lecture in the frame of the international Seminar "Collecting, Connecting, Archiving. The ‘Active Archive’ as Transcultural Alternative during the Cold War", Artpool - Art Research Center (Budapest, Hungary) and Archivo Lafuente (Santander, Spain).
28.09.2021: Bas Jan Ader. Am Rande des Horizonts (Bas Jan Ader. At The Edge of the Horizon).
Lecture Akademie Hamburg-Blankenese e.V.

01.06.2021: Bookworks Revisited
Introdiction to Ulises Carrión's video. Prix Bob Calle, Beaux-arts de Paris (postponed).
20.2.2020: Guy Schraenen. A Foreigner Abroad.
Conference series Documents 15, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid.
7./8.11. 2019: Systems of Memory in the Space of the Artists’ Book. Today’s Potential of Circulating Artists’ Archives.
Symposium “Moving Archives”, Centre for Artists’ Publications, Bremen.
3./4.10.2018: Bas Jan Ader's Portraits of Self-Abandonment and Self-Devotion.
Symposium "Artist Complex. Images of Artists in Photography", Museum of Photographie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
23/24.11.2017: The Artists' Book Keyword Dictionary. Together with Guy Schraenen.
IV Jornadas de Bibliotecas de Museos - BIMUS (annual conference of museum libraries), Museo Reina Sofia Madrid.
25.03.2017: Über die Abwesenheit des anwesenden Künstlerbuchs in Ausstellungen (The Absence of the Present Artist' Book in Exhibitions).
Symposium: „It’s a Book“, in parallel zur Leipziger Buchmesse, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig.
26./27.1.2017: A Foreigner Abroad. The Publishing House Guy Schraenen éditeur and the Archive for Small Press and Communication.
Colloque: "Livres d’artistes et éditions bibliophiles en Belgique", Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Bruxelles.
30.11.2016: Greetings from Beautiful Ader Falls. A Critical Reflection on the Hype Surrounding Bas Jan Ader.
Lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Porto.
21./22.11.2016: Noli me tangere. Un-möglichkeiten des Ausstellens von Künstlerbüchern (Im-Possibilities of artists' books exhibitions).
Symposium "Bitte Umblättern! Künstlerbücher im Einsatz", Hamburger Kunsthalle.
9.11.2016: Ulises Carrión versus le 'Big Monster'.
Lecture at the École supérieure d'arts de Caen/Cherbourg.
15.6.2016: Bas Jan Ader : S'élever dans la chute (Bas Jan Ader: Rising in the Fall).
Lecture at La Terrasse : espace de l'art Nanterre en partenariat avec le Musée du Louvre.
6.4.2016: Ulises Carrión. Modèle pour les artistes contemporains? (Ulises Carrión. Model for Contemporary Artists?).
Lecture at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
4.3.2016: Die Vergegenwärtigung der Deutungsprozesse angesichts religiöser Repräsentationen (The Visualization of Interpretation Processes Regarding Religious Representations).
Research programm, Ev. Akademie Loccum.
23.9.2015: "The moment has come to declare...". Works and words by Ulises Carrión.
Lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Porto.
9.9.2015: "Where does the border lie?". Communication Strategies by Ulises Carrión.
Lecture at the Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht.
10.6.2015: "Other Books and So". Ulises Carrión's legendary bookshop gallery in Amsterdam.
Lecture at the Salon für Kunstbuch - 21er Haus, Wien.
8.5.2015: Die Neue Kunst des Büchermachens (The New Art of Making Books).
Lautre at the Universität Osnabrück.
2.4.2015/ Ulises Carrión. Utiliser la culture comme stratégie artistique (Ulises Carrión. Using Culture as Artistic Strategy).
Lecture at the University Rennes.
9.10.2014: Book as Artwork. Künstlerbücher der internationalen Post 1960er Avantgarde (Book as Artwork. Artists' Books by the International Avant-garde of the Post-1960s).
Lecture-Seminare at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München.
13.6.2014: Published Artworks. Unlimited and Independent.
Lectrure-Seminare at the School of Fine Arts, Porto.
20.10.2012: Das Mantra Partizipation. Sein heimlicher Lehrplan als Herausforderung (Participation as a Mantra. Its Secret Curriculum as a Challenge).
Bundeskongress "kunst.pädagogik.partizipation", Dresden.
15.09.2012: Karaoke in Art. Bas Jan Ader and his Epigones Today.
Project-series on Bas Jan Ader, Hanze University Akademie Minerva Groningen.
05.-07.09.2011: Graphien als subjektive Methode der Vergegenwärtigung und Generierung von Erfahrungs- und Wissensbildungsprozessen (Graphies as Subjective Method to Visualize and Generate Processes Knowledge Creating). Together with M. Peters.
AEPF-Tagung, Klagenfurt, AT.
04.11.2010: Die empirische Erforschung kreativer Handlungsprozesse in Kontingenz (The empirical Exploration of Creative Action Processes within Contingency). Together with M. Peters.
Symposium "Respectful uncertainty", Zürich.
3.10.2010: Navigieren im Dickicht sich widerstreitender Forschungspostulate. Auf dem Weg zur Untersuchung von Kontingenzkompetenz (Navigating within the Thicket of Conflicting Research Postulates).
Research program at the Ev. Akademie Loccum.
6.9.2009: Das Problem der Sichtbarmachung ästhetischer Experimente für die Forschung (The Problem of Visualizing Aesthetic Experiments for Research Purposes).
Research program at the Ev. Akademie Loccum.
3.4.2008: "... einen Faden ins Gewebe schlagen". Das Buch und der Wind von Eugenia Gortschakowa" ("... Woving a Thread into the Tissue". The book and the Wind by Eugenia Gorbatschowa).
Lecture at the Künstlerhaus Güterbahnhof Bremen.
18.9.2007: Die Rolle des Museums heute (The Role of Museums Today).
ASKI-Conference, Gästehaus der Universität Bremen.
06-09 2007: The History of the Documenta in Kassel.
Series of lectures at the Documenta 12. Several venues of the documenta 12 in Kassel.
11.8.2007: Kunst als Soziales Projekt? (Art as a Social Project?)
In the frame of the lecture program at the documenta 12. Dokumentahalle Kassel.
13.7.2007: Seeing at the Edges of Chance.
In the frame of the lecture program at the documenta 12. Dokumentahalle Kassel.

Nachruf / obituary

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Happy New Year 2023!

At this turning point, I look back with joy on a rich 2022 with inspiring projects. Among them:

>> the curatorship of the exhibition about and with Rainer Oldendorf "marco 15" and HIVE/Section Film: Gustave F.echt at the Kunstverein Weil am Rhein,

>> the panel with Katharina Neuburger and Timm Ulrichs at the symposium Judge a Book by its Cover at the Burg Hülshoff-Center for Literature in Münster,

>> the lecture in the context of the exhibition Papier, organised by the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon in collaboration with the Centre des livres d'artistes (cdla),

>> the text on the resonances between France and the Rhineland in the 1950s to 1970s for the exhibition catalogue for On Air. The Sound of Material in Art from the 1950s to the 1970s at the Kunstmuseen Krefeld,

>> the contribution for the catalogue raisonné of the Chilean artist Martín La Roche on his Musée légitime,

>> the text on the universal artist Iannis Xenakis for the VAN magazine on the occasion of the energetic Xenakis retrospective at the Paris Philharmonie to celebrate his (probably) one hundredth birthday,

>> the interview with me for Point Contemporain about my somewhat atypical biography,

>> the initially reserved but then enthusiastic discussions with my friends and colleagues Lilijana from Ljubljana, Lara from Trieste/Vienna and Henry from London at the documenta fifteen in Kassel, which invited us to poach on territories outside the routines, myths and canons of the mainstream art establishment,

>> not to forget my trip to the city of Cairo and its surroundings at the end of the year.