Selected contributions, presented according to thematic context, highlighting both key research activities and their dissemination through scholarly engagement, including lectures, talks, panels, and collaborative projects.

Context: Artists’ Publications

• 12-13 May 2026. "The Pieces of Tomas Schmit as Resonant Media". Presentation on occasion of the first research seminar in the frame of the ESCON project (Writings in Contact. Networks of Intermedial Writing in the Era of Analogue Globalisation, 1961–1991), University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. 
• 7–9 November 2024. “Archives by Women Artists in the Space of Books—and Some Elephants in the Room.” Part II of a lecture within the research seminar Thinking about the Material in a Modest Artists’ Book, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
• 25–26 June 2024. “Archives and Books.” Lecture within the research seminar Thinking about the Material in a Modest Artists’ Book, Université Lumière Lyon 2, during the 36th Congrès du Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA), Lyon, France.
• 20 June 2023. “Die künstlerische Kohärenz der Spector Books” [The Artistic Coherence of the Spector Books]. Laudatio (with Florian Ebner) on the occasion of the award of the Gutenberg Prize of the City of Leipzig to Spector Books, Leipzig, Germany.
• 11 April 2022. “Ce qu’est un livre (What a Book Is).” Lecture on occasion of the exhibition Papier (30 March–16 April 2022), École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, Lyon, France.
• 27–29 January 2022. “Avant-Garde on Demand: Artists’ Books between Total Art and Download.” Panel discussion with Katharina Neuburger and Timm Ulrichs at the symposium Judge a Book by Its Cover: Artists’ Books in the Digital Age, Burg Hülshoff – Center for Literature / Haus Rüschhaus, Münster, Germany.
• 26 November 2021. “Gaining Scope for Action: Marie-Sophie Beinke’s Postal Editions.” Lecture, De Slegte, Antwerp, Belgium.
• 11 November 2021. “The Archive for Small Press & Communication (A.S.P.C.): Context, Concept, Connections, and Critique.” Lecture within the seminar Collecting, Connecting, Archiving: The ‘Active Archive’ as a Transcultural Alternative during the Cold War, Artpool – Art Research Center, Budapest, Hungary, and Archivo Lafuente, Santander, Spain.
• 1 June 2021. “Artists’ Books as Defined and Realized by Ulises Carrión.” Introduction and screening of Bookworks Revisited on the occasion of the award of the Prix Bob Calle, École des beaux-arts de Paris, Paris, France.
• 20 February 2020. “Guy Schraenen: A Foreigner Abroad.” Lecture in the frame of Documents 15, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain.
• 3 December 2019. “Guy Schraenen, Founder and Curator of the Artists' Book Collection of the Museum Serralves.” Talk with João Fernandes, moderator Ricardo Nicolau, Museum Serralves, Porto, Portugal.
• 7–8 November 2019. “Systems of Memory in the Space of the Artists’ Book: The Contemporary Potential of Circulating Artists’ Archives.” Lecture at the symposium Moving Archives, Centre for Artists’ Publications, Bremen, Germany.

Context: Sound Art

• 12 May 2026. “Pieces by Tomas Schmit” (working title). Presentation on occasion of the first research seminar of the research project group ESCON (Writings in Contact. Networks of Intermedial Writing in the Era of Analogue Globalisation, 1961–1991), focusing on music and sound creation, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain.
• 2 December 2021. “Exposer le son (Exhibiting Sound).” Lecture in the series Les Jeudis de l’art: L’art et la scène, Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP), Paris, France.
• 22 September 2019. “Artists’ Publications on Discs.” Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon, France.
• 15 September 2005. “Visual Artists Make Music.” Intervention at the Museum Weserburg Bremen, exhibition Vinyl, Bremen, Germany.

Context: Ulises Carrión

• 9 November 2016. “Ulises Carrión et le ‘Big Monster’.” Lecture at École supérieure d’arts de Caen/Cherbourg, France.
• 6 April 2016. “Ulises Carrión: Modèle pour les artistes contemporains?” Lecture at Centre Pompidou Musée national d’art moderne / CCI, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Paris, France.
• 23 September 2015. “Ulises Carrión. Books and Other Books. Texts and Other Texts.” Lecture at Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Portugal.
• 9 September 2015. “‘Where Does the Border Lie…?’ Network Strategies of Ulises Carrión.” Lecture at Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands.
• 10 June 2015. “‘Other Books And So’. The First Shop Gallery for Artists’ Books.” Lecture at Salon für Kunstbuch im 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria.
• 7 May 2015. “Ulises Carrión. Visuelle Poesie als kritische Bildpraxis.” Lecture at University of Osnabrück, Germany.
• 2 April 2015. “Utiliser la culture comme stratégie artistique.” Lecture at Département arts plastiques, Université Rennes 2, France.

Context: Bas Jan Ader

• 2–4 February 2026. “Bas Jan Ader’s Representations of Mourning: A Conscious Act of Representation between Self-Loss and Self-Assertion.” Lecture at the symposium The Avant-Garde, Affectively, MDRN Lab, University of Leuven, Belgium.
• 2 June 2025. “Bas Jan Ader. Reflections on His Disappearance, Fifty Years Ago.” Seminar, École des Mines, Paris, France.
• 28 September 2021. “Bas Jan Ader: Am Rande des Horizonts (At the Edge of the Horizon).” Lecture, Akademie Hamburg-Blankenese, Germany.
• 3–4 October 2018. “Bas Jan Ader’s Portraits of Self-Abandonment and Self-Devotion.” Symposium Artist Complex: Images of Artists in Photography, Museum für Fotografie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany.
• 30 November 2016. “Greetings from Beautiful Ader Falls: A Critical Reflection on the Hype Surrounding Bas Jan Ader.” Lecture, Academy of Fine Arts, Porto, Portugal.
• 15 September 2012. “Karaoke in Art: Bas Jan Ader and His Epigones Today.” Lecture, series on Bas Jan Ader, Hanze University of Applied Sciences / Academie Minerva, Groningen, Netherlands.
• 13–15 September 2007. “Jonathan Monk. Eine Beck’statische Hommage an Bas Jan Ader.” Symposium Künstler als Wissenschaftler, Kunsthistoriker und Schriftsteller, Museum Weserburg Bremen, Germany.

Context: Visual Knowledge

• 11 April 2026. “What About the Subject? Technical Operations in Art, from Dadaism to the Prompt.” Lecture in the frame of the Forum des sciences cognitives, Paris, France.
• 4 March 2016. “Die Vergegenwärtigung von Deutungsprozessen angesichts religiöser Repräsentationen.” Research program, Evangelische Akademie Loccum, Germany.
• 20 October 2012. “Das Mantra Partizipation: Sein heimlicher Lehrplan als Herausforderung.” Federal Congress art.education.participation, Dresden, Germany.
• 5–7 September 2011. “Graphien als subjektive Methode der Wissens- und Erfahrungsbildung.” With Maria Peters, Annual Conference of the Austrian Educational Research Association (AEPF), Klagenfurt, Austria.
• 4 November 2010. “The Empirical Exploration of Creative Action Processes within Contingency.” With Maria Peters, Symposium Respectful Uncertainty, Zurich, Switzerland.
• 3 October 2010. “Navigating the Thicket of Conflicting Research Postulates: Toward the Study of Competence in Contingency.” Research program, Evangelische Akademie Loccum, Germany.
• 6 September 2009. “The Problem of Visualizing Aesthetic Experiments for Research.” Research program, Evangelische Akademie Loccum, Germany.
• 30 June 2007. “Performative Interventions indoors and outdoors of the documenta 12 exhibition.” Presentation of the project Seeing at the Edges of Chance, Lunch Lectures, documenta Halle, Kassel, Germany.
• 11 August 2007. “Art as a Vehicle for Sociopolitical Agendas?” Lecture, program of documenta 12, documenta Halle, Kassel, Germany.

Loose Threads

• 3 April 2008. “‘…Einen Faden ins Gewebe schlagen’: Das Buch und der Wind by Eugenia Gorbatschowa.” Künstlerhaus Güterbahnhof, Bremen, Germany.
• 18 September 2007. “The Role of Museums Today.” ASKI Conference, University of Bremen Guest House, Bremen, Germany.
• June–September 2007. “The History of documenta in Kassel.” Lecture series, Orangerie, documenta 12, Kassel, Germany.