The exhibition-as-research project »Curious Ensketchments« presents a graphic ethnographic chronicle of »Matters of Activity«. The drawings showcased in this exhibition are pre-published on this radical open access platform, serving as a nexus for dialogues on curiosity and sketching as interdisciplinary practice throughout the Cluster. By clicking on the images below, or by following the QR codes on site, you will access the stories in text and in audio guide, as well as a growing collection of comments and discussions related to the series of drawings. You can also comment them and enter in the conversation.
What is an exhibition-as-research? The multifarious experimentations to relate space to objects-in-process is part of what “curation” meant in the first place.
We joined them to design shape-shifting shading devices, protocols for sensing emotional territories, outer heart fountain flows, plant ritual accessories for extra-planetary life, mycelium spatial collaborations, and garden-based divinatory systems.
Critically referencing classic anatomy lessons—like that of Doctor Tulp, portrayed by Rembrandt in 1632 — »Dissect« is an updated theatre for the analysis and discussion of contemporary works of art and design in the presence of the works.
“The idea of the exhibition project was to accompany the interdisciplinary research process on African materials and by doing so activate a space of reflection for each discipline to go beyond its normal procedures.”
That week at Matters of Activity, we switched methods to a more interventionist style: constituting a « fermentation club » is a participatory and collaborative way to investigate on the relation between human and microbiome.
Amid this fascinating but somewhat nebulous discourse, the idea of a collaboration between Matters of Activity and Driving the Human emerged. It was a glimmer of balance in a sea of ideas; a potential solution to the missing piece of this intricate puzzle.
In the labyrinthine heart of the Berlin State Library, we gathered under the guidance of Horst Bredekamp for a special session of our Second Breakfast bi-weekly seminar, dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of energy.
Entering the Central Laboratory that day, participants were greeted with balloons to inflate with their breath and a 285-hertz “Theta” sound bath, which they were invited to explore haptically through to the red latex bubbles.
How can we use 3D sketching to further develop neuroanatomical education, in particular to teach spatial understanding of anatomical landmarks and neurosurgical approaches?
We explored how to attend to more-than-human collectivities at different scales, from the built environment to cellular activity, the workshop was designed as an inventive anthropological design inquiry within the heavily mediated sense worlds of bio-design, HCI, and Medicine.
