The exhibition Curious Ensketchments will open at the occasion of the open door event at the ExC »Matters of Activity« on the 9 of November 2023.
LOCATION:
Central Laboratory Sophienstraße 22a 10178 Berlin
Group visits can be arranged on demand: contact MoA Public Relations <[email protected]>
Maxime Le Calvé is an anthropologist of art and science, currently postdoctoral research associate at the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activities” (HU Berlin). In his latest ethnographic project, he is exploring haptic creativities and cartographic practices in neurosurgery. Visual ethnographer, he is making use of digital drawing as an investigative device. He is also curating virtual reality experiences, which he frames as collaborative art-science inquiries aiming to stretch the senses of anthropologists and of their publics. He trained in general ethnology in Paris Nanterre and owns a PhD in social anthropology and in theater studies, from EHESS Paris and FU Berlin. He has published on the ethnographic study of atmospheres (Exercices d’ambiances, 2018), on performance art, on music, on Berlin, on brains, and on ethnographic training. He was the co-curator of the exhibitions Field/Works in Lisbon (2020-2021), Stretching Materialities (Berlin, 2021-2022), and currently the participant exhibition Sketching Brains (Charité, Berlin) and Curious Ensketchments (MoA, HU Berlin).
Maxime Le Calvé would like to thank the members of ExC »Matters of Activity«, in particular the colleagues of Cutting and of Object Space Agency, for the fabulous projects throughout the years, and many more to come. My gratitude goes especially to the MoA management and PR team, in particular Kerstin Germer & Carolin Ott for believing and supporting this project, and Franziska Wegener for her help at a critical moment. The PR team at MoA has been and is consistently delivering a fantastic work output, despite the imponderables of research led by design principles and curious academics. A special thank to Mudar Al-Khufash, who joined the team a few months ago but without whose patience and professionalism this exhibition would not have been possible.
The author acknowledges the support of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material« funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2025 – 390648296.
