Reading sessions based on YOUNG GIRL READING GROUP, a project by artists Dorota Gawęda und Egle Kulbokaitė. Initiated by and jointly organized with Konstanze Schütze (University of Cologne). In an informal atmosphere, academic texts on queer theory, science fiction and digital imaginaries are read aloud together and discussed. Previous knowledge of the text is not required. The readings are accompanied by relaxing yoga sessions. [su_spacer]
PART 2:
@University of Cologne within the workshop X3: Theory of the Young Girl and Queering Technology
(Dorota Gawęda und Egle Kulbokaitė)
Grounding in History
07.11.19 (17:45-19.15)
Texte: Donna Haraway, Manifest für Cyborgs, 1985 (DT) & „Cyborg“ unter: http://cyborganthropology.com/Main_Page
Yoga: Adriene Mishler (https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawithadriene)
Situating in the Present
28.11.19 (17:45-19.15)
Texte: Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminist Manifesto, 2015 (DT) & Helen Hester: Xenofeminism, in: Rosi Braidotti/ Maria Hlavajova (Hg.): Posthuman Glossary, Bloomsbury 2018
Yoga: Adriene Mishler (https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawithadriene)
Staying with the Trouble
12.12.19 (17:45-19.15)
Texte: Luciana Parisi. Introduction. In: Abstract Sex & Donna Haraway. Unruhig Bleiben (DE)
Yoga: Adriene Mishler (https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawithadriene)
Speculating on the Future
09.01.20 (17:45-19.15)
Text: Irmgard Emmelhainz. Decolonial Love. in: Eflux, Journal #99 – April 2019. Online: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/99/262398/decolonial-love/
Yoga: Adriene Mishler (https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawithadriene)
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Dorota Gawęda und Egle Kulbokaitė
Dorota Gawęda (b. 1986, Lublin, PL) and Eglė Kulbokaitė (b. 1987, Kaunas, LT) are an artist duo founded in 2013, based in Basel (CH). Both are graduates of the Royal College of Art, London (2012) and are the founders of YOUNG GIRL READING GROUP (2013). Gawęda and Kulbokaitė have exhibited internationally including: Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; HKW, Berlin; 6th Athens Biennale; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; MOMA, Warsaw; ICA, London; MMOMA, Moscow; Berlin Biennale 9 among others.
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PART I:
@Altana Galerie TU Dresden & Schimmel Projects Art Centre Dresden: Tabita Rezaire’s COSMIC DOWNLOAD
The TU Dresden’s Office for Academic Heritage Art Science Labs’ »DEAR HUMANS,…« pursues the challenges of technological developments, exhibitions and research partnerships. Since 2018, international artists have been working together with scientists and academics on #AI, #Human-Machine-Interaction, #Bots, #Algorithms and more.
Concept: Gwendolin Kremer and Konstanze Schütze
As part of the ART SCIENCE LAB III TABITA REZAIRE is presenting Cosmic Download, a selection of films and installations from the last five years.
Exhibition flyer and programme
READING GROUP
09.07.19 @TU Dresden: Conference Digital Imaginaries of the Self
Text: Margarida Mendes: Molecular Colonialism
Yoga: Charles Washington
29.06.19 @University of Cologne: Conference Mikroformate
Text: Françoise Vergès: Capitalocene, Waste, Race, and Gender
19.05.19 @Schimmel Projects Dresden in the exhibition COSMIC DOWNLOAD w/ Tabita Rezaire
Text: Irmgard Emmelhainz: Decolonial Love
Yoga: Ulla Heinrich
16.05.19 @Schimmel Projects Dresden in the exhibition COSMIC DOWNLOAD w/ Tabita Rezaire
Text: Sven Lütticken: Shattered Matter, Transformed Forms
Yoga: Charles Washington
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Tabita Rezaire is infinity incarnated into an agent of healing, who uses art as a mean to unfold the soul. Her cross-dimensional practices envision network sciences – organic, electronic and spiritual – as healing technologies to serve the shift towards heart consciousness.
Navigating digital, corporeal and ancestral memory as sites of struggles, she digs into scientific imaginaries to tackle the pervasive matrix of coloniality and the protocols of energetic misalignments that affect the songs of our body-mind-spirits. Inspired by quantum and cosmic mechanics, Tabita’s work is rooted in time-spaces where technology and spirituality intersect as fertile ground to nourish visions of connection and emancipation.
Through screen interfaces and collective offerings, her digital healing and energy streams remind us to see, feel, think, intuit, download, know and trust beyond western authority but towards the soul.
Tabita is based in Cayenne, French Guyana. She has a Bachelor in Economics (Fr) and a Master of Research in Artist Moving Image from Central Saint Martins (Uk). Tabita is a founding member of the artist group NTU, half of the duo Malaxa, and the mother of the energy house SENEB.
