// tAI // Show ‘Can I use your space?’ – Torri Nickmans and Gaston Meskens – part of BORGER#15
TORRI NICKMANS & GASTON MESKENS – Can I use your space? Part of BORGER#15 Friday 25 January, 6pm – 11pm (opening) Saturday 26 January, 2pm – 6pm Sunday 27 January, 2pm – 6pm until 10 February by appointment only The Arts Institute Kattenberg 93 2140 – BoHo Antwerp
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// tMT // Ronald Ophuis in The Mono Theatre
Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 spreekt Dimitri Goossens met Ronald Ophuis in het salon van The Mono Theatre Ronald Ophuis : Schilderen ondanks alles… Georges Bataille stelde dat vanaf Auschwitz het beeld van de mens onscheidbaar was van dat van een gaskamer. Een al te menselijke wonde in onze cultuur. …
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// tAI // “ELEGIAC FALLS (Part One) – The Radiobiological Human Tissue Repository” – part of Antwerp Art Weekend 2018
sample The Radiobiological Human Tissue Repository (installation with photos, drawings, prints, found and constructed artefacts, dimensions variable) > > ELEGIAC FALLS (Part One) – The Radiobiological Human Tissue Repository part of Antwerp Art Weekend 2018 The Radiobiological Human Tissue Repository is located in Ozyorsk in Russia. Since 1951, the Repository …
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// tAI // The Consolation of Collapse – Lecture at the Sci-Fi Symposium at Netwerk Aalst
What is a society? Is it the set of sophisticated social, economic and political methods and structures we set up to organise ourselves today? Or is it the assemblage of temporary human ethic and aesthetic encounters in forests, bars, streets and meeting rooms, continuously dissolving with the promise to coagulate …
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// tPhC // Lecture at the 18th Global Development Network conference in Delhi
The Global Development Network had its 18th conference on 22 and 23 March 2018 in its headquarters in New Delhi, India. This years focus was on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development. I contributed to the session on Ethics with a talk on “The Politics of Hypothesis – …
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// tMt // Kris Gevers en Dimitri Goossens in The Mono Theatre op 1 december 2017
Op vrijdag 1 december spreken Kris Gevers en Dimitri Goossens in het salon van The Mono Theatre over “Venus begluren : naakte godin of goddelijke hoer?” En maar blijven kijken… Vanaf de renaissance in de schilderkunst tot vandaag op talloze internetsites. Venus, een godin uit het betere vlees gesneden, een …
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// tHH // the Party at the Happening Hotel
While 2 of the 3 guest rooms undergo a major renovation, the Happening Hotel opens the doors for an exclusive party on 26 August 2017. This is a private event. Contact brenda.lush@thehappeninghotel.com if you think you quality for an invitation. The Happening Hotel is the hotel of the Institute of …
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// tAI // New text – An introduction to the research of the Institute of Idle Curiosity for Elements of Seduction
The Institute of Idle Curiosity for Elements of Seduction is a research institute established in 2006. It is built on the (fragmented) legacy of the historical Institut Weich-Fehler für kritische Philosophie der Psychologie that existed from 1924 until 1952. The research programme of the Institute of Idle Curiosity for Elements …
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// tMt // Agnes Sabitova en Jo Seminck in het salon van The Mono Theatre
Op zaterdag 5 november 2016 spreekt Agnes Sabitova in The Mono Theatre over Melancholie van de zintuigen Hoe belangrijk zijn zintuigen in het beleven van melancholie? En hoe wordt ze beleefd als er één of meerdere zintuigen wegvallen? Door middel van een serie kleine experimenten en lichte filosofische verhandelingen worden …
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// tAI // Workshop ‘Melancholies of Modernity’ at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam
Revisiting Melancholy Robert Burton published the first edition of his magnum opus ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ in 1621. His aim was to write a definite and comprehensive study of the meaning of melancholy. His book promised to explain ‘.. What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and …
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