15/01/2025
We’re glad to announce this upcoming series of three workshops in collaboration with Liebig12, ,as part of the exhibition Notes from the hidden sphere (location: Liebigstraße 12, 10247 Berlin)
https://liebig12.net/notes-from-the-hidden-sphere/
Workshops on Elemental*Experimental practices:
Monday, January 27th, 15:00 - 18:00: with Andreas Philoppopoulos-Mihalopoulos, on water and Hydrojustice
Tuesday January 28th, 15:00 - 18:00: with Brandon LaBelle, on air, breathing and sounded life
Thursday January 30th, 15:00 - 18:00: with ~pes (elizabeth gallón droste and pablo torres gómez), on earth, slow vibrations and the geophonic
*Please register by writing to: [email protected]
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Monday, January 27th, 15:00 - 18:00
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
On Hydrojustice: floating / swimming / diving
A session to explore aquatic horizontality and how it opposes to human verticality. Hydrojustice thinks of the globe and all its bodies (human and nonhuman) as mediated by water, and advocates that all political and legal decisions must be taken in relation to water. In this session, we will explore hydrojustice through readings of Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos forthcoming book Hydrojustice as well as his poetic renderings of water as seen in his fictional works Book of Water and Our Distance Became Water, and through his artistic, performative practice. We will engage in somatic cognition exercises in relation to water and flow, and we will experiment with horizontality as a strategy of adaptation.
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos is an artist / academic / fiction author. His practice includes performance / legal theory / ecological pedagogy / lawscaping / performance lecture / video art / spatial justice / moving-poems / critical autopoiesis / online performance / radical ontologies / installation art / picpoetry / performance machines / fiction writing / sculpture / wavewriting / clay making / hydrotheory / painting / continental philosophy / posthumanism / anthropocenes. He is Professor of Law & Theory at the University of Westminster, and Director of The Westminster Law & Theory Lab. His academic books include the monographs Absent Environments (2007), Niklas Luhmann: Law, Justice, Society (2009), and Spatial Justice: Body Lawscape Atmosphere (2014). His fiction includes Book of Water (2022) and the novel Our Distance Became Water (2023). His art practice has been shown at Palais de Tokyo, the 58th Venice Art Biennale 2019, the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale 2016, the Tate Modern, among others.
Tuesday January 28th, 15:00 - 18:00
Brandon LaBelle
On air, breathing and sounded life
What is this invisible, seemingly immaterial thing called air? How to follow it, and to grasp the vital energy it contains and provides? We’ll delve into air, following the aerial dimension as what connects us in ever-complex ways. This includes the experience of breath as the very rhythm of embodied vibrancy, and how breathing is vulnerable to an increasing array of pollution, toxicity, infection. From planetary connection to feelings of interdependency, we’ll further experiment with air through the medium of sound, listening to the ways in which it moves air, traveling along its material, cultural and spiritual currents. To find in sound an elemental practice by which to elaborate the living.
Brandon LaBelle is an artist, writer and theorist living in Berlin. His work focuses on questions of agency, community, pirate culture, and poetics, which results in a range of collaborative and extra-institutional initiatives, including The Listening Biennial and Academy. In 1995 he founded Errant Bodies Press, an independent publishing project supporting work in sound art and studies, performance and poetics, artistic research and contemporary political thought. His publications include: Dreamtime X (2022), Acoustic Justice (2021), The Other Citizen (2020), Sonic Agency (2018), Lexicon of the Mouth (2014), among others.
Thursday January 30th, 15:00 - 18:00
~pes (elizabeth gallón droste and pablo torres gómez)
On Earth, Slow Vibrations & the Geophonic
The workshop delves into the subtle and often imperceptible frequencies of the environment. Through discussions on infrasound and its planetary sources, the human perception of these vibrations, and the role of modern technologies like geophones, duo ~pes invites participants to engage with listening beyond the otocentric—where our bodies may become viscous antennas attuned to the earthly, multiple interwoven temporalities. Guided exercises will integrate bodily sensing, movement, and possible infrasound transduction modes, transforming matter into a resonant network of interactions.
~pes is a collaborative artistic research process between bogotá-born and berlin-based elizabeth gallón droste and pablo torres gómez. Through site-specific investigation, ~pes evokes multimodal encounters with the interspecific weave we are part of, enacting partial encounters with divergent temporalities and beings in processes of becoming.
