Blackout: A Manual

From the beginning of the winter 2020 semester until the shutdown, students in the Critical Curatorial Lab at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design were engaged in developing an exhibition format to be deployed in an emergency scenario Conceived as pre-mediation for a moment when patterns of life are radically disrupted, their aim...
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Isolation (52°33’44.1”N 14°03’12.8”E) | Fabian Knecht

Forest of the Real At 52°33’441”N 14°03’128”E, a precise Global Positioning System coordinate provided by Google Maps, the blindfold is removed As you warily tread the muddy ground, your eyes adjust to bright white fluorescent light A trickle of water catches your ear You arrive, surrounded on all sides by windowless white walls, in a...
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Pareidolia

Commissioned for the 2017 European Conference for Science Journalists at IT-University, Copenhagen, Pareidolia addresses the themes of new media, climate reporting, and responsible science communication The exhibition is an invitation to see new faces in the clouds of rain and data that saturate our everyday lives As we confront the urgent social need to better...
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EMERGE 2017 | Frankenstein

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Cold Comfort

Reading the Paris Agreement | Amy Balkin On the eve of Winter Solstice of the hottest year thus far on record, December 21, 2017, we convene for a participatory performance of the work of American artist Amy Balkin: “Reading The Paris Agreement” Although it has been signed by over 100 nations, The Paris Agreement of...
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Dressing in a World of Endless Rainfall

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Control | Experiment

Stockholm University, June 14-17, 2016 The concept of experiment is governed by competing ideals of control and playful freedom While the controlled experiment is widely regarded as the gold standard of the natural sciences, the aspiration to control, direct, test and constrain novel operations is also prominent in artistic, social and political practices of experimentation...
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Placing the Golden Spike

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Sensing Change

In 2013, the Chemical Heritage Foundation (now the Science History Institute) launched Sensing Change, a year-long initiative to explore the interconnections between art, science, and our changing environment Along with an exhibition highlighting the work of eight contemporary artists, we conducted interviews with nine scientists whose work intersects with issues surrounding climate change These interviews remain...
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