stretching senses school festival

Poster Stretching Senses School Festival. Image »Subterenaen Matters« Baris Pekcagliyan, Warja Rybakova, Nayeli Vega, Paulina Greta, adapted by NODE Berlin. Copyright: Matters of Activity

Feeling limestone grow from the inside and seeing its dispersion as urban landscape; experiencing an amphitheater through vibrations of willow branches; reaching out to the hidden electrical energies of things around us; touch the surface of cellular tissues. The »stretching senses school« festival exhibits site-specific virtual reality artworks from ongoing research at the Cluster at TA T, in the continuation of the »Stretching Materialities« exhibition.

How can we stretch our senses to explore the world at different scales? Around the thematic of planetary health, the festival brought together different projects that evolved out of a co-educative experiment between multimodal anthropology and immersive interaction art, curated by Maxime Le Calvé and Yoonha Kim, assisted by Anne Delle. The event on June 23rd-25th featured five new VR installations and a fantastic lineup of digital performance lectures by leading environmental thinkers Tim Morton, Dominic Boyer, Lisa Messeri and John Tresch.

Workshops

23 June, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Workshop »Antennas«: »Willowalks: Sound Exploration Through Willow Branches«
by Chloé Lee, Samuel Perea-Díaz, Vanta

24 June, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Workshop »Leaking Bodies«: »Enter the Flow of Incontinent Matter«
by Charlotte Roschka, Hugo Larqué, Karolina Żyniewicz, Jemma Woolmore, Mickey van Olst

25 June, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Workshop »Subterranean Matters«: »Extracting the Surface«
by Baris Pekcagliyan, Warja Rybakova, Nayeli Vega, Paulina Greta

Limited attendance to the workshops, please register to: dellanne [at] hu-berlin.de

Lectures (No Registration Needed)

23 June, 6:15–7:45 pm, Opening Lecture
Lisa Messeri (Yale University)
»Senses, Scales, Worlds: Virtual Reality and the Possibilities and Constraints of Thinking Otherwise«
Introduction: Wolfgang Schäffner (Director MoA, HU Berlin)
Curatorial Statement: Yoonha Kim & Maxime Le Calvé (MoA, HU Berlin)

Live Stream Lecture 23 June 2022 Stretching Senses School. Copyright: Baris Pekcagliyan, Warja Rybakova, Nayeli Vega, Paulina Greta & Matters of Activity

24 June, 6:15–7:45 pm, Performance Lecture
Tim Morton & Dominic Boyer (Rice University)
»Hyposubjects: an Evening of Improv Philosophy«
Introduction: Jörg Niewöhner (IfEE, IRIS Thesys, HU Berlin)

Live Stream Lecture 24 June 2022 Stretching Senses School. Copyright: Baris Pekcagliyan, Warja Rybakova, Nayeli Vega, Paulina Greta & Matters of Activity

25 June, 6:15–7:45 pm, Closing Lecture
John Tresch (Warburg Institute)
»Matter and Sense Stretch Backward: Hermetic Instruments, Romantic Machines«
Introduction: Claudia Mareis (Co-Director MoA, HU Berlin)

Live Stream Lecture 25 June 2022 Stretching Senses School. Copyright: Baris Pekcagliyan, Warja Rybakova, Nayeli Vega, Paulina Greta & Matters of Activity