
Edward Burtinsky, Iberia Quarries #2, Marmorose EFA Co., Bencatel, Portugal, 2006

Still from Film »Fordland Malaise«. Copyright: Susana de Sousa Dias

Round Table »On Fibres amd Mixtures«. Foto: Michelle Mantel. Design: studioeins, adapted by »Matters of Activity«

Design: studioeins, adapted by MoA. Photo: Michelle Mantel

Round Table »Poetics and Politics of Sand«. Design: studioeins, adapted by Matters of Activity

Round Table »Rinde: Gestaltung mit Resten«. Design: studioeins, adapted by Matters of Activity

Roundtable »Vascularization«. Design: studioeins, adapted by MoA

Round Table »Tesselated Material Systems«. Design: studioeins, adapted by Matters of Activity

Self-Shaping Textiles. Design: studioeins

Poster: Scoring Perspectives for Speculative Ethnography

Poster Material Legacies. Image: Dietrich Polenz and the Experimental Surgery Lab, 2020
By engaging with a series of different materials and techniques the exhibition encompassed both the problematization of unsustainable pasts and presents as well as the imagination of speculative material futures. Taking materiality as a starting point, each of the exhibits investigated its sociocultural, economic, and political context in order to disentangle the multiple interrelations that arise from and with materials. more

Schematic drawing of a part of a warping board. Source: Joachim Jungius, »Texturæ Contemplatio«, fol. 55r; in: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek – Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek, Martin Fogel collection of Zettelkasten, folder: Ms XLII, 1923: delta 28 © Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek; Public Domain.

Open Space Event, 9 November 2023. Copyright: Matters of Activity

Film still »Assembling the Coast«