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Edward Burtinsky, Iberia Quarries #2, Marmorose EFA Co., Bencatel, Portugal, 2006
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Still from Film »Fordland Malaise«. Copyright: Susana de Sousa Dias
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Round Table »On Fibres amd Mixtures«. Foto: Michelle Mantel. Design: studioeins, adapted by »Matters of Activity«
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Design: studioeins, adapted by MoA. Photo: Michelle Mantel
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Round Table »Poetics and Politics of Sand«. Design: studioeins, adapted by Matters of Activity
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Round Table »Rinde: Gestaltung mit Resten«. Design: studioeins, adapted by Matters of Activity
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Roundtable »Vascularization«. Design: studioeins, adapted by MoA
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Round Table »Tesselated Material Systems«. Design: studioeins, adapted by Matters of Activity
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Self-Shaping Textiles. Design: studioeins
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Poster: Scoring Perspectives for Speculative Ethnography
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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
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Open Space Event, 9 November 2023. Copyright: Matters of Activity
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Film still »Assembling the Coast«
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Edward Burtinsky, Iberia Quarries #2, Marmorose EFA Co., Bencatel, Portugal, 2006