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IXDM.distro at I Never Read

18–21 June 2025, Kaserne Basel

IXDM.distro explores more-than-human publics with two book launches and a selection of publications at this year’s edition of I Never Read, Art Book Fair Basel.

Book launches & apéro:
Thursday, 19 June

The Mountain Speaks to the Sea

Friday, 20 June 2025, 4–6 PM

Join curator Silvia Franceschini in conversation with artist and filmmaker Tekla Aslanishvili about her latest cinematic project, The Mountain Speaks to the Sea (2024), and the accompanying publication released alongside her solo exhibition at Onomatopee.

Practice-based Forms of Reading and Writing

11 & 12 June 2025, HGK Basel

With Jackie Wang, Cassandra Troyan, مشترى هلال (Moshtari Hilal), சிந்துஜன் வரதராஜா (Sinthujan Varatharajah), Sarah E. Truman, fantastic little splash (Lera Malchenko & Oleksandr Hants), and Délphine Chapuis-Schmitz.

Willful Inflorescence / Lush Damage

Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 18.00 @ CML

British artist Jane Prophet discusses her new work WILD Flowers, which immerses viewers in a larger-than-life wildflower meadow, richly weaving together a wide range of media, methods and techniques across various scales and relationships.

Holding Spaces, Making Conditions

22–24 May 2025, University of Cologne

Bringing together students, and cultural producers, this symposium questions the infrastructures shaping artistic research and asks how they can be build differently — part of the MA Transversal Design.

Statement of Solidarity

On the escalation of violence in the SWANA region

Statement in solidarity

with student encampments and peoples subjected to genocidal violence

Co-listening: A closing conversation

Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 18:30

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay and Stas Shärifullá in conversation on occasion of the conclusion of the project Critical Listening to the Global South: Towards a Decolonization of Sound Media.

De-hegemonizing Technologies of Capture

Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 13:00–17:00

On the hegemony of “technologies of capture” and subversive artistic and scholarly interventions to de-hegemonize Western-born technologies.

With guests Paola Torres Núñez del Prado, Moushumi Bhowmik and Ishita Chakraborty. Hosted by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, joined by Stas Shärifullá.