Holding Spaces, Making Conditions
Rethinking Infrastructures
Organized with the Society for Artistic Research (gkfd), the Laboratory of Art and Research (University of Cologne), and Temporary Gallery, it brings together artists, theorists, and curators to imagine transversal formats for collective practice.
As part of Lucie Kolb’s Publishing module in the MA Transversal Design, the symposium becomes a site of publishing as public-making. The module takes an intersectional approach — questioning who gets to publish, how, and under what conditions — while critically engaging with technological, legal, and economic infrastructures. Interweaving pedagogy, public programming, and curating, the symposium features lectures, workshops, readings, a student exhibition and Chatty Chatty, a talk format led by MA Transversal Design students.
Thursday 22.5.2025
Location: University of Cologne / Laboratory of Art and Research
18.00 EXHIBITION OPENING with a performative reading by Jana Wodicka, and Chatty Chatty No. 6: Laboratory of Art and Research (Karina Nimmerfall, Leon Filter, and Lea Krommen)
Friday 23.5.2025
Location: University of Cologne / Laboratory of Art and Research and .theater
13.00 – 16.00 WORKSHOPS by Anna Bromley and Eric Otieno Sumba
Location: Temporary Gallery
18.00 – 21.00 PUBLIC PROGRAMME with lectures by Sabeth Buchmann, Isabelle Sully, Matthias Sohr, moderated by Lilian Haberer and a performative reading by Leon Filter
Saturday, 24.5.2025
Location: University of Cologne / Laboratory of Art and Research
10.00 – 12.45 PUBLIC PROGRAMME with lectures by Anna Bromley and Eric Otieno Sumba and Responses by Karolin Meunier and Swantje Lichtenstein
https://kunst.uni-koeln.de/event/symposium-220525/