"For me the most successful Lunch Lectures were those at which a dialogue between the public and the podium was forged." - Interview with Wanda Wieczorek
At documenta 12 Wanda Wieczorek was responsible for the co-ordination of the documenta 12 Halle and the
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The final Lunch Lecture
23 September 2007, 1 pm
The final Lunch Lecture on September 23 was held by more than twenty Ruth Noacks and Roger m. Buergels. While this special lunch lecture started - like the 99 lunch lectures before - at the documenta-Halle, it
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Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture
documenta 12 magazines, 22 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Drawing on Foucault’s analysis of how Western society crossed the “biological threshold of modernity” around the time of the French
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“People, Animals, Sensations” – A Review of the documenta 12 Art Mediation Programme
documenta 12 art education, 21 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Education played a prominent role at the documenta 12. The exhibition was examined and discussed in
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Container: the changing (public) place of the intellectual in 1989
documenta 12 magazines, 20 September 2007, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Container was a television programme, realized by the Belgian broadcaster Jef Cornelis and relayed by the BRT (the
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Salon des Refusés
documenta 12 advisory board, 19 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Unemployed people from the Salon des Refusés have visited documenta 12 accompanied by art educators. In their presentation, they relate to historical and current ideas
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Conversation with Allan Sekula
documenta 12 magazines, 18 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Monika Szewczyk (contributing editor of A Prior, Brussels) in dialogue with Allan Sekula (documenta 12 artist, Los Angeles) on his work for A Prior 15 in the
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Review aushecken – Space for Children and Young People at the documenta 12
documenta 12 art education, 17 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
aushecken / hatching ideas is the title and content of the mediation programme for young visitors to the
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Making the invisible city visible
documenta 12 advisory board, 16 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
The starting point for the advisory board’s initiative "Making the invisible city visible“ is Kassel’s subterranean infrastructure which
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"Second Lives" - the documenta 12 film programme
documenta 12 cinema, 15 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
A lunch lecture dealing with the documenta 12 film programme. Participants will be Alexander Horwath, curator of the film programme and director of
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Ludotek – To hurl oneself into the world - Childhood and empowerment
documenta 12 art education, 14 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Ludotek is a lab of living forms focused on generating immanent/ dialogical situations and places of dissent. Ludotek
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The art of involving: aesthetical-cultural education meets political education
documenta 12 advisory board and art education, 13 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
With the setting up of the documenta 12 advisory board, the documenta has addressed its own
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Working in between systems of power
documenta 12 magazines, 12 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
How can one define one's project in a rapidly shifting context, in an expanding cultural economy that produces new value systems and hierarchies faster than
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Forms of Criticism and documenta
documenta 12 magazines, 11 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
In this documenta criticism is levelled in different forms, the clearest being criticism expressed by many artists, a rather blanketed form can be observed with
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The art of encounter
documenta 12 art education, 10 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
The basic form of the activity in the Laboratory of Creative Education at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw is a ‘pure’ creative workshop that has no other
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Was guckst du? Reloaded - Screening: zwölf 85/Hier mit uns
documenta 12 art education and documenta 12 advisory board, 9 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Was guckst du? Reloaded - Screening: zwölf 85 (1 pm to 1:25 pm)Following a series of lectures and
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The Barber Trial: Sivan vs. Finkielkraut
documenta 12 magazines, 8 September, 1 pm to 4 pm, Kabinett 1
In May 2006, a libel suit filed by Paris-based Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan against French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut was finally brought to court.
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Trisha Brown at documenta 12 – history, media, performance
documenta 12 art education, 7 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
With Trisha Brown’s performances Floor of the forest (1970), Accumulation (1971), the video Roof and fire piece (1973), as well
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Phototherapy and the politics of embodiment: Jo Spence
6 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Rosy Martin, Jo Spence's collaborator in The picture of health (1982-1986), will give a talk on the practice of phototherapy to reflect upon the complexities
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Beyond democracy. A lecture on the censorship of art in central Europe with a focus on Poland
documenta 12 magazines, 5 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
In this lecture by the Polish art historian, Piotr Piotrowski, some censorship practices on art will
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Maps between art and politics
documenta 12 magazines, 4 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
"We map-makers must make a point of demolishing the illusion that there can be an official, universally accepted representation of the world’s political divisions.
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Talking about art at documenta 12
documenta 12 art education, 3 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
The act of talking about art and the language area of the documenta 12, in particular that of the guided tours, are the focus of interest in this project.
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Family Sunday at documenta 12
documenta 12 advisory board/documenta 12 art education/aushecken, 2 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
In the Lunch Lecture cross generational memories of the documenta will be shared. In an open discussion round,
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Atsuko Tanaka and Her Environment – the Position of Women Artists in Japan
documenta 12 magazines, 1 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Haruo Fukuzumi, editor of the Japanese journal AIDA [Between] will talk about the ambivalent position of women in
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Preservation and presentation: You can't teach a new dog old tricks, or can you?
documenta 12 art education, 31 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Continuing after the auditions, rehearsals, and opening days, the performers of Trisha Brown's Accumulation and
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Regendering documenta
documenta 12 magazines, 30 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Roger Buergel referenced as a key starting point for documenta 12, the question 'where does art stand today, where do we stand today?' which was asked by Bode in the 1955
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ExperimentExkursion
documenta 12 advisory board and documenta 12 art education, 29 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
For the past two years, students of geography from the social science faculty of the University of Kassel have been busy developing new
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Whose modernity are we looking at?
documenta 12 magazines, 28 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
How are contemporary artists dealing with artistic languages and formalist approaches developed by the historical avant-garde and in which regards can they be
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Know German II – The dead end of the educational concept and the unknowing teacher
documenta 12 art education, 27 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
“Every five years one of the most important exhibitions of modern and contemporary art takes place in
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Mach-Was-TRäume – appropriation of public urban spaces by citizens
documenta 12 advisory board, 26 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
The initiative Mach-Was-TRäume set out to generate a framework for neighbourhood encounters and creativity on five
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Insularity, insulation, and critical appropriation in Cuba
documenta 12 magazines, 25 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Desiderio Navarro (Criterios, Habana) will discuss the complexities involved in making a magazine that puts into circulation theoretical
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Teenagers in our midst: The Photographers’ Gallery’s projects, talks and work placements with young people/“But will you save lives?” Learning (in the museum) for the 21st century
documenta 12 art education, 24 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
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Danica Dakic: The quest for El Dorado
documenta 12 art education, 23 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
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Seeing at the edge of chance
documenta 12 art education, 22 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
To what extent do explicit physical aspects play a role in the mediation process? What influence do exhibition architecture, the constellation of the group and ones
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Open question time on documenta 12
documenta 12 art education, 21 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Education and intermediation are central conceptual building blocks of documenta 12. However who can predict which questions the public will actually ask of
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On the “Document” in Art Today
documenta 12 magazines, 20 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
That the “document” enters the art space at a time when the world seems to be grappling with visible crises should come as no surprise. The enhanced
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Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954–003064 - A Public Reading
Part of 9 Scripts from a Nation at War, 19 August 2007, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
On 19 August 2007 documenta 12 presented Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954–003064,
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The position of the speaker
documenta 12 magazines, 18 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
The theme for this Lunch Lecture will be the construction and delimitation of a specific figure; the speaking subject. How does this figure emerge through discourse, and
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Yvonne Rainer on her current documenta work
documenta 12 art education, 17 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Yvonne Rainer will speak about her current work, RoS Indexical, which premieres at documenta 12, in relation to her previous choreographies. Dancers
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9 Scripts from a Nation at War
documenta 12 magazines, 16 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Andrea Geyer, Ashley Hunt and Katya Sander in conversation with Simon Sheikh about their current documenta work. 9 Scripts from a Nation at War is a collaborative
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Freedom of art and science
documenta 12 advisory board and documenta 12 art education, 15 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
On August 1st, an arrest warrant was issued against Andrej Holm, sociologist at Humboldt University Berlin. Holm and three other
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The How-To of “Bare Life”: A Story of O.
documenta 12 magazines, 14 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
This is the story of Olga Skorokhodova (1914?-1982), a blind-deaf scholar, educationalist and author, a star of Stalin's cultural revolution.
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‚Image and Education’ - The Lightning Testimonies
documenta 12 art education, 13 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Amar Kanwar spricht über die Produktion von The Lightning Testimonies, Erfahrungen mit dem Publikum, und die Suche nach Sinn in Bildern.
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Salon des Refusés: Crisis of Modernity – Crisis of the Wage Labour Society
documenta 12 magazines, 12 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Presentation of the activities of the documenta 12 advisory board’s Salon des Refusés, focusing on changes in wage
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Taken a fancy? And turned on?
documenta 12 art education, 10 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Groups of people regularly assemble in front of Tseng Yu-Chin’s work, even without taking part in a guided tour. On the basis of Tseng Yu-Chin’s work Who Is
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documenta - views from abroad
documenta 12 art education, 8 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
At the invitation of the German Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut in Kassel, around 40 artists, curators, museum directors and journalists from around the
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Experiments in institutionalism: Reinventing the gallery
documenta 12 art education, 6 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Making museums and galleries accessible does not necessitate their reduction to a medium or forum for educational programmes; rather,
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Queer activism and artistic strategies
documenta 12 art education, 5 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Queer activists from Germany and Poland examine artistic works at the documenta 12, discussing issues of feminism, queer visibility, hetero-sexism, radical
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Groovin' on Time
documenta 12 magazines, 4 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
The psychedelic experience of a spatial expansion of “consciousness” and sense of an interconnected “planetary culture” was widespread among the late-sixties counterculture.
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The Appropriation of Public Space: Open Spaces and Their Sustained Use
documenta 12 advisory board, 3 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
The documenta 12 advisory board’s Mach-Was-Träume initiative sets out to explore Kassel’s unused open spaces, sites
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Render Time
documenta 12 magazines, 2 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
In their role as founders and moderators of Multitudes Online Magazine, the Otolith Group has always understood the typographic space-time of the so-called online magazine to be a
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"dirty and stinking"
documenta 12 art education, 1 August, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Schmutzig und stinkend – “dirty and stinking” – is a mediation programme by Michael Wilhelm and Ulrich Schötker for young people from 12 to 16 years of age. At this
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documenta 12 magazines, 31 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
In his reflection on "bare life" and the figure homo sacer (Latin for “sacred man”), Ronneberger concludes: Modernity produces not only the camps, but also the resistance to them, which is carried forward last
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Talk about "Inhabiting the World"
documenta 12 art education, 30 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Talk with Anne Kersting, Miriam Schiller and Sarah Ventura Inhabiting the World is the title of an experimental format for schoolchildren to work with documenta
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ExperimentExkursion – the central questions of the documenta 12 on location
documenta 12 advisory board, 29 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Within the framework of the Lunch Lecture, the group ExperimentExkursion Kassel will be conducting an excursion
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Luis Jacob
documenta 12 magazines, 28 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
The artist will discuss the context of conceiving and producing this work, with a focus on the question of cultural transmission and education. Afterwards there will be a discussion
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Educational experiences at the Modern Art Museum São Paulo
documenta 12 art education, 27 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Art is a useful medium for developing one’s own position. On the basis of this theory, Patricia Naka, assistant coordinator of the
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Fast and furious collaboration: ad-hocing in the art
documenta 12 magazines, 26 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
A debate and brainstorming by participating magazines and people interested in disappointment. What is collaboration once we objectify that
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“Subtle plot” is a term that Argentinian writer Ernesto Sábato coined to refer to other stories that are not history as we know it. We always like to say half-jokingly that the editors of Valdez don't read the magazine; we know the subject matter of the articles, but
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East Dance Academy
documenta 12 magazines, 24 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
There is no other art form which would be so closely linked to contemporaneity (modern, post-modern, contemporary) and freedom as dance. Dance as an art form has always been
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Supporting and research gallery education
documenta 12 art education, 23 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Jane Sillis, Director of engage, the National Association for Gallery Education, will talk about the work of engage focusing on the findings of enquire,
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The Bergpark as an antique model for the modern-day Disneyland?
documenta 12 advisory board, 22 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
The 'prehistory' of the theme park illustrates, in paradigmatic form, a central question of documenta 12: whether modernity is our
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Publishing the public: Contextualising Locality
documenta 12 magazines, 21 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
In a time when the public sphere is shrinking and “things public” become convoluted with “things privat(ised)”, we would like to approach
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The Palmbook
documenta 12 art education, 20 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
The Palm Book is conceived of as a poetic and visitor-oriented tool for encountering exhibition and museum objects. A small, aesthetically appealing teaching aid, it is intended to
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Processual Aesthetics, Processual Editing: Net-Working
documenta 12 magazines, 19 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Cultural networking has been embodied in different forms through the various nets of independent publishers. We will focus on the aesthetics
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Inhabiting the World
documenta 12 art education, 18 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
As an experimental initiative, documenta 12 has developed a new format in which pupils from local schools will guide adults through the exhibition. While preparing for these
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How to Survive the Paper Industry
documenta 12 magazines, 17 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Ever since ink turned into toner and pixel, printed paper has been struggling to survive as a medium. Yet, stubborn independent editors are still producing the most
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Know German
documenta 12 art education, 16 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
The Know German project challenges postcolonial and antiracist educational practice, addressing the problem whereby education is not emancipatory in effect per se but inevitably acts
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documenta - here with us!
documenta 12 advisory board, 15 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Since 2002 there has been a youth and children’s group network in Kassel. On the occasion of documenta 12, the participating groups and initiatives set out to develop
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Editorial practices and criticality
documenta 12 magazines, 14 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
A discussion on criticality in the current practice of magazine making. How do magazines negotiate their functions as "constructive" platforms and agents
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Open question time on documenta 12
documenta 12 art education, 13 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Education and intermediation are central conceptual building blocks of documenta 12. However who can predict which questions the public will actually ask of
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On curatorial methods: universalist frescoes, grand statements and large exhibitions
documenta 12 magazines, 12 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
A panel discussion with Pablo Lafuente (Afterall/London), Victor Misiano (Moscow Art Magazine, Moscow) and
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Discussion with Simon Wachsmuth
11 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Documenta 12 artist Simon Wachsmuth on his current documenta work.
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Reflecting on the post-communist condition
documenta 12 magazines, 10 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
In this panel discussion on artistic, curatorial and editorial practices, the rapidly changing context of former socialist countries will be analyzed in
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Arrows of desire. A ritual anti-learning experience
documenta 12 art education, 9 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
The enquire group, visiting from the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia will present their work and bring arrows of
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The invisible city – Making the distribution of resources visible
documenta 12 advisory board, 8 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Since early 2006, the documenta 12 advisory board has been investigating the local relevance of the three documenta 12
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The Living Newspaper
documenta 12 magazines, 7 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Following the week of Living Newspaper events, including Silent Symposia, Hawking, Pamphleteering, Migakikko Car-polishing, the House of Truth club-nights, Autocopias, Ph.D
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Tear-off notices
documenta 12 art education, 6 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Tina Oberleitner and Sara Hossein, documenta 12 art educators, employ a range of mediation formats in their guided tours. The tear-off notice has proved to be a highly effective
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Shared, Mobile, Improvised, Underground, Hidden, Floating
documenta 12 magazines, 5 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Continuation of the morning session with Clementine Deliss and Oscar Tuazon, focusing on the themes of the two last issues of Metronome
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Open question time on documenta 12
documenta 12 art education, 4 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Education and intermediation are central conceptual building blocks of documenta 12. However who can predict which questions the public will actually ask of
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Overcoming Loathing
documenta 12 magazines, 3 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
The editors of the New Zealand based magazine Natural Selection will present their latest issue especially conceived for documenta 12 magazines. The issue is on problems and their
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Open question time on documenta 12
documenta 12 art education, 2 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Education and intermediation are central conceptual building blocks of documenta 12. However who can predict which questions the public will actually ask of
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Globalisation, art and politics
documenta 12 advisory board, 1 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Presentation of the results of the project seminar, “Globalisation, art and politics”, conducted over two semesters under the direction of Helen Schwenken.
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On documetaphors
documenta 12 magazines, 30 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Brian Holmes (Paris) im Gespräch mit Sureyyya Evren (Siyahi, Istanbul) über Metaphern der documenta 12 und ihre Diskurse. Sprache: Englisch
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Cooperation in art and culture: when migrants name preconditions
documenta 12 advisory board and art education, 29 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
maiz – the autonomous centre created for and by migrants – was founded in 1994 out of a need to increase
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The future of the regions: Kassel
documenta 12 advisory board, 28 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Hailed as the first architectural project ever launched under the aegis of the documenta, the modern residential estate "documenta urbana", situated on the
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"Bare life" in relation to the twin iconography of terrorism and cloning
documenta 12 magazines, 27 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
A lecture by W. J. T. Mitchell (image theorist, editor in Chief Critical Inquiry/ Chicago) from his unpublished book in
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After Sarkozy
documenta 12 magazines, 26 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Discussion between Yann Moulier Boutang (Multitudes/ Paris) and Maurizio Lazzarato (philosopher/ Paris) This talk will discuss the politicisation of the aesthetic field in the wake of
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“The Empty Conversation”
documenta 12 magazines, 25 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
What impact does a completely empty room, devoid of art and absolutely open, have on the viewer? Can such a void experience its own act of creation – in an
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What is to be done? Education tent!
documenta 12 advisory board, 24 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Presentation of the event series with members of the documena 12 advisory board Theories, practices and attitudes within the education system often fail to
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Relics of the future
documenta 12 magazines, 23 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Under the title Relics of the Future Manray Hsu (Taipei/Berlin), a free-lance curator, and Hu Yuanxing (Hong Kong), editor-in-chief of the magazine Art World, will be
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aushecken
22 June, documenta 12 art education, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
„hatching“ is the name of the education program for young visitors to the documenta 12. Children and young people will be invited to exchange ideas on the exhibition, its works and
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Informal Territories – Fairytale
documenta 12 magazines, 21 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Ai Wei Wei in conversation with Jiang Jun (Urban China/ Shanghai, Guangzhou), Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix (MapOffice/ Hong Kong). With participants of
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Would you like to participate in an artistic experience?
documenta 12 advisory board, 20 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Ricardo Basbaum, members of the documenta 12 advisory board and object-godparents from Kassel Since September 2006, 20 blue-white steel
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Is Modernity our Antiquity?
documenta 12 magazines, 19 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Presentation by Mark Lewis (artist and author) Based on his essay published in the first documenta 12 magazine, Marc Lewis will be discussing the greater and lesser
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What is to be done at the documenta 12?
documenta 12 art education, 18 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Presentation of the documenta 12 education programme by Ulrich Schötker Education is a central concern of the documenta 12. However educating a public
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The art of involvement: the exhibition as local medium
documenta 12 advisory board, 17 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Presentation of the documenta 12 advisory board and discussion between Ayşe Güleç, Wanda Wieczorek and Carmen Mörsch With the
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The documenta 12 Magazine, N°3 Education
documenta 12 magazines, 16 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Presentation of the documenta 12 Magazine n°3 and discussion with contributing authors and editors. Artists educate themselves by working through form and
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