With Charmaine Poh, Feng You, Park Hye-in and Yan Lin (Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research)
Established in 2021, AFSAR, the Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research, serves as a dynamic platform that embraces a diverse range of cultural practices rooted in feminism, encompassing contemporary art, research, activism, and community engagement. The prefix ‘Asian’ within AFSAR goes beyond national boundaries, fostering diverse conversations and idea-sharing among individuals from various parts of Asia. AFSAR’s collaborative formats involve studying, reading, watching, and working together, creating an environment conducive to collective exploration.
As part of AFSAR’s collective study project centered around rethinking technology, Charmaine, You, Hye-in, and Lin engaged in collective readings of books by Hong Kong philosopher Yuk Hui. This exploration led to the development of the concept of cosmotechnics, questioning technological singularity and embracing technodiversity. This fundamental idea challenges universal and hierarchical perspectives on technology, the world, and the cosmos, emphasizing their interconnectedness with different localities.
In the talk […]
With Johanna Brummack (artist and mediator)
This dialogical tour approaches the exhibition A Home for Something Unknown (March 2 – April 28, 2024 at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and Haus am Lützowplatz) through a questioning stance. How do we perceive the different works on display? What physical reactions do they evoke? Where do associations and connections arise? What remains untied or defies categorizations?
The tour will focus on those artists participating in the exhibition who deal with fragments, gaps, and system errors. The feeling of disruption will be used as an opportunity to examine one’s own position, to look from a different direction, or to listen with new ears.
While the group will actually go from A to B (from work to work), the joint conversation will move in as many directions as possible. Together, the group will weave a web of different perspectives and draw connections to everyday matters. Answers can be found, connections can be made […]