The Central Round Table of the GDR
Open Workshops: 23 and 24 July 2010
Based on her artistic and auto-biographical research into the events of 1989/1990 in East Germany, Elske Rosenfeld (artist and author, DE) develops a public workshop that uses the transcripts of the Central Round Table of the GDR to discuss the specific moments of founding, legitimation, institutionalization and delegation from the history of this short-lived political institution.
Guided Tour through the exhibition “Faculty of Invisibility: Assembly”
with the curators Sönke Hallmann and Inga Zimprich
Wednesday 21 July 2010, 6pm
Faculty of Invisibility: Versammlung
16, 17, 18 July 2010, at the opening times and at 8pm
Like the exhibition, the series of public events examines formats of assembly. The Faculty of Invisibility convenes with Benjamin Cölle (cultural theorist and filmmaker, DE), Laurie Cohen (historian, AT), Maaike Engelen (psychotherapist, UK), Jeanne van Heeswijk (artist, NL), Ingela Johansson (artist, SE), Dagmar Reichert (researcher, CH), Darren Rhymes (artist, UK), Johan Siebers (philosopher, UK) et al to address institutional experiences within the different work fields of the participants.
It is a tradition of Shedhalle association to host one annual guestproject. This year the board of Shedhalle has selected the curatorial team of Faculty of Invisibility and is happy to present them and their project:
Shedhalle Guest Project “Faculty of Invisibility: Assembly”
Opening: 9 July 2010 7pm, 8pm concert by Singer/Songwriter Clemence Freschard
Exhibition: 10 July – 8 August 2010
Curated by Sönke Hallmann and Inga Zimprich
With Benjamin Cölle, Laurie Cohen, Maaike Engelen, Clemence Freschard, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Ingela Johansson, Achim Lengerer, M7red (Mauricio Corberlan, Pio Torroja),p-r-o-x-y, Dagmar Reichert, Darren Rhymes, Jan Rolletschek, Elske Rosenfeld, Simone Schardt, Johan Siebers, Tanja Widmann and others
Loans by Robert Havemann Gesellschaft, Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis der Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Design by Maartje Dros, Francois Lombarts
Department of Reading: Mass, Movement, Image
Open Events: 30 July and 1 August 2010, 2 – 6pm
(participation also online at www.reading.department.cc)
The Department of Reading follows traces of text and image emerging in this exhibition project. It questions the production of images of the discursive and it works along lines of concepts of mass and movement. With Helmut Draxler (theoretician and curator, DE, tbc), Achim Lengerer (artist, DE), p-r-o-x-y (CH), Jan Rolletschek (theoretician, DE), Johan Siebers (philosopher, UK) und Tanja Widmann (artist, AT).
