ART AS MULTISPECIES ENTANGLEMENT A CONVERSATION WITH EBEN KIRKSEY ABOUT THE MULTISPECIES SALON by Anna-Sophie Springer Eben Kirksey is an ethnographer, curator, and artist and a permanent faculty member in Environmental Humanities at the University of New South Wales…
READ MORE AND COMMENTHello there, And, welcome to the newly selected group! As a SYNAPSE member since the last gathering in 2013, I am very pleased to have been invited by the HKW to contribute a series of blog posts in the months surrounding…
READ MORE AND COMMENTA CAT IS A LION IN A JUNGLE OF SMALL BUSHES Essay by Anna-Sophie Springer It’s a sticky, humid night in Jakarta where I am spending February and half of March, both to prepare our upcoming exhibition 125,660 Specimens…
READ MORE AND COMMENTDOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH Fantasies of the Library and Land & Animal and & Nonanimal intercalations: paginated exhibition series 1 and 2 Anna-Sophie Springer in Conversation with Dian Ina and Farah Wardani Tuesday March 3rd 2015 ruangrupa Jalan Tebet Timur…
READ MORE AND COMMENTCALL FOR ARTISTS Komunitas Salihara, Jakarta, invites artists to propose projects for the upcoming exhibition 125,660 Specimens of Natural History, premiering at the Gallery in mid-August 2015. The call seeks proposals responding to landscape change in the Indonesian archipelago since…
READ MORE AND COMMENTHaus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and Schering Stiftung invite up-and-coming curators to apply to take part in the third workshop held by SYNAPSE – The International Curators’ Network. This third workshop will focus on modes of interaction between science and art, with a special thematic emphasis on “Ape Culture” and the human/animal relationship. Among other questions, it will address how scientific topics and methodologies can be approached by curators…
READ MORE AND COMMENTFollowing two successful editions of SYNAPSE – The International Curators’ Network at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) – we are pleased to announce the third round of SYNAPSE. The Curators’ Workshop 2015 (30 June – 4 July 2015) will be held in the context of the thematic focus “Ape Culture – Kultur der Affen” at HKW.
READ MORE AND COMMENTIn the peak of summer, The Barber Shop invites you to an intensive programme dedicated to the investigation of geophilosophy and processes of mattering. By inquiring into how matter functions as a time capsule or a black box, this programme reflects…
READ MORE AND COMMENTThe intercalations: a paginated exhibition series is conceived as a curatorial-editorial space to both host and critically reflect on the collaborations among members and affiliates of SYNAPSE – The International Curators’ Network of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin while enabling explorations of…
READ MORE AND COMMENTOn March 14, 2014 Synapse curators Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin shared some of their research and curatorial strategies for the upcoming exhibition 125,660 Specimens of Natural History at the Collecting Geographies conference organized by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Moderna…
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