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Academy at de Brakke Grond
Sat 27 Feb - Sun 28 Feb
10:00
De Brakke Grond
Sonic Acts Academy programme 27 & 28 February: Sonic Acts Academy is a new platform that aims to grow, expand, sustain and disseminate stimulating discourse about artistic research. The Sonic Acts Academy will highlight artistic engagement as vital to understanding the complexities of our contemporary world. Over the course of three days, artists will present work that challenges the sterile dichotomy of theory versus practice. Following an open and dynamic format, the Sonic Acts Academy will probe traditional notions of the academy with the aim of positioning art as a unique means of knowledge production, to be shared and expanded upon with future generations.
Sally-Jane Norman: Why an Academy? Justification and Provocation
Saturday 27 February
10:00 - 11:30
De Brakke Grond
Sally-Jane Norman
Justification, because an academy sited outside formal higher education structures might be able to tackle key concerns. Provocation, because effective action means getting beyond issues confronted by educational, cultural, industrial, and military academies for more than two millenaries.
Louis Henderson: “Animism is the only sensible version of materialism”
Saturday 27 February
11:30 - 13:00
De Brakke Grond
Louis Henderson
My research has particularly focused on the problems and potentialities of e-waste in Ghana, voodoo-inspired e-mail scamming practices, histories of decolonial revolutions, connections between neocolonial gold mining and data mining, the colonisation of the space of the Cloud...
Susan Schuppli: Disappearing Evidence: The Mysterious Case of Uranium-235 and other Tales
Saturday 27 February
14:00 - 15:30
De Brakke Grond
Susan Schuppli
This presentation tries to shed light on the various ways in which materials come to matter in my research and artistic practice. Through investigative processes that involve an engagement with technical and scientific modes of inquiry, I try to open up new conceptual pathways into the material strata of our world.
Ewa Justka: Odd DIY Spectacle
Saturday 27 February
16:00 - 17:00
De Brakke Grond
Ewa Justka
Ewa Justka reflects on her current trajectory as a noise and performance artist in an academic research and learning environment. Her approach could best be described as research through making, or learning through performance.
Bill Dietz & Robert The — Maryanne Amacher Archive: Proposed: Creation of a VR Character M.A.
Saturday 27 February
17:00 - 18:00
De Brakke Grond
Robert The (Maryanne Amacher Archive) & Bill Dietz (Maryanne Amacher Archive)
Amacher’s lifelong pursuit of material intelligence, of a practice of ‘listening mind’, stands in timely contradistinction to many of the prevalent dichotomies that populate contemporary sonic discourse.
Heather Davis: The Queer Futurity of Plastic
Sunday 28 February
10:00 - 11:00
De Brakke Grond
Heather Davis
Plastic is often thought of as a malleable material; its metaphorical connotation, plasticity, implies movement and shape shifting. However, plastic is actually one of the most durable compounds on earth and its presence is reshaping the ecosystems that it proliferates within.
#Additivism: An Encounter with The Fluid Outside
Sunday 28 February
11:00 - 12:00
De Brakke Grond
Morehshin Allahyari (#Additivism) & Daniel Rourke (#Additivism)
A talk and Q&A session by Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke about The 3D Additivist Manifesto + The 3D Additivist Cookbook and the artist’s own research and practice in relationship to #Additivism, activism, and critical/poetic approaches to 3D printing.
Ana Vaz: i prefer not to be but to Tupi: the age of the earth
Sunday 28 February
14:30 - 16:00
De Brakke Grond
Ana Vaz
The Work in itself does not exist, there is no whole or wholesomeness, what exists is a series of gestures, a multiplicity of perspectives, an anthropophagic hunger, a savage mode of thinking, a history that is not his and which incarnates itself into a patchwork of materials and re-sources – moving or still, phrased or shot, imprinted or travelling.
Anton Kats: Radio Sound System
Sunday 28 February
16:30 - 17:30
De Brakke Grond
Anton Kats
Artist and researcher Anton Kats’ history with radio is a long one, spanning from his early memories of growing up in Ukraine, to recent projects in Jamaica. During his presentation, Anton will introduce his notion of Narrowcast, a radio format that provides the means to deal with site-specific problems through accessing and distributing useful, everyday knowledge.
