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You are cordially invited to join the second edition of the Making Matters symposium, which will take place online on Thursday 19, Friday 20 and Saturday 21 November 2020 in collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.

This online symposium brings together international representatives of collective material practices who experiment with their material manifestations to critique and reimagine the world(s) we inhabit.

Confirmed participants: Aliens in Green, a.pass, Display Distribute, Eleni Kamma, Ensad Lab, Feral Atlas, Garnet Hertz, Jatiwangi Art Factory, The Otolith Group, Olu Taiwo, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Kate Rich and the work group Material Practices (Leiden University, Willem de Kooning Academy, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Waag Society, West Den Haag and associated researchers Anja Groten, Pia Louwerens and Dani Ploeger)

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MAKING MATTERS
The three day conference Making Matters, is organized by the workgroup Material Practices (formerly known as Critical Making). Recent years have seen the emergence of a new kind of collective material practices that transgress the classical opposition between theory and practice, or thinking and making. These practices actively engage with our catastrophic times and yield collaborations that connect cultural, technological and more-than-human concerns. They show a potential to develop a comprehensive approach to art, science and technologies, driven by the necessity to fundamentally reimagine the relationship of humans to the world.

The conference brings together practitioners from various backgrounds and disciplines such as artistic research, experimental publishing, visual art, business and performance. These practitioners will share their work in which thinking and making are entangled, and will discuss the critical potential that this entanglement entails.

Through online workshops and presentations, the contributors invite a broad audience of artists, activists, teachers, theorists, students, designers, etherpads and other non-humans, to engage with diverse subjects such as alternative economies, feral ecologies, shared authorship, xeno-biologies, pedagogies, publishing infrastructures and radical collectivities.

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Presentations: free registration
Workshops: 2,50 euro per registration

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More information about the programme here

PROGRAMME

Thursday 19 November, 2020

Public presentations:
12.00-12.30 Introduction by Workgroup Material Practices
12.30-13.15 West Den Haag: Akiem Helmling & Baruch Gottlieb, Collecting Collectively + conversation
13.15-14.00 Het Nieuwe Instituut: Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Zoöp + conversation

Break

14.15-15.00 Eleni Kamma, Making public time: speaking one’s mind on Etherpad + conversation
15.00-15.45 Garnet Hertz, Critical Making + conversation

Break

Parallel workshops (limited number of participants):
16.00-16.30 Anja Groten, Eleni Kamma, Pia Louwerens, Public Time: Etherpad Session I
16.00-17.00 Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, The practice of zoönomy

1-on-1 consultations (limited number of participants):
20.00-23.00 Kate Rich, Feral business clinic

Friday 20 November, 2020

Parallel workshops (limited number of participants):
11.00-12.00 Olu Taiwo, Embodying the Return Beat: An introduction to a metaphysical experience of West African Rhythm (part 1)
10.00-12.00 Aliens in Green, Learning to live in a toxic world: a xenopolitic of your domestic landscape (part 1 of 2)

Public presentations:
12.30-13.15 Jatiwangi Art Factory, Tanah and Subjectivity + conversation
13.15-14.00 Otolith Group, Infinity minus Infinity + conversation

Break

14.15-15.00 Jeanne van Heeswijk, How we have been preparing for the not-yet + conversation
15.00-15.45 Feral Atlas, Introduction to Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene + conversation

Break

Parallel workshops (limited number of participants):
16.00-16.30 Anja Groten, Eleni Kamma, Pia Louwerens, Public Time: Etherpad Session II
16.00-16.30 Feral Atlas, Feral Atlas as a Verb (part 1 of 2)
16.00-17.00 The Otolith Group, ZONE 2

1-on-1 consultations (limited number of participants):
9.00-11.00 Kate Rich, Feral business clinic
20.00-23.00 Kate Rich, Feral business clinic

Saturday 21 November, 2020
Parallel workshops (limited number of participants):
10.00-12.00 Jatiwangi Art Factory, Tanah and Subjectivity
10.00-12.00 Jeanne van Heeswijk, How we have been preparing for the not-yet
10.00-12.00 Aliens in Green, Learning to live in a toxic world: a xenopolitic of your domestic landscape (part 2 of 2)

Public presentations:
12.30-13.15 Display Distribute, Packaging as Propaganda: On circulation, new psychogeographies, and the discursiveness of boxes + conversation
13.15-14.00 a.pass, On Scores and Spaces of Performative Publishing + conversation

Break

14.15-15.00 Ensad Lab, Weaving Gardens. A cross-investigation between art and anthropology + conversation
15.00-15.45 Garnet Hertz, Do It Yourself + conversation

Break

Parallel workshops (limited number of participants):
16.00-17.00 Feral Atlas, Feral Atlas as a Verb (part 2 of 2)
16.00-18.00 Olu Taiwo, Embodying the Return Beat: An introduction to a metaphysical experience of West African Rhythm (part 2)
16.00-16.30 Anja Groten, Eleni Kamma, Pia Louwerens, Public Time: Etherpad Session III

1-on-1 consultations (limited number of participants):
20.00-23.00 Kate Rich, Feral business clinic