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book as an object of potential history

by Abdelrahman Elbashir

Based on his work in the course Art-Based Investigation (convened by Milica Tomić during this winter semester), he has developed a mode of exhibiting for Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s book Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism. His proposal stems from and is deeply engaged with the core messages of the book itself. This exhibition asks us to think critically about the institutions that have been appropriating cultural artefacts and sealing them in glass vitrines. It also proposes to view the book itself as an object of potential history.

Elbashir writes: “The book as an object of potential history, thus, does not derive its value from its singular physical being. The value lies in this reading of history, a process necessary to unlearn this institutional fixation. In this framework, this modality is exhibiting the book through its reading.”

book as an object of potential history

HOW ON EARTH?! Exhibition within the 59th October Salon

book as an object of potential history

Atoms at Work. On Art-based Research as Praxis

book as an object of potential history

WORLD-MAKING: ABOLITION GEOGRAPHY

book as an object of potential history

Listen to Dreams in Strange Colors. Film as Architectural practice

book as an object of potential history

Lessons In Darkness, Silver Salts and the Lightest Metal

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The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House. Forms of Feminist Praxis

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When The Dust Unsettles

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IZK Research Days

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Curatorial Design:
A Place Between
2017-2021

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The Incomputable
2019-2021

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Open Modes Graz
2014-2018

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Knowledge Forms

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The Living Archive: On Collecting, Classifying and Remembering in Contemporary Art

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Life Drawing

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Lieber Maler, male mir… Conditions of Commissioning in Contemporary Art

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Scientific Image: Revealing the Work of Art

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Politics of Exposure: Common Research, Public Investigation

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The Recondite Archive: In Search of a Form that Speaks

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Artistic Interventions in Public Space

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Conference: Knowledge Forms and Forming Knowledge

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Awaiting Reininghaus

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ENCOUNTERS

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Live Action: Creating Roles in Speculative Environments

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Visual and Sonic Practice

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From Roundabout to the Round Table

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New Graz Dinner Party

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WALKING: A CRITICAL INQUIRY

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The Architecture of the Inhuman. A dialogue with machines

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EXHIBITING AS A RESEARCH METHOD

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Let's Build a Library Together!
Workshop 2

TU Research Hub: Workshop 0.1.

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A Critical Construction Report, Graz 2017

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SANS SOUCI:
FOUR FACES OF OMARSKA

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Exhibiting as a Research Practice, A Case Study

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Returns of Knowledge(s)

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Unlearning Classroom

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WAS WIR TUN, Camera Austria: an Investigation into the Institution

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Let's Build a Library together with Grazer Kunstverein

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into the Herbst archives

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The Imaginary School

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(un)learning spaces

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TAKE THE PLACE WITH YOU

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A hidden abode of art production

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Returns of Knowledge(s): How Research Makes an Exhibition

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Sans Souci Exhibition - Malta Festival Poznan

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Unlearning Classroom

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ARCHIVES OF NATIONAL SOCIALIST PLANNING

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Workshop 2

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Sites of Labour - Master Studio

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Display Dark Energy

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what keeps the “friendly alien” alive? on maintenance and management of kunsthaus graz

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From Performance to Video and Then Back Again: How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare

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Digital Worker: Witnesses of a transformation

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'Matters of Facts'
The Orthogonal Methods Group

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Engineering Fictions #3.18:
Computer Says No
by Jessica Foley

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Diagram Reading Group
by Dennis McNulty

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Logic Gate Session
by Tom O’Dea

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ORIENTATIONS - Screening Program by Dennis McNulty, Bea McMahon and aemi

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Central Perspectives, lecture by Bas Princen

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Unlearning Black Pete (and other states of coloniality), lecture by Annette Krauss

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'Matters of Facts'
The Orthogonal Methods Group
in Conversation with
Dejan Markovic

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“Hot Iron” and “Hot Iron Marginalia”, lecture by Adrià Julià

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HAUNTINGS IN THE ARCHIVE!, Screening and Q&A with Julia Wieger

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A walk through the Zoo, lecture by Andrea Palašti

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Tiny Objects of Survival, Lecture by Petar Milat

The Ethics of Plumbing, Ines Weizman in Conversation with Milica Tomic and Dubravka Sekulic

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The Artistic Life of the Pioneer Plaque: The Exposure of Universal Humans, Spacecraft as Gallery, Cordially Meeting the Others… - Lecture by Jelena Vesic

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The Open Secret of Exhibitions, Lecture by Vincent Normand

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The City and the City, Course

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Returns of Knowledge(s) - exhibition

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Linguistic Landscapes and Ideological Horizons

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Pedagogy, Playgrounds and Pavilions by Nils Norman

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Hidden Curriculum, and other ways of hiding in plain sight

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Architectural Environment-Worlds, lecture by Hélène Frichot

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Exhibiting the Thing: A short history of thinking about the modes of display

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Beyond Socialist Modernism - “New Artistic Practice” in Yugoslavia in the Sixties and the Seventies

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Sans Souci / Exhibition Opening & Performance

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After the Post Internet & the Winter of AI

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TRIAL MODE 2: BUILDING SYNERGIES

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Unterwassergemurmel -
The Murmur of the Underworld.
Discussion about the artwork

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Detroit Resists and Architecture in Resistance

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Black and Blight, lecture by Andrew Herscher

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DOPUST/DAYS OF OPEN PERFORMANCE

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Memory of the World / Public Library

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(Re)Naming Working Session 01

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Violence at the Threshold of Detectability

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Jochen Gerz – Working with the Public

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Learning from Leaving Las Vegas

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Public Session – The Recondite Archive. In Search of the Form that Speaks

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Dieter Roth – Július Koller.
Distant Proximities?

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Lecture: Returns of Knowledge

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Film Screening: Alpi

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Daniel Wetzel/Rimini Protokoll
One Archive: One document

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Andrew Herscher
Humanitarian’s Housing Question

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Presentation: The Mother of All Nodal Points

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Workshop: In or Out of the Archive?

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Andrew Herscher – The Counter-Monument

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Workshop: The Appearance of That which Cannot be Seen

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Andrew Herscher
From the Politics of Memory to the Memory of Politics

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Open Working Session: Limits and Horizons of Transdisciplinary Art-Based Research

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Exhibition: The Living Archive

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Unknown Avant-Garde, Lecture by Anna Artaker

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Counter Memory and Publicness

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Across Disciplines: Visual and Sonic Practice

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The Space of Art: Challenge of transdisciplinary knowledge production

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The Means of Art. Spatial thinking and desire to create

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In the Ruins of Deregulation

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22520 Standards. – questions on economization in creative production procedures. 

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FARBENLEHRE: What Color Is the Sacred?

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A thing called Nature

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Exhibition: In the Ruins of Deregulation - Thinking with Cinema Balkan

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What Keeps You Awake? Urgency in Life and Art

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Life of Crops: Towards an Investigative Memorialization

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UMBRUCH. When objects are called to tell stories

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SAY IT WITH A VIDEO

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Documenting Transformation

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Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad

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Death Drives and Coin Test China High-Speed Rail Videos, lecture performance by Ho Rui An

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Landscapes of Post-History, lecture by Ross Exo Adams

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Komuna Fundamento

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Body Luggage

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From the Object to the Thing

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What is Photography?

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Take the Place with you - Public Presentation and Discussion

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Sommerfest - Graz Open Architecture 18

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Reading Capital

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Sommerfest - Graz Open Architecture 19

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WHAT KEEPS YOU AWAKE? Urgency in Life and Art

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Prehistory of a Museum of Capitalism

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FARBENLEHRE: What Color Is the Sacred?

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The Sublime Landscape and its Relation to Labour

book as an object of potential history

On Stones, Plants, and Tools: the image of a resource

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Exhibiting the Thing: A short history of thinking about the modes of display

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Study Assistants

Sommerfest

Summer Fest 2020

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Sans Souci- at Remembering Landscape

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Sans Souci - Remembering Landscape

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Performance Now: „I don’t think I am trying to commit suicide“

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Post-Yugoslav Generation at the Unidentified Grave of “Yugoslavia”

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What can the property relations tell us about the city?

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Private Property, Privatisation and Other Crimes

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project House of Open Gates/ Narratives from the Arrival City. Steirischer Herbst 2016

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Exhibiting Matters - Exploring Other Formats

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Exhibiting Matters - Triangulation

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Memorial in Becoming

book as an object of potential history

Exhibiting Matters - Exploring Other Formats

book as an object of potential history

Exhibiting Matters - Triangulation

book as an object of potential history

IZK Artist Talk Series

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IZK Theory Lecture Series

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VIDEO ESSAY - a video literacy

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Nothing Easier Than to Imagine a Four-Dimensional Cube!

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The (Ultimate) Norm and Its Relation to Colour Balance, Image Technologies and Cognitive Equity

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Objects of History

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Thresholds of Opacity and Legibility: Manifesting, Redefining and Eroding Forms

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Mind the Gap - Award for Philipp Sattler

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Annenstraße 53: Making Teaching Public

Un-Documented – Unlearning Imperial Plunder

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Four Faces of Omarska: Open Video Sequence

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Invitation: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay and Wayne Modest at Annenstrasse 53,

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IZK I Lecture Series: Constructing Non-Alignment, a lecture by Dubravka Sekulić

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Digging Deeper

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Epistemic Injustice

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Infrastructures of Unlearning: Investigating the Futures Past

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HOME WORK. On Artistic Practice During the Plague Years

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Unlearning Photography

book as an object of potential history

Trembling Streets: Investigative Materialities in an Apocalyptic World

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Flowers (Not) Worthy of Paradise

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Incarceratedly Yours

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Through the Looking Glass, the Realities We Found There

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book as an object of potential history

Job Vacancy: Study Assistants

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Nina Valerie Kolowratnik - The Language of Secret Proof: Indigenous Truth and Representation

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David Frohnapfel - Alleviative Objects: Solidarity & Conflict in the Art World of Port-au-Prince

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The European Dream

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Secret Proof

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Poetics of Unlearning

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Marcell Mars - Distributed Resources versus Distributed Tech

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Trembling Streets - A Guided Tour

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Semmering - Land, Property, and Commons

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Call for Papers: Incomputable Earth—Digital Technologies and the Anthropocene

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FILMS FOR A FREE PALESTINE

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Why Have There Been No Great Women Architects?

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REPAIR

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Questions from an architect who reads. A students’ inquiry!

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Cloud Seeds

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Lecture - Łukasz Stanek, From Eastern Europe to Africa: Women Architects in the Global Cold War

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am i actually an architect? new models of architecting

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REPAIR Lectures

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PhD Day 2022

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The writing on the wall destroyed

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Tracing Aflenz. A Topography of Procedures

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Fragments As Method

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Rehearsals

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Life of Crops: Soil as Archive

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Visual Cacophony: Photography as a Designing Device

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Art Documentation in the Age of Digital Media

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Photography as a Document

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Revealing the Work of Art

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Bordering Forms

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Annenstrasse 53, Sequence 5: Free Cinema

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Colonial Impositions and Their Non-Effects: The Problem of French Domestic Norms and Forms in Colonized Algeria

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Samia Henni at IZK

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Annenstrasse 53, Exhibition: Art Documentation in the Age of Digital Media

book as an object of potential history

LOADING TERMINAL - Poetry reading and conversation

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Curatorial Design: A Place Between, Public Conference at the Canadian Centre for Architecture Montréal

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In Search of Movement

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Another World, Another Aesthetics

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How Does One Get to Own a Mountain?

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The Measure of Land

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Time Crystals, Rock, Stone and Mud

book as an object of potential history

The Fourth Wall (To Build a Home)

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Branislav Dimitrijević - Indeterminate Certainty, Determinate Uncertainty: Robert Smithson and the Geological Turn

book as an object of potential history

How Does One Get to Own a Mountain? Fieldwork public programme

book as an object of potential history

Marina Vishmidt - Entropy and Atrophy: Non-Identity in Non-Essential Infrastructure

book as an object of potential history

Gender Taskforce: Women Architects in the Global Cold War

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Jackqueline Frost, The Rumor of the Earth: Nuclear Imperialism and Caribbean Ecology

book as an object of potential history

Course HOW DOES ONE GET TO OWN A MOUNTAIN?

book as an object of potential history

Course TIME CRYSTALS, ROCK, STONE AND MUD

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