Aperó Talk with Mirsini Artakianou, Michal Fuchs, Katharina Gahlert

(Im)Material Encounters: Light as thread, heavy as clay

How can the absence of matter and mass be represented in space? Mirsini Artakianou talks about the importance of repetition and rhythm during the process of creating her installations, as well as the translation of physical observations in different and contrasting materials.

Where does a country begin? Of migration(s) and identity(ies).

What meaning and relevance do land and roots have for people who (have to) redefine their own identity through migration? Michal Fuchs talks about actual and metaphorical roots, cultural belonging of people and plants as well as on floating identities.

In Touch we exist _ Points of contact between man and matter.

Where do real and metaphorical points of contact become visible between seemingly separate existing systems and organisms? Katharina Gahlert talks about encounters and boundaries between animate and inanimate matter in times of the Anthropocene and explores the question of materiality in her work.