SEEN BY #7: MOLES

Exhibition: 25 November 2016 – 8 January 2017
Opening: Thursday, 24 November, 7pm

“Moles” is the seventh issue of the ongoing exhibition series "Seen By", a collaboration between the Universität der Künste Berlin and the Staatliche Museen's Kunstbibliothek at the Museum für Fotografie, introduced to challenge curatorial and artistic strategies for working with photography in contemporary art.

“infection is necessary to complexity, a friend once said. the habitat for this experiment may well be hostile.
Heyy i re-wrote a bit in a new version, what do you guys think?

it's great ! thanks!! the term "Kinship" though, is it connotated with "blood family"? i only know it from a donna haraway or octavia butler context, so to me it has a different connotation. smth like "family" would be more in line with "gay-as-in-happy" and "FRIENDS"?

ah yes but i was thinking it is interesting how the value of this term is arbitrary, just as "friend", "kinship" is a very vague term that has different connotations depending on how its used and who is using it, like it could have the bio-connotation, but it can just as well have the more social one.

to me the kinship thing is more a space thing. tentacular, lived along lines, not spheres. like, we are familiar with wires and witchcraft. we are reaching for roots and routes. we are contagious nets and networks that critter in and out of clouds.

I'm mostly interested in the so-called "natural" legitimization in terms of how a certain kind of kinship is protected by national state, how it is part of building a national citizenship; but kinship is antagonistic, complementary and it definitely always is ambivalent.

who the hell knows
you’re smart mister shakespeare
to go straight ahead is scary
to go back is embarrassing
so you gave yourself a command
fear has made you come to your senses

insert bombastic story of future utopia, the ocean had its way and very little remains, things are simpler there. boom.”

Seen By #7: Moles” has been ideated and produced with and by Carl Berzow, Mania Godarzani-Bakhtiari, Isabel Gatzke, Max Göran, Annika Högner, Elias Johansson, Ekaterina Reinbold, Carolina Soares, Michel Wagenschütz and curator Egija Inzule. Besides studying at UdK participants are involved in various groups and organizations such as D.U.M.P., hec, HellFun, Interflugs, Institut S 3000, No play, Raumerweiterungshalle, Roda/Born, UdK Fachschaftsräte and others.

SEEN BY #7: MOLES

Ausstellung: 25. November 2016 bis 8. Januar 2017
Eröffnung: Donnerstag, 24. November, 19 Uhr

"Moles" ist die siebte Ausgabe der Ausstellungsreihe "Seen By", eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Universität der Künste Berlin und der Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin im Museum für Fotografie, mit dem Ziel kuratorische und künstlerische Strategien im Umgang mit zeitgenössischer Fotografie neu zu denken.

“infection is necessary to complexity, a friend once said. the habitat for this experiment may well be hostile.
Heyy i re-wrote a bit in a new version, what do you guys think?

it's great ! thanks!! the term "Kinship" though, is it connotated with "blood family"? i only know it from a donna haraway or octavia butler context, so to me it has a different connotation. smth like "family" would be more in line with "gay-as-in-happy" and "FRIENDS"?

ah yes but i was thinking it is interesting how the value of this term is arbitrary, just as "friend", "kinship" is a very vague term that has different connotations depending on how its used and who is using it, like it could have the bio-connotation, but it can just as well have the more social one.

to me the kinship thing is more a space thing. tentacular, lived along lines, not spheres. like, we are familiar with wires and witchcraft. we are reaching for roots and routes. we are contagious nets and networks that critter in and out of clouds.

I'm mostly interested in the so-called "natural" legitimization in terms of how a certain kind of kinship is protected by national state, how it is part of building a national citizenship; but kinship is antagonistic, complementary and it definitely always is ambivalent.

who the hell knows
you’re smart mister shakespeare
to go straight ahead is scary
to go back is embarrassing
so you gave yourself a command
fear has made you come to your senses

insert bombastic story of future utopia, the ocean had its way and very little remains, things are simpler there. boom.”

"Seen By #7: Moles" wird konzipiert und produziert von und mit Carl Berzow, Mania Godarzani-Bakhtiari, Isabel Gatzke, Max Göran, Annika Högner, Elias Johansson, Ekaterina Reinbold, Carolina Soares, Michel Wagenschütz und der Kuratorin Egija Inzule. Neben ihrem Studium an der Universität der Künste sind die Teilnehmer_innen involviert in so vielfältigen Gruppen und Organisationen wie D.U.M.P., hec, HellFun, Interflugs, Institut S 3000, No play, Roda/Born, Raumerweiterungshalle, UdK Fachschaftsräte und anderen.