"In order to trigger a process of becoming-imperceptible, quite a transformation needs to take place in what we could call the self. I think the becoming-imperceptible is the point of fusion between the self and his/her habitat, the cosmos as a whole. It marks the point of evanescence of the self and its replacement by a living nexus of multiple inter-connections that empower not the self, but the collective, not identity, but affirmative subjectivity, not consciousness, but affirmative inter-connections.”
— Rosi Braidotti, The Ethics of Becoming Imperceptible
Provoking, testing, debating, playing and running with the theme coined by philosopher Rosi Braidotti – “The Imperceptible Self”; this Transart Triennale will open up spaces for sharing and experiencing creative practices driven by questions of how the peripatetic, nomadic states of contemporary existence negotiate “thresholds of sustainability” via ideas of the subject-in-becoming; ego-less identities; otherness; collective horizons; and the spaces in between.
Fully aware that in these times, our “interaction” with “other” cultures and with nature is both inevitable and profoundly altering; we will stray from preservation in terms of identity politics: shepherding nature and “I” to consider other modes of framing action and existence. How else can we consider the implosion of exiled states; the entropic influx into the largest cities; the sinking of smaller ones; the collapsing distance between us? How to live now in the "eruption of desire for the future which reshapes the present”?
To become imperceptible?
The 2016 New York, Berlin, Barcelona and Manila Transart Triennale events launch Transart Institute's three-year research theme "The Imperceptible Self", acting as a catalyst for related new projects. In 2017, with guest editor Caroline Koebel, Transart will publish a dedicated issue of ELSE journal and proposals for transnational seed projects for NEST (New Experiments with Sharing Terrain) will be called and juried. NEST will culminate in a symposium in 2018.
Cella, MFA + Susie Quillinan, MFA, Chief Curators
TRANSART TRIENNALE BERLIN PROGRAM 2016-18
SATURDAY JULY 30
19:30 - 20:30
Transart Triennale Opening Keynote Address
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
FRIDAY AUGUST 5
THE IMPERCEPTIBLE SELF:
BODIES IN NETWORKS
PERFORMANCE
12:00 - 15:00
Formless Selfies
a performance lab
with Andrea Haenggi (CH/USA)
Studio 12
15:00 - 19:00
Encounters
Studio 14
19:00 – 21:00
Music + Drinks
Courtyard
PROJECTS
15:00 – 21:00
Halcyon
curated by Rachel Dedman (GBR/LEB)
Heishaus
Processed Beings: Intersubjectivity & Authorship
curated by Lou Cantor & William Kherbek (DE)
Studio 3
Minus Ego (Preview)
curated by Herman Mendolicchio (ITA/ESP)
Studio 2
Live Transmission
Morgan O'Hara
Roaming
The Impossible Forest
Jared Gradinger
Courtyard
SCREENINGS
15:00 - 21:00
Studio 12
HOW 2 DO: being other, being real
curated by Gaby Cepeda (MEX)
A Sense of Self
curated by Christine Nippe (DEU)
ReFramed
A Partner Project with the
2016 London Biennale - Manila Pollination
curated by Josephine Turalba (PHL) & Sonia Barrett (JAM/DEU/GBR)
SATURDAY AUGUST 6
THE IMPERCEPTIBLE SELF:
COLLECTIVE TERRITORIES
PERFORMANCE + DIALOGUE
14:00 - 15:00
Processed Beings: Readings
Studio 2
15:00 - 16:30
A Polyphonic Essay
on Intimacy and Distance
curated by Alexandra Ross and
Gayle Meikle (ZA/GBR)
Studio 14
15:30 - 16:30
Making of Siren
Studio 3
17:00 - 18:00
Zones of Sensitivity
curated by Ladan Yalzadeh (USA/IRN)
Studio 2
18:00 - 20:00
Spacebodies II
a performance series
curated by Andrea Spaziani (CAN)
Studio 14
20:00 – 22:00
Music + Drinks
Courtyard
PROJECTS
15:00 – 21:00
Halcyon
Curated by Rachel Dedman (GBR/LEB)
Heishaus
Processed Beings: Intersubjectivity & Authorship
curated by Lou Cantor & William Kherbek (DE)
Studio 3
Minus Ego (Preview)
Curated by Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio (ITA/ESP)
Studio 2
Live Transmission
Morgan O'Hara
Roaming
The Impossible Forest
Jared Gradinger
Courtyard
SCREENINGS
15:00 - 21:00
Studio 12
HOW 2 DO: being other, being real
curated by Gaby Cepeda (MEX)
A Sense of Self
curated by Christine Nippe (DEU)
ReFramed
A Partner Project with the
2016 London Biennale - Manila Pollination
curated by Josephine Turalba (PHL) & Sonia Barrett (JAM/DEU/GBR)
SUNDAY AUGUST 7
THE IMPERCEPTIBLE SELF:
KNOWLEDGE ECOLOGIES
SYMPOSIUM
Studio 14
12:30 – 13:00
Curator Presentation:
Alexandra Ross and Gayle Meikle
13:00 – 14:00
Panel Discussion: Liminal Existence
Andrea Haenggi, Sonia Barrett, Alexandra Ross, Gayle Meikle, and Ladan Yalzadeh
Moderated by Elena Marchevska
14:00 – 14:30
Artist Talk
by Morgan O'Hara
15:00 – 16:00
Panel Discussion: Flux and Becoming: Identity, Self, Love, Other
Gaby Cepeda, Rachel Dedman & Andrea Spaziani
Moderated by Ruth Novaczek
16:00 – 17:00
Panel Discussion: Processed Bodies
Moderated by Lou Cantor & William Kherbek
17:00 - 18:00
Halcyon: Readings and Discussion
Heishaus
17:30 – 19:00
Music + Drinks
Courtyard
PROJECTS
13:00 – 18:00
Halcyon
Curated by Rachel Dedman (GBR/LEB)
Heishaus
Processed Beings: Intersubjectivity & Authorship
curated by Lou Cantor & William Kherbek (DE)
Studio 3
Live Transmission
Morgan O'Hara
Roaming
The Impossible Forest
Jared Gradinger
Courtyard
SCREENINGS
12:00 - 18:00
Studio 12
HOW 2 DO: being other, being real
curated by Gaby Cepeda (MEX)
A Sense of Self
curated by Christine Nippe (DEU)
ReFramed
A Partner Project with the
2016 London Biennale - Manila Pollination
curated by Josephine Turalba (PHL) & Sonia Barrett (JAM/DEU/GBR)
