Promise No Promises!

The two days Symposium “Women in Space” at the Art Institute HGK FHNW in Basel thematized the roles of scale, space and power in envisioning women in the art system: Space is an issue for everyone, yet, it has specific resonance for those who make exhibitions and run institutions, and for women in general. How we move through space, how we claim it, how we narrate and thematize it, how we fund it, how we labor in it, how we construct and deconstruct it. In this episode Chus Martinez & Quinn Latimer are in conversation with iLiana Fokianaki, Claire Hoffmann, Mareike Dittmer.

Sonia Fernández Pan in conversation with artist Ania Nowak about the intimate connection between feeling and thinking, different forms and manifestations of love, as well the ambiguity of care, the situation of women in performing arts, and female bodies where illness and disease could also be a social symptom and not only a personal condition.

This episode is based on the Symposium on feminism, witches, art and pedagogy, around the exhibition of Doris Stauffer at Centre culturel Suisse in Paris in April 2019. The symposium at Centre culturel Suisse gave the opportunity to contextualize Doris Stauffer within a contemporary discourse, to discuss notions of radical pedagogy, the re-appearance of the figure of the witch in contemporary art and to look into women-networks and movements then and today. The second roundtable on women networks and the women movement in Switzerland focused on collaborative projects. The guests speakers are Bice Curiger, Mara Züst and Simone Koller, moderated by Claire Hoffmann.

This episode is based on the Symposium on feminism, witches, art and pedagogy, around the exhibition of Doris Stauffer at Centre culturel Suisse in Paris in April 2019. The symposium at Centre culturel Suisse gave the opportunity to contextualize Doris Stauffer within a contemporary discourse, to discuss notions of radical pedagogy, the re-appearance of the figure of the witch in contemporary art and to look into women-networks and movements then and today. The first roundtable on the figure of the witch in feminist movements and its return in contemporary art presented two exhibition projects on the topic. The guests speakers are Caroline Cournède and Daniela Brugger, moderated by Anna Colin.

This episode is based on the Symposium on feminism, witches, art and pedagogy, around the exhibition of Doris Stauffer at Centre culturel Suisse in Paris in April 2019. The symposium at Centre culturel Suisse gave the opportunity to contextualize Doris Stauffer within a contemporary discourse, to discuss notions of radical pedagogy, the re-appearance of the figure of the witch in contemporary art and to look into women-networks and movements then and today. The third roundtable on radical pedagogy as feminist methodology addressed the practice of Doris Stauffer and gave insides into her experimental pedogogy at the school F +F in Zurich. The guests are Anna Colin, Chantal Küng and Michael Hiltbrunner. Moderation Hanna Alkema.

Sonia Fernández Pan in conversation with artist Siegmar Zacharias about co-authorship with non-humans, the function of the audience and the production of affective and experiential knowledge.  

Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer reflecting on ideal working conditions and the use of language

Selina Grüter & Michèle Graf, Miriam Laura Leonardi, Hannah Weinberger in conversation with Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer

Camille Aleña, Stefanie Hessler, Elise Lammer, Nora Berman (from the audience) in conversation with Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer  

Katharina Brandl, Emilie Ding, Alexandra Navratil, Axelle Stiefel in conversation with Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer

Mareike Dittmer, Stefanie Hessler, Natascha Sadr Haghighian in conversation with Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer