OPEN LECTURES: NOVEMBER 13th TO 16th 2007

In the evenings, the programme of CROSSKICK ACADEMY BERLIN will be open and held at various institutions where we will be hosting guests and lectures related to our workshops. The lectures are public and entrance is free.

November 13th , 7 pm c/o NGBK, Oranienstr. 25, 10999 Berlin Bettina Steinbrügge, director of the Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg Lecture: "Subjective academy- forms of knowledge production in artistic and curatorial practice". Bettina Steinbrügge will start with Derrida's idea of an academy as a state of mind to frame her curatorial practice as an experimental form of knowledge production.

November 14th , 7 pm c/o NBK, Chausseestr. 128, 10115 Berlin Lecture: "Connectivity - thinking about spaces of representation". Chus Martinez will develop her perspective on the significance of art societies (Kunstvereine) in an international context and a contemporary understanding of art practice.

November 15 th, c/o Kunsthalle Berlin-Lichtenberg, Anton-Saefkow-Platz 13, 1. OG, 10369 Berlin Guest critique, 3 pm Gertrud Sandqvist, Professor and dean at Malmö Art Academy, Lund University "Spaces of art and knowledge production". Malmö Art Academy runs a doctorate programme for artists as well as a degree course in Critical Studies. Gertrud Sandqvist will analyse current structures of artistic education and knowledge production and expand on them to examine how they relate to artistic research. Discursive Picnic, 5 pm The Discursive Picnic is an improvised event, ready to be modified and changed. It works as a potluck, where everybody is both guest and host at the same time. The discursive picnic will be organised by UNWETTER, an international group of artists, curators and theoreticians. www.un-wetter.net Lecture, 7 pm Iris Dressler/Hans D. Christ, directors of Württ. Kunstverein, Stuttgart "Ways of Working. Workshop as a form of artistic strategy". Iris Dressler and Hans C. Christ have set up an art society programme, which responds to different formats of artistic production. In their lecture they will examine and reflect on process-based artistic production.

November 16 th, 7.30 pm c/o KUNSTrePUBLIK e.V., Alte Jakobstr. 105, 10969 Berlin Film programme & drinks Art collectives in the 60s and 70s from the film archive of Henning Nass (Berlin)