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Wiepersdorf between War and Peace
75 years after the Second World War, the Brandenburg documentary film director Sebastian Eschenbach devotes himself to the history of Wiepersdorf and its castle in Lower Fläming. A trailer
Do I Know What is a Book?
A book is more than a container for transporting texts and images; it is a commodity, stage, infrastructure, time machine and a non-human counterpart that often accompanies us for decades. In his lecture, Jan Wenzel presents five ways of describing the medium book and talks about his experience with books as a publisher, author and passionate reader. A lecture in German language.
A Quarantine Diary
In his lecture, curator and art historian Mark Gisbourne takes recent events and the time of quarantine as a starting point to reflect on the effects of the imposed period of isolation for artists and writers. He looks into the role of the studio as a place for creative introspection and the question, how art practices have changed in turn of their (virtual) mediation to the world and art market.
New Romanticism?
The wolves are coming back, the mines of the soul, the chalk cliffs of Rügen, wanderlust and moonstorm. What reservoir, what pitfalls does Romanticism hold in store for the literary present? A lecture by Marcel Lepper in German language.
A Way of Making Ghosts
In his lecture Aaron Cassidy explores two of his recent works based on self-portraits by the painter Gerhard Richter, Self-Portrait, Three Times, Standing (15.3.1991–20.3.1991) and Self-portrait, 1996.
