Participants
The Archipelago Lab was initiated by Prof. Dr. Christoph Brunner, who led it from 2016 until the winter term of 2022/23. In the following summer term, Marie Lynn Jessen and Arthur Siol took over the student supervision and conception of the Archipelago Lab, and it became affiliated with the Vice Dean's Office for Research. Starting in the summer of 2024, Marie Lynn Jessen supervised and curated the Archipelago Lab together with its network and student groups.
The ArchipelagoLab was available (especially, but not only) to students and doctoral candidates in the faculties of Education, Culture, and Sustainability as a space, network, and infrastructure that provided support and advice.
Summer Term 2024 - Summer Term 2025
| Network | Guests and Collaborators | Caretaker/Curator |
|---|---|---|
| Leen Al-Ashhab Ilkay Aydemir Linn Felgendreher Leon Follert Smilla Grubert Frieder Janz Katharina Tchelidze Kyle Wendt | Yvette Christiansë (LIAS Fellow, Leuphana/New York City) Sophie McCuen-Koytek (Leuphana, Kunstraum) Julian Volz (Leuphana) Kunsthaus Hamburg | Marie Lynn Jessen |
Summer Term 2023 - Winter Term 2023/24
| Network | Guests and Collaborators | Caretaker/Curator |
|---|---|---|
| Ilkay Aydemir Linn Felgendreher Leon Follert Frieder Janz Julia Jeske Sophie Peterson Katharina Tchelidze Kyle Wendt | Lisa Behrendt, Hanna Zeyen (Braunschweig/Lüneburg) Lesekreis Politiken und Theorien des Begehrens (queer Edition) | Marie Lynn Jessen Arthur Siol |
Winter Term 2022/23
Sophia Bembeza (Athen)
Edith Brunette (Montreal/Berlin)
Nik Forrest (Montreal)
Julia Haas (Wuppertal)
Dejla Haidar (Kobanê Universität, Rojava Universität Qamislo)
Paula Hildebrandt (Hamburg)
Marie Lynn Jessen (Leuphana, Coordinator)
François Lemieux (Montreal/Berlin)
Gabriel Francisco Lemos (São Paulo)
Arthur Siol (Leuphana, Coordinator)
Alanna Thain (Montreal)
Jana Vanecek (Zürich)
Kathrin Wildner (Hamburg)
Summer Term 2022
Sophia Bembeza (Athen)
Dr. Felipe Castelblanco
Flavia Meireles
Julia Mensch
Tiara Roxanne
Fabian Schäfer
Rasa Smite
Yvonne Volkart
Winter Term 2021/22
Nuria Krämer
Patrick Müller
Jana Vanecek
Maju Martins (Brasilien)
October - December 2018
In coorporation with Prof. Dr. Ursula Kirschner
https://majumartins.wordpress.com
Artist Talk
23.10.2018 | 18:15 | C5.225
In this conversation, Maju Martins will present different practical experiences with and by groups and contexts that use artistic practices to produce new understandings about different topics. All are invited to reflect on and discuss these strategies as ways to develop new methodologies of knowledge production, teaching and learning.
Workshop | Frontier Zones in Urban Spaces: Images, Sounds, Movements in History
12.12.2018 | 13:00-17:00 | C5.225
By Maju Martins and Ursula Kirschner
This workshop is an invitation to reflect and discuss about the concept of Frontier Zones in different contexts. It will present and negotiate the processes and results of three different research and didactic experiences. Two International Summer Schools entitled “Frontier Zones” that took place in Brazil (2015 and 2017) and a seminar entitled Frontier Zones in Urban Spaces at Leuphana University Campus in 2018. The main objective of these experiences was to highlight the value of experience-based learning approaches and the method of documentary filmmaking with the focus on the audio-visual without explanatory words. The aim resided in creating methodologies and knowledges from urban audio-visual exploration applying the techniques of documentary filmmaking as a medium to reveal new insights and readings of contemporary spaces.
The workshop will be divided into two parts. Starting at the Kunstraum, the audience is invited to take part in an audio-visual exhibition that will occur in three different places around the Campus. The projected short films are a result of the seminar. The second part, back at Kunstraum, will include the screening of two films produced during the Frontier Zones International Summer School presenting the ideas and practices involved in those experiences, coordinated by Professor Ursula Kirschner in collaboration with Maria Julia Martins.
Sissel Marie Tonn (The Hague, NL/DK)
04. Januar 2017 - 27. Januar 2017
Sissel Marie Tonn is a Danish artist living in The Hague. She works with multi-media installation, drawing and writing, and her processual approach is driven by a great deal of curiosity and the possibilities of building relationships across fields.
Her work builds upon an interest in "presence" within ecologies undergoing subtle or profund changes. Within this discourse the work explores these environmental (often humanly induced) changes, extending the public debates towards epistemological issues connecting these events to the body and its sensing of presence. She has lived and worked in Copenhagen, Toronto, Berlin and is now based in The Hague, where she is continuing to engage in community projects, host workshops, events and group exhibitions. She is the co-founder of the artist initiative Platform for Thought in Motion together with artist Jonathan Reus. Together they arrange events in The Hague, in collaboration with the artist initiative iii. She completed a master in Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague 2015.
The Intimate Earthquake-Exhibition
Exercises for the Possible
I have always been fascinated by the concept of relation - and the quest of making the ever-fluctuating, reciprocal and entangled relations between body and environment tangible. The objects, exercises and gestures that I create in my work are ways of making relations felt. My work deals with instances where environmental changes affects the body, and how this afford a kind of increased sensory awareness of the surrounding environment. Currently I am developing a new conceptual framework in which I situate these works, that of "Procedural Tools" (a concept taken from Arakawa & Gins) which will be the focus for my residency at Archipelago as well. Procedural tools expose the expansiveness of the sensorium - ever-evolving and plastic in themselves, morphing into new configurations along with the body/environment ecology. Thus they afford an opportunity for the body to attune to subtle changes within an environment, or challenge its own inherent plasticity.
The residency will be an opportunity to develop further a series of worn objects that reposition the perceptual posture of the body. By developing a fictional/poetic framework around procedural tools (through writing, procedures and performative presentations) I wish to develop a strategy of "multi-sensory storytelling" around the concept of relation. How can a hybrid practice combining worn objects and speculative poetics offer a way to explore our own plasticity?
I am interested in creating work that challenge the cognitive block of insurmountable doom often mentioned in the same breath as climate change. I want to create work that in a way re-calibrate the senses to even the subtlest of changes occurring in the body-environment ecology - and thus may perhaps even play a role in speeding up the adaptive process towards perceiving the looming threat of environmental degradation and adapt to it accordingly.