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Inga ZimprichArtisticandCuratorialPractice

Born 1 979, I work as an artist and curator and livein Berlin. I am the mother of a child born 201 4.

In 201 5 I initiated the artistic and curatorialproject Feminist Health Care Research Group(www.feministische-recherchegruppe.org), a groupof women* artists who research collectively abouthealth care, developing workshops for culturalworkers and publishing zines.

From 2009 to 201 5 I co-organized the self-managed art space Flutgraben e.V. in Berlin, ahouse of artists studios. Here I co-developed thecuratorial program Inverse Institution in a collective.

As artist and curator I focus on precariousworking conditions in the arts, on care and healthcare, and, amongst others, on classist exclusions inthe art field by organizing workshops and projects. I have been part of AG Arbeit of Haben undBrauchen for several years.

As Faculty of Invisibil ity (www.faculty.cc)I pursue a practice of institutional critique,questioning the performative conditions of the artinstitution, its exclusions, its apparatus of validationand its potential for political assembly since 2006.

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I initiated Feminist Health Care Research Group(Feministische Gesundheitsrecherchegruppe) in 201 5. At firstwe comprised of a number of international participants whocommitted to developing self-organized artistic research intohealth care. Since 201 6 we act as a local Berlin-based groupconsisting of Alice Münch, Julia Bonn and myself, who meeton a weekly bases.

We jointly work on thematic research topics. Wedevelop workshops for cultural workers and publish ourresearch in zines. We research by reading about, visitingand meeting with initiatives, persons and institutions whohave developed alternatives in the health care sector. Withinthe group we test and try out methodologies which weencounter in the frame of our research. The growingresearch library collects publications from the healthmovement and feminist movement, including topics asfeminist therapy and feminist health, as well as contemporaryzines on queer health care and reproduction.

We have collaborated with art spaces as Kotti-Shop,Flutgraben, District, Alpha Nova, nGbK and ZKU in Berlin,Display (Prague), Arsenal Gallery (Poznan), ArthurBoskamp-Stiftung (Hohenlockstedt) and spaces as Heilehaus,FFBIZ the feminist archive (both Berlin) .Relating our own experience-based knowledge, reflectingour privilege and working collectively are central to ourconception of feminist research practice.

www.feministische-recherchegruppe.org

Feminist Health Care Research Groupself-empoweringcollectiveresearchon

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Working Together!A zine presentation and workshop on group-work methods by Feminist Health Care ResearchGroup at Tranzit Display Prag.September 201 7

The Feminist Health Care Research Grouppresents its fourth zine „Working Together",which summarizes methods, exercises, questionsand working formats, which have helped us informing a self-organized research group. Whilewe learn learning about issues of health, careand self-empowerment our research practiceand methods frequently intersect with the topicsof our research. How does one form a group,which makes space for sharing vulnerabil ity, forsharing experiences of the body, of il lness, andfor sharing needs, particularly as artists? Howdo we relate our research to our actual feelingsand our relations to each other? How can weallow that what we learn as Feminist HealthCare Research Group really takes effect in ourlives?

Working Together“ can either be read as amanual for setting up a regular group yourself,as instructions for small workshops or as aframework for self-reflection. I ts form is largelyinspired by our research into second wavefeminist self-help, consciousness-raising andcounseling groups, which issued practicaladvice, hands-on instructions for forming groupsand running self-empowering meetings. With theworkshop and zine „Working together“ wewant to propose ways in which methods fromsecond wave feminist struggles can integrateinto our practices as feminist cultural workerstoday: Making space for the personal, for ourneeds, meeting regularly in supportive groupsand not lastly acknowledging how ourseemingly subjective and isolated experiencesmake part of a larger political articulation:Voicing our shared need for mutual care.

Working Together!

Pictures by Richard Janecek

Debate at Multilogue on the Now: On Health, Display, PragueModerator: Kateřina Kolářová, Guests: Alyson Patsavas,Inga Zimprich, Tabita Rezaire, Curated by Zuzana Jakalova


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Multilogues on the Now: On Health - yoga,discussion, opening1 5.6. Display Prague

The discussion within the first Multilogues on theNow series entitled On Health, aims to unravelthe dominant narratives surrounding issues ofhealth, sickness, healing and chronicity intoday’s post-capitalist society. In the company ofour guests we shall reflect upon the forms andimpacts of a normative concept of health and‘mandatory competency’, transformations in theforms and institutions of healthcare, and whatpossibil ities exist to create such forms of(collective) care that would represent analternative to privatised and corporate visions ofhealth. We shall consider un/health in relationto the structural and economic conditions underwhich we live and the forms of chronicity thatlead to social exclusion and neglect.

Departing from vulnerabil ity: Reclaiming self-empowering strategies in health careInga Zimprich (Feminist Health Care ResearchGroup)Middlesex University, London, UKSaturday, 1 7 June 201 7

Inga Zimprich will discuss the practice of theFeminist Health Care Research Group, and thinkabout vulnerabil ity and il lness as particularplaces and practices of knowledge. She will askwhat self-empowering, mutual care work wewish to reclaim as feminists and culturalworkers. Lastly she would like to critically lookat the institutions framing of our practices –either the health care system or, in the case ofthe Feminist Health Care Research Group, theart field – asking how these enable or hinderemancipatory political practices.

Multilogue on the now/Departing from vulnerabil ity


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Third zine Being in Crisis Together by theFeminist Health Care Research Group,produced in the frame of a joint residencywith Power Makes us Sick (PMS) atStändige Vertretung, ZKU - Zentrum fürKunst und Urbanistik, Berlin, May/June201 7

Being in Crisis Zine


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Banner painted for Behindert und VerrücktFeiern Pride Parade, Berlin, June 201 7

Sharing Vulnerabil ity


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Feminist Health Care Research Groupcontributes to a seminar day on self-organized learning structures inUndisciplinary Reading, District Berlin.

Undisciplinary Learning


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Banner of the Feminist Health CareResearch Group, carried on thedemonstration on International Women*sDay, Berlin, 201 7


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Research Library on the health movement.

In August/September 201 6 we installed asmall public research library dealing withthe healthcare movement of the 1 980ies inKreuzberg. During three weeks we workedin Kotti Shop at Kottbusser Tor, gatheringarchived materials, meeting protagonistsand concluding with the workshop "Wirverarzten uns selbst". We visited FFBIZ - thefeminist archive, the archive ofFriedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum, we metwith Dagmar Schultz and Joan Murphy,initiators of FFBIZ - Feminist Health CareCenter Berlin, Aja Lüchtradt, Barbara Bohl,Diana Thielen, Johanna Hedva andGesundheitskollektiv (GeKO).

The Research Library has benn supportedby the Friedrichshain-KreuzbergProjektförderung.

Research Library Health Movement

Images: Materials in thelibrary, visit at archive ofFriedrichshain-KreuzbergMuseum, workshop "Wirverarzten uns selbst"visiting Heilehaus (attic) ,Dagmar Schultz and JoanMurphy looking atmaterials of the foundingtimes of FFGZ


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Overnight Workshop at nGbK in the frameof No Play. Feministisches Trainingscamp.The workshop introduced our research onfeminist and radical therapy and self-helpgroups.

Being in Crisis Together


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Second zine Political Feelings by FeministHealth Care Research Group realized in theframe of Curatorial Practices: Fields andTechniques, Act V, District Berlin. The zinesummarizes our research Sick Leave and theworkshop Political Feelings. 201 5

Political Feelings


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Sick LeaveSecond research meeting of the FeministHealth Care Research Group (Alice Münch,Emilia Muller-Ginorio, Feli Reuschling, IngaZimprich, Isabell Gross, Isabella Schiele,Julia Bonn, Julia Entner, Tijana Stevanovic)at District Berlin.Internal research meeting visitingAntipsychiatrische Beratungsstelle, ZietenApotheke and joining a demonstrationorganized by International Womens Spaceand other initiativesNovember 23rd - 25th 201 5Realized in the frame of CuratorialPractices: Fields and Techniques, Act V,District Berlin.

Sick Leave


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Beginning of our emerging research librarywhich contains feminist l iterature on healthcare, anti-psychiatry, the health movementof the 1 980ies in West-Germany, feministtherapy and many more as well ascontemporary publications on il lness andsickness. We also collect contemporaryzines dealing with body politics, queeridentities, care work, crip theory andreproductive rights and labour.

Research Library


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Krankheit zur Waffe!Health Care Research GroupFirst constitutive research meetings of theFeminist Health Care Research Group withAlice Münch, Felicita Reuschling, IngelaJohansson, Inga Zimprich, Isabell Gross,Johanna Gustavsson, Julia Bonn, JuliaEntner, Kornelia Kugler, Tijana Stevanovic.First meeting of a regular and long-termselforganized research group by womenartists on health and health care. VisitingSpinnboden, FeministischesFrauengesundheitszentrum and Heilehaus.Meeting at Flutgraben e.V.4. - 1 0. Mai 201 5

Turning I l lness into Weapon

I engage actively against precarious working conditionsin the art field, also addressing the exclusions which arecontinuously reproduced in the art field along categoriesof class, race, gender and ability.

precarious working conditions

Inga Zimprich/Sönke Hallmannworkshopon

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Century of the ArtistWorkshop, enquiry and posterTranzit, Iasi, Romania,October 28th 201 7

In Century of the Artist we would like tounravel our own biographies, familybackgrounds, socio-cultural context andupbringing as well as adolescent desiresand inherent promises of privilege andprestige implied in the role of the artist. Wewould like to inquire what it actually is thatwe learned implicitly in our education andin how far our refined artistic l iteracyimpacts on the way political desire isexpressed in our work. Lastly we would liketo question what concrete alternative formsof leading our lives politically are availableto us.

The Glitter(y) and the Misery of theEuropean Middle Classes is curated byNebojsa Milikic, Livia Pancu and FlorinBobu.

Century of the Artist

Inga Zimprich/Sönke HallmannEnquiry,responses,workshopandposter

Century of the Artist Workshop BerlinSunday, October 8th, 201 7 2 - 7 pmProject studio at Flutgraben e.V.

We chose for the format of enquiry andworkshop in order to deal with our ownlives, own conscious and unconscious needs,political and economic positions andinterests, and related sensations as workingmaterial. From the responses we gather wewill work towards methods and exercisesthat we will try out in the workshop Centuryof the Artist.Enquiry, responses, workshop instructionsand workshop outcome are edited towardsa manual, which will be presented as partof the project "The Glitter(y) and the Miseryof the European Middle Classes", curatedby Nebojsa Milikic, Livia Pancu and FlorinBobu at Tranzit.ro in Iasi, Romania, inOctober 201 7.

Century of the Artist

Small School of Precarious Labourprecariousworking

conditions

Small school of precarious labour,four-day workshop on precarious workingconditions in the arts with students of BrnoTechnical University Art Department.Collectively produced zine and presentationat Praha Project space.Co-organized with Pavel Sterec andMartina RuzickovaBrno, Czech Republic, March 201 7.

Institutional Weekendinstitutionalcritique

I nstitutional Weekend

a four-day workshop on institutions, withpractical exercise on how we can imagine,critise, practice and invert institutions.Collectively produced zine.Part of Method Fund's program Preface,Les Kurbas Center, Kiev, Ukraine.May 1 3-1 6th 201 6

Statement/PosterAGArbeit/

LabourGroup

Performative statement at ArtistsOrganisations International addressingprecarious working conditions of artists andthe project framework.With Sonja Augart, Tatjana Fell, AliceMünch, Ina Wudtke as Haben undBrauchen / to Have and to Need.

Art Organisations International HAU 201 5

Statement/PosterAGArbeit/

LabourGroup

As a way to engage adequately in anongoing dialogueg on working conditions ofartists l iving in Berlin, in 201 4 we suggestedthe concept of a persona, a fictionalcharacter that could be performed bymultiple artists, actors and activists. Start-ing with personal experiences, this personacould represent a communication partner tomediate and negotiate artistic workingconditions, at the same time developing asubjective yet manifold voice of self-empowerment for us, as artists. When weimagine the persona, we think of a she,intervening during events, daring to voiceher discomfort and hesitation, addressingprecarity without reserve.



precarious working conditionsAGArbeit/

LabourGroup

AG Arbeit has been Tatjana Fell, AliceMunch, Inga Zimprich, Moira Zoitl. The AGArbeit (Labor Group) was initiated as partof To Have and To Need (Haben undBrauchen) in February 201 4. We haveapproached artistic labour by beginningwith our subjective experiences andinterpreting them politically. We employedquestionnaires, investigating the relationbetween artistic work, care work, paid andunpaid work, visible and invisible labor. Inthe course of our work we have paidattendance fees for those present duringmeetings.

Flutgraben, Exrotaprint 201 4

collectivecuratorialpractice

I nverse Institution

has been the programmatic outline in the project space ofFlutgraben e.V. in Berlin from 201 0 - 201 5.

Inverse Institution has been a collective curatorialframework in which we examined institutionalparameters, such as institutional hospitality, invisible carework in institutions, durabil ity of collaborations andformats of publicness. In particular we employedworkshops as a format to engage with artistic practices.

Since 201 6 Janine Eisenächer, Sönke Hallmann, JoZahn and Inga Zimprich develop Inverse Institutionindependently of Flutgraben e.V. Through reflexive andrecapitulative processes we currently re-evaluate ourcollective practice in order to conclude towards newworking forms. 201 8 we will publish our reflections as amanual for cultural workers.

Inverse Institution


I nverse Institution took place in the projectspace of Flutgraben e.V. from 201 1 to201 5. During that time we invited a largenumber of collectives, groups and culturalworkers to make use of the project space inorder to begin new working processesduring longer production periods. Research,discussion, dinner, rehearsals, talks andworkshops were amongst the presentationformats. By chosing those formats ofexchange we aimed to strengthen lastingand loyal modes of production in the visualarts. We aimed to recognize each other'smutual comitment and to value the collectivecare work required to maintain a self-organized, non-commercial structure.

In 201 6 our work at Flutgraben came to aclose. Since then we recapitulate ourworking models and experiences.

Inverse Institution

Flutgraben Open Studios 201 7


I nverse InstitutionProgrammatic outline atFlutgraben e.V.Since 201 0Developed by Sonke Hallmann, IngaZimprich, Jo Zahn, Janine Eisenacher andpreviously with Lydia Hamann, KajOsteroth, Naomi Hennig, Ulrike Jordan

Inverse Institution(Quotes from statement 201 5)

Turning institutional critique. . .into collective practice

Inverse Institution negotiates experiencesfrom self-organized and collective contexts,our encounters with institutions as well asartistic and academic knowledgeproduction.In the project space of Flutgraben e.V. werehearse conditions, by which we canimagine a collective institution space. Howcan we invert the prescriptive character ofthe institution, its normalizing and normingfunctions? What relation exists betweeninstitution and collective? What needs wouldwe like to orient a shared space on, inorder to conclude towards a newinstitutional practice?With Inverse Institution we attempt to jointlyopen up the institution from the inside. Weinvite artists, groups and collectives to workhere during several weeks, partlywithdrawn and partly public, sharingquestions with us and our guests. Weemploy formats as workshops, dinner,discussion, rehearsals, performances,screenings and more, in which we learnfrom each other and develop our practicesfurther. By offering recurring workingperiods we aim to give continuity to an evergrowing contexts of artists, in order to worktogether long-term.

at Flutgraben e.V 201 0 - 201 5

Inverse Institution


Within Inverse Institution we negotiate howwe relate to invisible and visible labor inself-organized spaces, how we can care forthe structures we maintain but stil l remainable to change and adjust them. In ourchoices regarding rhythms, formats,payment and participation we aim toanswer to the working conditions of self-organized spaces and non- commercialartistic positions, their history and theprecarity which signifies them today.

We develop forms of artistic and non-academic knowledge production andpractice possibil ities to circulate thisknowledge collectively. With regard to theinstructive orders and normative effects ofmuseum spaces we aim to create otherapproaches at forms of showing, presentingand publishing. We ask, how the relationbetween hosting institution and invited artistsand groups can be challenged and whichattentiveness is required by shared publicmoments. In intensive formats such asworkshops, conversations and excerciseswe suggest a context which allows for formsof participation beyond merely forming theaudience.

www.inverse-institution.org

Inverse Institution



I nverse Institutionprevious formats and events

Fuck you - I am not feeling it. . . your versionof happiness is really problematic for me.Johanna Gustavsson, Karin Michalski,Wassan Ali

Projekt einer ZeitschriftBerni Doessegger, Paul Gangloff, SönkeHallmann, Michael Murtaugh

Performance by Systrar Productions

Process Contact PotencyAnita Chari

Talk ShowAmelia BandeSarah M Harrison

der kollektive BlickJo Zahn, Balz Isler

Isabell Gross, Isabella Schiele, Julia Entner

Witnessing the writing of historyIngela Johansson

Forms and formats of writingLiv Strand, Marcus Doverud

I’m too sad to dissentTijana Stevanovic

Inverse Institution



Counter-constructivist modelSezgin Boynik, Minna Henriksson

Wir spielen

Inverse-Institution-Workshop

Publishing Impulse – Active ArchivesMichael Murtaugh

Sprechen und Schreiben imPerformancekontextAline Benecke, Janine Eisenächer, KajOsteroth

Kollektive Zusammenhänge verknüpfen

Doing Things Together

Capitalism as we live itLiv Strand, Elizabeth Ward

Domestic Utopias drawing workshopFelicita Reuschling, Stefan Endeward

The revolution starts at homeJohanna Gustavsson, Lisa Nyberg

Hysterical MediocritySarah M Harrison, Noha Ramadan

Salong!Laden Lothringer 1 3, le Orgien and more .. .

Inverse Institution


WorksFaculty

ofInvisibility

Faculty of Invisibil ity is since 2006 theartistic practice of Sönke Hallmann and IngaZimprich. As Faculty of Invisibil ity theyaddress the contemporary (art-) institutionand question what it means to come tospeech within it. The Faculty of Invisibil ityholds internal meetings, such as the Speech(2006), Public Voice (201 0) and Assembly(201 0) and publishes its correspondances inform of letter series (the Invitation 2008,Officium 201 1 ) , posters (Resignation 2008),records (Voice, 201 1 ) or newspapers(Communiqué, 2007).Paul Gangloff has been member of Facultyof Invisibil ity from 2006 - 201 0. Ingainitiated FoI at Jan van Eyck Academie,Maastricht, in 2006.

Body of WorkFaculty

ofInvisibility

Body of Work is a summer camp, organizedby the Faculty of Invisibil ity, for artists andothers. Neither as art production nor torecreate our labor force as artists we wouldlike to offer the summer camp as a form ofcollective suspense. In Body of Work aminimal setting will be provided, consistingof a screen that wil l catch the setting sun, awooden ring in which we'l l meet once a dayand the Abaton. In Ancient Greece Abatonwas the pilgrim's dormitory, part of atemple's complex, where one would dreamof and experience cure during sleep.

To bringPlease bring at least one bad experience(preferably from the art world) that shouldbe turned into a good one. I f you like, bringan (healing) exercise that can be doneindividually or in a group. You're welcometo bring helpful objects and books as a loanto the summer camp's temporary library.

Body of Work is a cooperation with theKünstlerhäuser Worpswede / die Kolonie,run by Tim Voss. The poster has beendesigned by Paul Gangloff. I t quotes FranzKafka's call of the Nature Theatre ofOklahoma. Proof reading by Sarah MHarrison. Body of Work is a production bythe Faculty of Invisibil ity (Sönke Hallmannand Inga Zimprich) .

Participants amongst others Jo Zahn, DorisKoch, Tanja Widmann, Ingela Johansson,Janine Eisenächer, Tim Voss, Boris Azemar,Paul Gangloff, Cornelia Sollfrank, FelicitaReuschling, Tatjana Fell, Alice Münch,friends, children and partners.

www.body-of-work.org

Summer Camp Künstlerhäuser Worpswede 201 5

Body of WorkFaculty

ofInvisibility

Struggles I realise can’t be won are shifted tothe inside, distributing grains of frustration andfear, until nothing but their indeterminablesymptoms show. I t carries little weight whether Iam governed or whether I govern myself. WhileI engage to alter the institutions from within, Irealise that they reside inside of me and havebegun to hollow me out. They keep asking forever more room. Through my body theinstitutions confer with each other. Everydayanother emotion, another sensation changessides.

I perpetuate what I would like to push back. Iam entirely exhausted, yet entirely mobilised. Istil l wish to be the dividing line running throughmyself, a line that can not be withdrawn, thatwould restore my body for myself. A spell thatcould undo the silent yet constant invocation,that works continually to produce a new form ofintimacy within me. Stil l , the modeof production that governs me maintainscountless relations within myself, so that I wouldbegin to destroy myself if I were to abandon it.I l lness remains as the only possible form of life.Countless particles within my body haveradicalised themselves and can no longer becontrolled. They conspire against me. I am in– aphysical state of rebell ion. The permanent andever growing sense of anxiety. The fatigue that Ican no longer get rid of.I f I had ever dreamt of a cure, that could tearme from the formula I call my body of work,I imagine something hardly noticeable, l ike ascarcely audible sound that could take hold ofeverything that must be redeemed. A sound thatcould form a passage, a sound that couldforever split what was, from what wil l be.A sound just l ike the persistent ringing in my ear.A sound that one only need dream of.

Summer Camp Künstlerhäuser Worpswede 201 5

AuditoriumFaculty

ofInvisibility

AuditoriumReturn to Sender

Three-day long gathering in the translationboothes of the main auditory of House ofWorld Cultures, Berlin. The meeting of theFaculty of Invisibil ity addressed the space oflistening as political space. What particulararrangement and proceedings of speech dosuch official conference sites enact? Whichroles and instructions are audible thoughthey remain omitted?Assembly with Tashy Endres, MaaikeEngelen, Sönke Hallmann, Annika Högner,Ingela Johansson, Inga Zimprich.

June 4th/5th 201 4, not publicAudio recording by Faculty of Invisibil ity ondisplay at translation boothes of the theatrehall of HKW (June 1 6th - 1 8th 201 4) in theframe of Returning to Sender

Haus der Kulturen der Welt 201 4

View from the translation boothes, Auditory, HKW

EmbodimentFaculty

ofInvisibility

Body of Work: Embodiment,Research and writing exercise inDepartment of Reading

Departing from the archive of performanceart at Galeria Labirynt in Lublin, Poland, weworked in sessions of the Department ofReading with texts from institutional critiqueand with concepts of embodiment. Duringthe research residency in Lublin we begandeveloping the concept of the Body of Worksummer camp, realized in 201 5 inWorpswede, Germany.

Galeria Labirynt Lublin 201 2

Voice consists of three vinyl records,containing each small text recordings on theact of exhibiting, recording andcommunicating with the audience. Presentedat Iaspis Open Studios 201 2.

Record 1Side A: RecorderSide B: Whisper

Record 2Side A: Written VoiceSide B: Exhibiting

Record 3Side A: Imaginary AudienceSide B: Double

ListeningFaculty

ofInvisibility

During a residency at Iaspis, Stockholm,Faculty of Invisibil ity held a three-day-longassembly in Elektronmusikstudion (EMS)Stockholm. I t inquired into the specific spaceof speech and hearing at work inpsychoanalyses and listening as a self-referential practice. With Maaike Engelen(Psychoanalyst, London), Nebojsa Milikic(cultural worker, Belgrad), Roé Cerpac(artist, Amsterdam).Subsequently we produced "Voice" whichconsists of three vinyl records, containingeach small text recordings on the act ofexhibiting, recording and communicatingwith the audience. Presented at Iaspis OpenStudios 201 2.

Record 1Side A: RecorderSide B: WhisperRecord 2Side A: Written VoiceSide B: ExhibitingRecord 3Side A: Imaginary AudienceSide B: Double

EMS Stockholm 201 2

I f one could make one's own coming to speech a giftFaculty

ofInvisibility

I f one could make one's own coming tospeech a gift is a public setting of speech,which turns a public lecture into aperformative investigation into hearing andrecording. Set at a diamond table, using arecording device and speakers, the lecturersplayback a conversation recorded justbefore the beginning of the lecture. Pickingup its loose ends and continuing thisconversation life, the evolving conversationwith the audience is in turn recorded andsubsequently played back at the end of thetalk.I f one could make one's own coming tospeech a gift investigates the space of purelistening that the passivity of the audienceentails: Being embedded into hearingwithout any demand to respond.

Previous Meeting mit Johannes Porsch a, b,c und Tanja Widmann If one could makeone's own coming to speech a gift public.Flutgraben e.V. In the frame ofTischgesellschaften, gefördert durch Karin-Abt-Straubinger-Stiftung

Flutgraben 201 1

Echo's BookDepartmentofReading

Echo’s Book documents the writings andreadings related to the Symposium forReaders (Berlin, December 2007). As thetitle implies, the book is made of twovolumes echoing each other physicallyinterconnected by a sharing cover. Thereader is encouraged to read the twovolumes opened side-by-side—which means,four pages—simultaneously. The rectos ofthe right-hand volume presents six originalessays, which are reflected by discussionson the texts printed on the versos of the left-hand volume. The pages in between containfragments of both texts—original essays andtheir reflections—creating another set of“echoes.”

This unusual structure suggests the way atext is echoed as discourse through theinterpretations and interchanges. Thedesign, however, does not merely il lustratethe life of the texts: the practical format andthe clear typography, combined with thesuperb production, ensure a multi-dimensional yet comfortable readingexperience. Within the physical l imitationsof the printed book, or perhaps thanks tothem, Echo’s Book successfully contains thetheoretically limitless echoes of the texts.

Jan van Eyck Academie 201 0

OfficiumFaculty

ofInvisibility

With Officium the Faculty of Invisibil itydrafted a letter series consisting of eightletters, translated into three languages(Spanish, Dutch, English) and sent to allemployees of partner institutions andfunding bodies of Manifesta 8. The letterseries adresses the relation between officeand person and the enactment of a publicposition. I t suggests a nearly intanglibleform of strike.Published in the frame of Parallel Events ofManifesta 8 in Murcia,

Manifesta 6 Parallel Events 201 0/201 1

AssemblyFaculty

ofInvisibility

AssemblyShedhalle Zürich 201 0Curated by Sönke Hallmann, Inga Zimprich

In its curatorial guest project the Faculty ofInvisibil ity engages with the political placeof the assembly. Along moments ofinstitutionalisation it traces the questionwhich possibil ities of assembly thecontemporary art institution suggests andallows for. The Faculty of Invisibil ityproceeds by investigating forms of politicalspeech, moments of inscription and acts ofenforcement that make social articulationsbinding and recognizable. I f the institutionmarks the threshold where articulations areinscribed into the realm of the visible andcommunicable, to question the institution’spolitical capacity today requires to exercisethe institutional as a function of speech andto assemble within its mechanisms ofshowing and issuing. The exhibition room conveys a series ofsettings similar to those that direct roles andspaces of speech in institutional entities.These spatial set-ups draw on such acts asthe address, the foundation, the protocol,the delegation and the declaration to ask:What does it mean to gather within thelanguage-based apparatus of the institution– within those places the institutionprovides, but which in turn reproduce theinstitutional itself? What can it mean to gainarticulation in them, to have a voice withinthem? How could one open a space ofspeech inside the institutional realm in whichone’s own being-in-language becomesapparent and available?

Shedhalle Zürich 201 0

AssemblyFaculty

ofInvisibility

Aiming to make moments of recent historyavailable in their capacity, the exhibitionsetting assembles footage such as quotes,contracts, protocols, and recordings fromarchives of political instances. The relationcontemporary writing and artistic productionholds with reality also comes forth from thepossibil ities and hopes that revealthemselves in a collection of past momentsof public articulation, traceable instatements, inscriptions, documents, andspeech acts. The exhibition setting thus aimsto assemble a vast collection of voices.

– With Laurie Cohen, Benjamin Cölle,Maaike Engelen, Clemence Freschard,Jeanne van Heeswijk, Ingela Johansson,Achim Lengerer, M7red (MauricioCorbalan, Pio Torroja) , p-r-o-x-y, DagmarReichert, Darren Rhymes, Jan Rolletschek,Elske Rosenfeld, Simone Schardt, JohanSiebers, Tanja Widmann et al– Materials on loan by Robert HavemannGesellschaft, Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis derHeinrich Böll Stiftung– Retreats by Maartje Dros, FrancoisLombarts

Shedhalle Zürich 201 0

Public Voice / Dark LightFaculty

ofInvisibility

DARK LIGHTFaculty of Invisibil ityat Transmission Gallery Glasgow

Maaike Engelen, Sönke Hallmann,Lydia Hamann, Inga Zimprich

And yet, at least for a moment in thesepages, these lives shine blindingly with adark light. Giorgio Agamben: The Author asGesture

And yet, at least for a moment in thesepages, these lives shine blindingly with adark light. Giorgio Agamben: The Author asGesture

In its current production the Faculty ofInvisibil ity engages itself with processes ofinstitutionalisation. Exposing the mechanismsof these processes by means of quotation,the Faculty of Invisibil ity tries to put them atplay. As speech, gesture or image, theexamples assembled draw attention to aplace inherent to any institution, one thatconcerns its foundation.

At Transmission Gallery the Faculty ofInvisibil ity is concerned with the concept ofa 'dark light': a light that occurs along thelines of bureaucratic acts and texts. Withthis dark light the doubling of anybureaucratic gesture - at once expressiveand inexpressive - is il luminated. Through arhythm of setting in and out, being in andout of force, the Faculty of Invisibil ity workstowards a mode of taking place that, alike adark light, does no longer merely expose orexhibit.

Transmission Gallery 201 0

Public Voice / Dark LightFaculty

ofInvisibility

PUBLIC VOICEFaculty of Invisibil ityat Transmission Gallery Glasgow

A closing event on questions of diplomacyand speech with Sönke Hallmann, IngaZimprich, Dagmar Reichert, Kerstin Meyer.Contributing in writing: Maaike Engelen,Tanja Widmann.Spokesperson: Darren Rhymes

To enter the role of the spokesperson meansto speak on behalf of others, to perform thepublic voice of an institution. Thespokesperson lends her or his voice to asubject that, in a strict sense, is voiceless,that only exists through agency, or that isscattered into many voices at once. I t seemsas if there is a double absence at work. Asmuch as the spokesperson in lending her orhis voice retreats as a person from thescene, the articulation issued is that of anabsent subject as well.I t's the hermetically closed configuration, achain of delegations, that assures theinaccessibil ity of an articulation, whileissuing it at the same time. Thesupplementary structure withdraws, what theact of speech seems to present. I t's aceaseless suite of rooms in language. Alikethe voiceless voice, audible in train stations,or the monotone voice of the UN-spokesperson treating almost every wordthe same.For a moment the image of a chorus ofvoices appears, announcing, while beingaverted. What are the voices like that formthe current paradigms of speech?What is the image that allows us to thinkarticulation today?

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Putting in ForceFaculty

ofInvisibility

I n the frame of a residency at KünstlerhausBüchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Faculty ofInvisibil ity developed a series of gatheringsin relation to the particular institutionalspace of the United Nations. The UN as anarchetype of institutionality exemplifiesmoments of announcement, enforcement,universalism, enactment and language-based apparatuses and proceedings.With Emma Devries, Paul Gangloff, MaaikeEngelen, Sönke Hallmann, Inga Zimprich.

Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen 2009

ResignationFaculty

ofInvisibility

I n 2009 Faculty of Invisibil ity produced theposter Resignation for Transmission GalleryGlasgow. The Faculty of Invisibil ity's tutorsannounce their resignation from their postsubsequent to the work 'the invitation'. Theposter makes use of Franz Kafka's BlueOctavo Notebooks, Heiner Müllers stageversion of Brecht's Fatzer Fragments. I t wasconceptualized to be sent to employees ofart institutions, encouraging to leave theirposts.

Transmission Gallery 2009

the InvitationFaculty

ofInvisibility

The series of six letters and two postcards,sent from the Department of Haunting inirregular intervals over the course of threemonths, was sent to 500 receivers whom theauthors remember personally - or ratherwere at the fringe of forgetting. The letterseries addresses the place of rememberanceand forgetting, intimacy and distanceinherent to each act of letter writing. I tfurther plays with the series, the intruderand unexpected guests as well as instance.The invitation was issued in the frame ofMaster Humphrey's Clock, a project of theAppel Curatorial Program participants in2008.

2008

CommuniquéFaculty

ofInvisibility

The Communiqué of the Faculty of Invisibil ityassembles all speeches and addresses of thetutors who initiated the Faculty of Invisibil ityat the Speech, by offering openingspeeches to their respective departments. Inan edition of 1 000 pieces the tutorsdistributed the Communiqué themselves.Printed in a daily tabloid format the singlepages were unfolded and re-assembled tobe read in the manner of a book.

2008

The SpeechFaculty

ofInvisibility

I n 2006 the gathered tutors founded theFaculty of Invisibil ity by opening theirrespective departments through openingspeeches. The three day long gatheringentitled The Speech assembled departmentsas Department of Doubt (MonikaVykoukal) , Department of Reading (SönkeHallmann), Department of Haunting (PaulGangloff) , Department of Learning(Nebojsa Milikic) , Department ofUncertainty (Ingela Johansson), Departmentof Play (Lesya Khomenko), Department ofSurvival (Volodymyr Kuznetsov),Department of Practice (Inga Zimprich) etal.

Jan van Eyck Academie 2006

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