December 16, 2025

Eliane Bertschi Presents Cracks on a Cell Phone with Love Letters at Swamp Sacrifices II

We are delighted to look back on the presentation of artist and doctoral researcher Eliane Bertschi’s textile installation Cracks on a Cell Phone with Love Letters, shown on Saturday, 4 October 2025, as part of Swamp Sacrifices II at KANAL – Centre Pompidou in Brussels.
The work appeared within a festival that immersed audiences in the cracks, the fluid spaces, and the supersensory layers of the Brussels underground—an exploration of water, intimacy, and the unruly terrain beneath the city.

Festival information:
https://kanal.brussels/en/events/performance/swamp-sacrifices-4
https://hiros.be/en/project/swamp-sacrifices/

December 16, 2025

Ginan Seidl Wins Prize for Her New Installation J-N-N ج-ن-ن

We are thrilled to share exciting news from this year’s Kasseler Dokfest: artist, filmmaker, and doctoral researcher, Ginan Seidl, has been awarded a prize for her new 3-channel video installation J-N-N ج-ن-ن, currently on view at the festival’s exhibition Monitoring.
The official announcement can be seen on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DRZLyR9jpb7/


Blending personal narrative, historical reflection, and mythological research, Seidl’s work invites viewers on a haunting cinematic journey across Iraq—physically, emotionally, and cosmologically.


Explore the exhibition here:
https://www.kasselerdokfest.de/das-festival/ausstellung-monitoring

May 7, 2025

Spring PhD Seminar Week - Lecture Cally Spooner

We are happy to invite you for a talk by artist Cally Spooner. Spooner will discuss Neoliberal Time in relation to performance, followed by a reading from A Hypothesis of Resistance; a series of five essays on “performance” by Spooner. In each, she holds and examines temporalities that defy and eclipse the standardizations which drive individual and societal bodies to perform toward an entirely metric-oriented future.
Spooner’s talk will take place within the framework of the Spring PhD Seminar Week, which focuses ‘performance in/as artistic research’. Feel free to join us for Spooner’s talk on Monday May 19th, 4 – 6 pm, Toni Areal room 3.E03. No reservation required.

Photograph by Cally Spooner, Screen Test for the Psoas Muscle (2023) with Still Life (2018)