Franz Erhard Walther should be far more widely known in the US than he is. Since the late 1950’s, he has developed a language around the activation of fabric-based sculptures, using them not in “performances” but in what he calls “demonstrations.” When being demonstrated, his objects are in their “handlungsform,” their active situation, and when functioning as static sculpture they are in their “lagerform,” their storage situation. Here, Walther demonstrates the “reading” of an edition of his Grosses Prozess-Buch (Large Process-Book), made in 1969 in conjunction with his First Work Set, a suite of fifty-eight usable sculptures made between 1963 ...

Linda Williams teaches courses on popular moving-image genres (pornography, melodrama, and “body genres” of all sorts). She has recently taught courses on Oscar Micheaux and Spike Lee, Luis Buñuel, eastern and western melodrama, film theory, and selected “sex genres.” Her books include a psychoanalytic study of Surrealist cinema, Figures of Desire (1981), a co-edited volume of feminist film criticism (Re-vision, 1984), an edited volume on film spectatorship, Viewing Positions (1993), the co-edited Reinventing Film Studies (with Christine Gledhill, 2000). She has also edited a collection of essays on pornography, Porn Studies, featuring work by many U.C. Berkeley graduate students (Duke, ...

HOME COOKING is a digital artist-run space started in March 2020 featuring activities, movement, music, poetry, video, and more.

“How to Make a Happening” is a lecture by Allan Kaprow from the mid-1960s. Originally conceived for publication as an LP, the text is accordingly arranged in two parts. Kaprow first lays out eleven rules for the Happening, which is framed as a kind of open-ended performance whose goal is a decisive break from all established cultural forms—a break to be positively embodied by the Happening itself—before going on to describe several Happenings at length, by way of example. “The point is to make something new,” says Kaprow, “something that doesn’t even remotely remind you of culture.” Yet the lecture is ...

Julia Scher “Filzengraben Boulevard” November 29, 2020 at Drei, Cologne and Kunsthaus Glarus “Charles Sloan”: Julia Scher “Julia”: Elisa R. Linn Host (“The Center”): Joseph Lubitz Online survey conceived by Elisa R. Linn and Joseph Lubitz. Designed by Chiara Sbolci. Concept and zoom chat text by Elisa R. Linn. Note: All participants were required to complete an online survey prior to attending this event, which took place on the application “Zoom.” The survey can be viewed at: filzengrabenblvd.getaccess.experimentallectures.org The introduction for the event, as well as a series of messages from “Julia,” occurred via the chat function of Zoom. The text of the chat is reproduced in its ...

Kamron Hazel and Nat Marcus Haus Wien am Kempelenpark, Vienna, Austria September 3, 2021, 4:30 pm The Center for Experimental Lectures invites you to Haus Wien on September 3rd at 4:30 pm for presentations of new work by Kamron Hazel and Nat Marcus. But of course, waxing over metronomic riddims, field recordings, and a syncopated ghetto blaster, Kamron will be giving a mistranslation of his elders’ wisdom, a lecture against having new experiences. By means of two turntables, a set of poems, citations and samples, Nat Marcus will give a lecture on the home that house music provides for her. This program will be live ...

Jo Spence (London, 1934-1992) played a crucial role in the debates about photography and the criticism of representation of the 70s and 80s. Drawing inspiration from Bertold Brecht and John Heartfield, she focuses on the construction of an image. Her work explores the ways that social identities are constructed through the still image, and proposes a subjective reappraisal of the dominant and popular uses of the photographic medium. As both author and model, Spence uses photography as a catalyst of rebellion and therapy in the face of the epistemic and symbolic violence that results from the dominant images produced by ...

The Parasophia Chronicle is a series of electronic publications edited by the Parasophia Office. Its main purpose is to present a public record of the office’s research, including lecture transcripts and other records of the Open Research Program. The inaugural issue of the Parasophia Chronicle features an original essay written by Mr. Akira Mizuta Lippit’s based on his lecture.

Lizzie Feidelson and Katherine Hubbard Hosted by The Shandaken Project Shandaken, NY Saturday August 30, 2014 The Center for Experimental Lectures invites you to join us upstate for our third annual Labor Day weekend event hosted by the Shandaken Project, for new lecture-performances by Lizzie Feidelson and Katherine Hubbard. The Shandaken Project will also present a selection of new video work by Chloé Rosetti, made while in residence this year. Guests are welcome any time in the afternoon and to stay on after the lectures into the night or overnight for eating, drinking, and camping. Lizzie Feidelson will present an untitled lecture on the social ...

What Loose Associations seems to leave is the impression of a familiar methodology in dealing with a certain type of material. Generally referred to as ‘found,’ this material might actually be quite familiar to any other incessant thinker out there who is busy constructing new forms, also through the sum of other constituents. It shows a recognisable digressional approach that creates a series of happy encounters rather than a simple discovery. In this case Ryan Gander’s digressions brought him to the discovery that is Loose Associations…

Journalist and author Masha Gessen discusses ways of surviving an autocracy. Rule #1? Believe the autocrat. For this week’s episode of the e-flux podcast, we are featuring Masha Gessen’s lecture, “How We Survive an Autocracy,” originally given on May 24, 2017 as part of an ongoing e-flux lectures series dedicated to discovering the protocols of twenty-first century truth, assuming that these still exist.

Math Bass and Travis Boyer Hosted by The Shandaken Project Shandaken, NY Sunday September 2, 2012 7pm The Center for Experimental Lectures invites you to join us upstate over Labor Day weekend for a special out-of- town presentation of new lecture-performances by Math Bass and Travis Boyer hosted by The Shandaken Project. Guests are welcome any time in the afternoon and to stay on after the lectures into the night or overnight for eating, drinking, and camping. New York Based artist Travis Boyer will present a slide lecture that connects Russian painting and Tex-Mex cocktail culture entitled “Any Three Ingredients Makes a ...