Repetitions. Artistic Perspectives. A Lecture Series

Luzie Meyer, VOIR DIRE
October 30, 2024, 6pm

For the film Voir Dire (2024), Luzie Meyer invited professional actor Maria Lehberg to one of Berlin's District Court Buildings, to re-enact a key scene from the 1979 courtroom drama "...And Justice for All" featuring Al Pacino. In the original film scene, defense lawyer Arthur Kirkland (Pacino) exposes the violence of the corrupt legal system in a spectacularly emotional monologue. Through repeated rehearsals and the recontextualization of the narrative with a female*-reading performer, and within a German courtroom, Voir Dire is a Ficto-Docu that deals with the ways in which individual cognitive biases and emotional investments play into the formation of normativity. Both her film and her subsequent reading, Luzie Meyer artistically explores repetition as a subject-forming device.

Ghislaine Leung, QUESTIONS
January 15, 2025, 6pm

Leung’s works often utilise their surrounding structures – exhibition space, temporal durational, regional location or organisational partners – as limits deployed through sets of conditions for each institution to perform the work. In her Questions talks, the artist takes the structure, and demand, of the artist talk to task, stipulating the requirement for no presentation to be given but there instead only be questions asked, to which Leung will respond accordingly.

Jenni Tischer, HARD FACTS (I SEE / YOU MEAN)
January 22, 2025, 6pm

The lecture performance addresses infrastructures of reproductive labor. Tischer performatively revisits historical diagrammatic representations of the unrealized garden city Llano del Rio from the 1920s in California designed by the feminist-communist architect Alice Constance Austen. The artist will reactivate this unexplored and forgotten utopia and question the spatio-temporal and material arrangement of knowledge accumulation and the possibilities and limits of its abstract form of representation.