SYMPOIESIS

An online symposium collectively curated by the Transart MFA class of 2020

August 5 - 15

In Staying with the Trouble, Donna Harraway describes sympoiesis as "a simple word; it means “making-with.” Nothing makes itself; nothing is really autopoietic or self-organizing...Sympoiesis is a word proper to complex, dynamic, responsive, situated, historical systems. It is a word for worlding-with, in company. Sympoiesis enfolds autopoiesis and generatively unfurls and extends it."

Drawing on the sympoiesis that has characterised their experience working in company with each other for past two years, the creators of this symposium will draw in contributions from various practitioners around the world to explore some of the manifold ways that artists and curators manifest sympoiesis in their practice. 

Full Program

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First image: Syowia Kyambi, The Lecture Room Intervention. Video Still documentation Carl Kühl. MARKK Museum Hamburg, 2019; Second image: Fayen d'Evie, Troy McConnell, Sophie Takách and Prue Lang, 2016. [...] {...} [...] How does a straight line feel?. Sculptural, sonic, choreographic and performative installation detail. Photo: Pippa Samaya; Third image: Photo, Aleks Slota, 2019; Fourth image: Isabel Lewis, Unambitious Stripper workshop. Image: Joanna Seitz