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Remote Sensations – Mercurybodies

a critical cartography of remote sensing Mercurybody : Contamination of Female Body and sexual Reproduction Elements: 3D models of a female breast, of sewage treatment plants, of a temporary metal bridge, of human bronchial tubes, of gold jewelry, of the fish Bocachico in the Atrato River, Gold Mercury Amalgams, Dental Amalgams voice: we toxic bodies […]

Remote Evocations – Entre Moléculas

a SF scenario on deep molecular access Mercurybodies – Many are holding Remote Sensations by knowbotiq in a constellation with Remote Evocations by Entre Moléculas (Elizabeth Gallón Droste, Claudia Howald, Fundación Mareia, Ana Garzón Sabogal, Pablo Torres, knowbotiq) commissioned by Fundación Más Arte Más Acción, Bogotá supported by Fundación Mareia, Quibdó, Pro Helvetia, Ministry of […]

SWISS PSYCHOTROPIC GOLD

->Versión en español >Version mit deutschen Untertiteln in the exhibition “Technoshamanism”, HMKV at Dortmunder U, 9 October 2021 – 6 March 2022, photo: Jannis Wiebusch Hek Basel 2020, double screen Foto: Gina Folly Swiss Psychotropic Gold_Molecular Refinery; digitial video, 17min02; 2020 (Pax Art Award Basel) Up to 70% of gold which is traded worldwide passes through […]

Thulhu Thu Thu, before the sun harms you

Scottish Highlands, peat bogs,  2020 – thulhu thu thu, before the sun harms you: Timespan Arts Center, Helmsdale/Scotland 11.10.19-12.01.20; Symposium 10-12.1.20 knowbotiq with ira wilhelm, pablo alarcón guests: Lamin Fofana, Ayesha Hameed/Elvin Brandhi, Ashanti Harris, Eric Huntley, Pedro Neves Marques/Raw Forest, Fundaciòn Mareia, Margarida Mendes, Odete, Romy Rüegger, Belinda Zhawi curator: Sadie Young – thulhu […]

Darkish Matter Radio Studio

                                                    Darkish Matter Radio Studio Jeetze (DMRS Jeetze) is a temporary radio studio in a small village in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, which is impacted on one side by infrastructure deficiencies, on […]

Genesis Machines

  Genesis Machines – La Pompa Agricultura Transsubstantia */doing what is to be done clandestinely courtesy art collection City of Zurich Exhibition: Machines Like Us, Donau Festival Krems 2020, 24.4.-02.5.20 knowbotiq in collaboration with Odete (sound): Genesis Machines, indigo farming, 2020 Exhibition: Plant Revolution!  Centro International das Artes João de Guimarães, 19.10.19-16.2.20 curated by Margarida […]

manYdancing the molecular

manYdancing mix by Lamin Fofana manYdancing the molecular ornaments re-assembles those body practices of the early 20th century with the crisis-like experiences of a present in which algorithmic governmentalities and biotechnologies fragmentize and molecularize the bodies. How to articulate current experiences of ornamentation, dissolution and abstract formlessness? Will parodistic, carnivalesque and ecstatic ghosts access our […]

… untooling

Untooling is a speculative and open-ended set of questions and reflections that emerged out of an engagement with the conditions and processes of translocal artistic research. Working on projects in different contexts, sensitive environments and assemblies we tried to trace, activate and negotiate translocal entanglements, our own positionalities and some of the constellations and pitfalls […]

situations: closure

Fotomuseum Winterthur, “Situations  – Closure” , 24.10.20 – 14.02.21, foto: Philipp Ottendörfer A group of works by Swiss artist duo knowbotiq (Yvonne Wilhelm and Christian Hübler) are shown in combination for the first time as part of SITUATIONS: thulhu thu thu, before the sun harms you and LETTRE à moi, moi-même et le DAHOMEY. Through […]

AMAZONIAN FLESH – how to hang in trees during strike?

  The New Alphabet, Unlearning Places, HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, 10-14 January 2019 (Foto: Aya Schamoni) Amazonian Flesh – how to hang in trees during strike?, HeK Basel 2020, Foto: Gina Folly Amazonian Flesh – how to hang in trees during strike? Interkultur Ruhr 23-25 November 2018   The New Alphabet, […]

LETTRE à moi, moi-même et le DAHOMEY

Qu’est-ce qui moisit dans les archives? Sur ma, notre peau une multitude de bactéries roses fleurissent des millions d’histoires assemblées pas blanc pas brun pas noir – désobéissantes aux récits familiaux en cherchant Sœurette l’alliance libidineuse compostez, maintes sens symbiotiques restez vulnérables, dispersés une sorte d’amour délivré retour aux histoires, aux floraisons roses fragments puants […]

DREXCIYA or becoming transparent, translucent, transmaterial

    english version, sound mix: Lamin Fofana, featuring Drexciya’s “Cascading Celestial Giants”, Jeff Mills’ “Gravitational Lensing” german version DREXCIYA – Detroit Techno, Aquanauten und die Politik des Dancefloors, Künstlerhaus Dortmund | 27. Oktober 2017, 19:00 performative lecture with DJ-Set. Mit: DJ Dash, knowbotiq/Yvonne Wilhelm, Lamin Fofana & Zen Jefferson (photo: Anneke Dunkhase) knowbotiQ: «Drexciya […]