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 […]
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 […]
->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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
b(l)ack dada: drone nonperformance DADA Universal, Landesmuseum Zürich, 3.3.2016, 19h live assemblage mit knowbotiq, dj fred hystère, teresa vittucci software: christoph stähli b(l)ack dada encounters the 100th anniversary of DADA Zurich with postcolonial and queer inscriptions into this historicized Avantgarde. Epistemic disobedience crosses the city`s festive repetition of the past, carnivalesque fugitivity strikes (neo)coloniality, confronts […]
link to kotomisi un:inform videochannel kotomisi: un-inform is an ongoing project which negotiate the aesthetic violence and empowerment of a female cloth in the history and the presence of the Black Atlantic. kotomisi denotes a piece of clothing of (former) female slaves of the Dutch colony Surinam after the 17th century and was […]
Zugriffe – die Obsession der Pflanzer Johann Jakobs Bibliothek Zürich Les Plantes Tropicales de Grande Culture +++ Sugar, Gold and Coffee +++ Ludivici’s Kaufmanns-Lexikon 5. Teil T bis Z +++ Land und Volk in Sumatra +++ Tegenwoordige Staat van Switzerland, Ita 1. Deel +++ Histoire des plantes de la Guiane Françoise: rangées suivant la méthode […]
A semi-fictive car race across Kosovan-European migration spaces, the project spread rumours and eluded stagings as it oscillated between unpredictable encounters, pseudo-events and political fictions. Did it happen, or was the event a non-event? “Black Benz Race builds on a rumour, one that invents itself and become its own precursor. Nocturnal […]