Miners Uruguay, Photo: Katharina Weinstock
In the joint lecture series thinking inside out by ZKM and HfG, we invite guests from the fields of philosophy, literature, and art to engage in an open exchange with university members, ZKM staff, and the people of Karlsruhe.
Location: Media Lounge, ZKM Karlsruhe, Lorenzstraße 19, 76135 Karlsruhe Time: 6pm Entrance fee: Free admission Language: German Hosts: Constanze Fischbeck (University of Arts and Design, HfG) and Alistair Hudson (ZKM)
On a sunny day in February 2023, a large iron sphere washed ashore on Enshu Beach (Japan). The object in the sand prompted a major response from the local police and subsequently made headlines in the international press for several days. Under headlines such as “Spy balloon, UFO, or Dragon Ball?” (The Guardian), images and video clips circulated showing men in protective suits approaching the sphere with X-ray devices while helicopters circled overhead.
“Post-Readymade” addresses artistically appropriated objects that are surrounded by a complex system of references, including infrastructures, sites of discovery, eyewitness accounts, and origin stories. With works by Luke Willis Thompson, Hito Steyerl, and Lindsay Lawson in view, Katharina Weinstock traces the reception histories of Duchamp’s “Readymade” and Breton’s “Objet Trouvé” in parallel, developing from their interplay the new term “Post-Readymade.”
"Post Readymade" can be found as a free download here
Porträt Katharina Weinstock, Photo: Jehad Othman
About the guest:
Katharina Weinstock (Dr. des.) is an art historian with a focus on visual studies, modern & contemporary art. She studied "Art Research & Media Philosophy" and "Curatorial Practice" at HfG Karlsruhe, as well as "Cultural Studies" at the KIT (Studium Generale) and at HU Berlin. She was a doctoral candidate in the DFG Research Training Group “The Problem of the Real in Modern Culture” at University of Konstanz, which enabled exchange with Yale University, as well as research residencies at the Getty Center Los Angeles and UCLA. Since 2013, she has been teaching seminars on modern and contemporary art at various German universities such as UdK Berlin, University of Konstanz and Bauhaus University Weimar, where she supervised students from the fields of art, design and art history. In 2019, she became a Research Associate in the "Art Research & Media Philosophy" department at the HfG Karlsruhe. In 2020, she founded the interdisciplinary online journal UMBAU, for which she wrote the concept, put together a small team, implemented infrastructures and managed budgets. Beyond her academic vita, she has worked for galleries, artists and museums such as the Gropius Bau Berlin and writes art criticism.
