WORKSHOPS
WORLDBUILDING / ARTEFACTS / SPECULATI0N20.09 – 22.09.2021 // 16:00 – 19:00
Nadalokal will welcome the adO/Aptive collective to host the workshops:
“Object Archaeology: Material Investigation – Symbolic Speculation”
and the “Glocal Worlding Sessions”
In the first workshop, they and the participants will engage with the material and cultural history of objects and artefacts that surround us every day in an interdisciplinary environment. This engagement will both take place on a research level and on an associative, creative level.
– How do we unite the benefits of artistic strategies with the facts of contemporary reality? How can we beneficially picture and discuss this reality in ways that do not just follow the classical ways of figuring truth?
In the „Glocal Worlding Sessions“ they will create spaces of localised agency and concentrated concealment. The core aim of this workshop is to foment and train forms of creative encoding and constructive decoding. In this first iteration of the workshop, we will mainly concentrate on the structural development of the sessions.
adO/Aptive foments critical thinking, potential action, communication and Otherness by adopting techniques to situate adaptive processes. It was first initiated as a reading group in 2019 and evolved into a fluid identity with its core_members now being Janina Weißengruber and Daniel Hüttler. Besides a regular reading group conducted at school in Vienna (link: https://www.weloveschool.org/ ) or online, they organize the rA/Upture conference (Oktober 2020 at nadaLokal in Vienna & May 2021 at OFF-Biennial Budapest), work on collective publications and other artistic projects at the intersection of experimentation, speculation and critique.
More information about the collective in their website:adO/Aptive