Dear friends,
reboot: responsiveness presents: Asynchronicity. A symposium-like gathering, hosted by Cally Spooner.
With Paul Abbott & Will Holder, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, Taina Bucher, Elizabeth Freeman, Hendrik Folkerts, Irena Haiduk, Dana Luciano, Martina Roß-Nickoll, Cally Spooner with Sanna Blennow and Melodie Giron, Mark von Schlegell, Jesper List Thomsen, Jackie Wang and films by Pierre Bal-Blanc and Frances Scholz.
On Saturday, May 7, 2022, [removed] am – [removed] pm at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Hahnenstr. 6, 50667 Cologne and on Sunday, May 8, 2022, 11 am – 8 pm at Ludwig Forum, Aachen.
Free Admission, no registration required.
All contributions are in English. In Aachen, simultaneous translation into German is provided.
Asynchronicity. A symposium-like gathering
Asynchronicity is a symposium-like gathering of choreographies, lectures, sounds, screenings, and discussions assembled by artist Cally Spooner with reboot: responsiveness at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne and Ludwig Forum Aachen. Asynchronicity takes as its backdrop the neoliberal paradigm of an always measurable performance. In this climate performance manifests at once as a regime of disciplinary power and a condition of everyday life, in which subjects constantly quantify, manage and stratify themselves until the social imagination and desire is deadened. Asynchronicity probes how such draining quests can be subverted by collectively fostering a resistance towards chrononormativity. Coined in 2010 by queer studies scholar Elizabeth Freeman (one of the gathering’s contributors), the term chrononormativity describes the prevalent use of time to organize human bodies toward maximum productivity.
Asynchronicity responds by unravelling the resistant potentials of becoming or remaining asynchronous. Over the course of two days, collaborators – artists, performers, musicians, theoreticians, dancers, curators and designers – are invited to unfold a diverse set of propositions for alternative, fugitive temporalities, affects and bodily practices that bend and subvert familiarity and which deliberately, or naturally, remain out of sync. Jointly introducing the notion of asynchronicity as an alternative, non-sequential mode of time, texts, movements, encounters and thoughts will collide across the partnering institutions in Aachen and Cologne.
Asynchronicity is part of Cally Spooners longterm research project Deadtime (since 2018) in which she finds and handles temporal structures beyond the Clock-Time standardizations that force labour, bodies, nervous systems, and digital technologies into a completely metric-orientated future. Conceived as the first of five assemblies hosted by the artist, that challenge the chrononormative order and the performance imperative implied.
While you may enter the symposium-like gathering in your own time – any moment or time span of preference – we suggest you experience its choreography in its entirety and in both cities, if possible.
Sat, May 7 at Kölnische Kunstverein
I GOT UP AT 8:59 AM OCT. 19 2021 by Pierre Bal-Blanc, adapted from I GOT UP AT 8:59 AM OCT. 19 1968 by On Kawara addressed to Dan Graham, is screened. Rosmarie Waldrop’s Lawn of Excluded Middle is read by Will Holder (vocals) and Paul Abbott (drums). Each reading comprises three fifteen-minute readings of three verses, to a maximum of six people. Deadtime, an opera in progress, is presented by Cally Spooner (lecture), Sanna Blennow (dance) and Melody Giron (cello) . Elizabeth Freeman introduces the audience to the concept of chrononormativity, with a historical frame. Mark von Schlegell reflects on his science fiction experiences with time travel. Taina Bucher engages in conversation on techno-dystopias, and ‘right time newsfeeds’. Jackie Wang examines how time is used as a technology of punishment inside prisons, then ends with a meditation on Black Quantum Futurism’s use of Afro-futurist sci-fi to create new political openings. Dana Luciano presents James McCune Smith, the 19th century physician, activist, who positioned geology as a site for the production of pleasure. Jesper List Thomsen reads FREEEee, a part lecture part folk song on dismantling representation. We conclude with Introduction To Feelings, Studio Feelings where Irena Haiduk casts from the year 2135 for 32 mins.
Saturday, May 7, 2022, [removed] am – [removed] pm
8:59 am Pierre Bal-Blanc: I GOT UP AT 8:59 AM OCT. 19 2021
10 am Cally Spooner with Sanna Blennow, Melody Giron and Jesper List Thomsen: Deadtime (Lecture and Introduction to Asynchronicity I)
11 am Elizabeth Freeman: On Chrononormativity: Histories and Possibilities
12 pm Jackie Wang: Carceral Temporalities and the Politics of Dreaming
1 pm Paul Abbott + Will Holder: Rosmarie Waldrop’s “Lawn of Excluded Middle”*
1 pm Lunch
2 pm Taina Bucher and Cally Spooner: On right time and Deadtime
[removed] pm Jesper List Thomsen: FREEEee 1
[removed] pm Dana Luciano: Freedom’s Ammonite: Blackness, Geomorphology, Worldmaking
[removed] pm Irena Haiduk: Introduction To Feelings, Studio Feelings
[removed] pm Alex Baczynski-Jenkins: A rehearsal for) Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless
6 pm Will Holder and Paul Abbott: Rosmarie Waldrop: Lawn of Excluded Middle
Kölnischer Kunstverein
Hahnenstraße 6, 50667 Cologne
Free Admission, no registration required.
All contributions are in English.
Sun, May 8 at Ludwig Forum Aachen
Rosmarie Waldrop’s Lawn of Excluded Middle is read by Will Holder (vocals) and Paul Abbott (drums). Each reading comprises three fifteen-minute readings of three verses, to a maximum of six people. Mark von Schlegell screens Frances Scholz’s YEAR OF THE WRITER, a time-capsule/fragmentary portrait of a sci-fi writer and the musical environment surrounding, in Los Angeles, 2004. Hendrik Folkerts presents the prologue to a symposium-like gathering on Duration in the spring of 2023, and an asynchronous lapse in this gathering. Jackie Wang analyzes the relationship between listening and power by examining the history of voice surveillance and voice printing technology. Elizabeth Freeman talks about chrononormativity and the asynchrony of personhood and collectivity during illness in the present day—COVID, and her own. Dana Luciano introduces Ellen Gallagher’s alignment with oceanic time, via ecologies formed from the corpses of whales—that might help us to imagine life anew. Biologist Martina Roß-Nickoll explains biodiversity and the temporality of meadows (lecture in German, simultaneous translation into English will be provided.) Irena Haiduk asks things to teach us how to live. Alex Baczynski-Jenkins presents a processual choreography that reflects on the relations of desire, dance, fragmentation, love (as communality) and time.
Sunday, May 8, 2022, 11 am – 8 pm
11 am Hendrik Folkerts with Cally Spooner and Irena Haiduk: DURATION symposium in the spring of 2023; an asynchronous lapse
12 pm Elizabeth Freeman: COVID, Cancer, Climate
1 pm Jackie Wang: Prisoner Voiceprints and the Carceral Laboratory
2:05 pm Paul Abbott + Will Holder: Rosmarie Waldrop’s “Lawn of Excluded Middle”*
2:05 pm Lunch
3 pm Dana Luciano: Oceanic Time and Black Feminist Futures
4 pm Prof. Martina Roß-Nickoll: A conversation on Meadows
4 pm Paul Abbott + Will Holder: Rosmarie Waldrop’s “Lawn of Excluded Middle”*
4:30 pm Mark von Schlegell: Introduction to YEAR OF THE WRITER, by Frances Scholz, 2004
[removed] pm Irena Haiduk: Prop positions
6 pm Alex Baczynski-Jenkins: (A rehearsal for) Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless
6 pm Paul Abbott + Will Holder: Rosmarie Waldrop’s “Lawn of Excluded Middle”
Ludwig Forum, Aachen
Jülicher Straße 97-109, 52070 Aachen
Free Admission, no registration required.
All contributions are in English. In Aachen, simultaneous translation into German is provided.
reboot: responsiveness
reboot: responsiveness is the first cycle of reboot: – a collaborative, multi-cycle, anti-racist and queer-feminist dialogue encompassing performance and research based practices, jointly presented by Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne and Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen.
Sponsored by: Kunststiftung NRW, Stiftung Kunstfond, Neustart Kultur
reboot:
Conceived by Eva Birkenstock, Nikola Dietrich, and Viktor Neumann
Core Collective: Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, Gürsoy Doğtaş, Klara Lidén, Ewa Majewska, Rory Pilgrim, Cally Spooner, and Mariana Valencia
Graphic design by Sean Yendrys
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