Energetic Transfers: Technics, Ethics, and Production
Symposium organisiert von Alena Williams, Professorin für Theorie und Vermittlung zeitgenössischer Kunst, Institut für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften. In Zusammenarbeit mit eikones - Zentrum für Theorie und Geschichte des Bildes, Universität Basel, und der NOMIS Stiftung; in Partnerschaft mit dem Museum Tinguely Basel.
Programm
Donnerstag, 22.10.2026, 18–21 h
Symposium, Teil 1
Energetic Transfers: Technics, Ethics, and Production
Evening Program
Museum Tinguely
Paul Sacher-Anlage 2, 4002 Basel
18:30 h Eröffnungsworte
The Body Electric: Poetics and Politics
18:45 h Filmvorführung und Gespräch
Night for Day
Emily Wardill in conversation with Prof. Dr. Markus Klammer, Schaulager Professor for Art Theory, Universität Basel
British artist and filmmaker Emily Wardill's Night for Day (2020) is a video installation anchored by two sets of interviews. The first features Isabel do Carmo, an endocrinologist who co-founded the anti-fascist Revolutionary Brigades in Portugal; and second is with two young men who are in the midst of establishing a machine-learning startup company for recognizing moving images in 2019. Night for Day was a commission for a solo show at Secession, Vienna and won the European Media Art Festival Award in 2021.
20 h Curator’s Walkthrough
Labouring Bodies exhibition
Dr. Sandra Beate Reimann, Curator, Museum Tinguely
Labouring Bodies explores the relationship between the body, labour and technology from a feminist perspective. With its focus on working with machines, the technologisation of production and reproduction, and women’s contribution to technological progress, the show invites us to rethink our notions of the body, labour and care.
Freitag, 23.10.2026, 13:30–18 h
Symposium, Teil 2
Energetic Transfers: Technics, Ethics, and Production
eikones - Center for the Theory and History of the Image
Universität Basel
Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel
13:30 h Einführung
Matters of Energy and Resistance
14 h Vortrag
Entropy and the Chronopolitics of Modernity
Prof. Dr. Ana Teixeira Pinto, Professor for Art History and Digital Cultures, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
14:30 h Vortrag
Marronage, Labour, and Reproductive Energy: Expanding the Age of Revolutions
Prof. Dr. Mary Grace Albanese, Assistant Professor in Postcolonial and English, Trinity College Dublin
15 h Kaffeepause
15:15 h Vortrag
The Tellurian Lubricant: From Measurement to Metaphor
Dr. Thomas Max Turnbull, Department on Knowledge Systems and Collective Life, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
15:45 h Diskussion
Atomic Activism, Labor and Enervation in Eastern Europe
16:15 h Vortrag
Chronopolitics of Post-Socialist Radiation
Aleksei Borisionok, Doctoral Candidate, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
16:45 h Vortrag
Reenacting Revolution
Dr. Ana Adamović, Postdoctoral Researcher, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
17:15 h Diskussion
17:30 h Pause
18 h Vortrag
Aesthetic Conation in the Milieu of Anti-Fascist Psychiatry in Saint-Alban
Prof. Dr. Isabell Lorey, Professor of Queer Studies, Academy of Media Arts Cologne
19 h Apero