Stretching Materialities.
Negotiating Boundaries in Exhibition Research

Stretching Materialities is an experimental approach to rethinking exhibitions in terms of “active matter”: not as a presentation of material knowledge and practices per se, but as an interactive and participatory research approach to new forms of activity emerging from the poiesis of the material.

The interdisciplinary exhibition at Tieranatomisches Theater (TA T) Berlin experimented with curatorial processes, the existing environment and its material-energetic resources, sound performances as well as the interweaving of physical and virtual matter. The group of researchers, made up of designers, architects, art historians, computer scientists and anthropologists, expanded materiality into temporal-spatial dimensions and new sensory experiences.

Beyond the exhibition, the publication now reflects on the process of “stretching” close to the material itself. The insights gained are interwoven with current contexts at the interfaces of artistic, research and technological knowledge practices. The six independent essays are supplemented by interviews (intermezzi) with participating artists and scientists. In addition to the complete PDF, the introduction, the six essays, and the interviews (intermezzi) can be downloaded as individual PDF files:

Front Matter

Content

Introduction 
 

Stretching Practices 
Clemens Winkler

Stretching Virtuality
Christian Stein

Stretching Spaces
Natalija Miodragović 

Stretching Time
Nina Samuel
 

Stretching Senses
and Sounding Neurons
Maxime Le Calvé
 

Stretching Senses
through the Haptic Hanbok
Yoonha Kim
 

Intermezzi

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