Eva Koťátková in conversation with Britta Peters about the exhibition My Body Is Not An Island

I am standing on the railroad platform. It is too late. Too early too. No more loudspeaker announcements at this hour, no electronic excuses. I just took Lena to her platform...

Dean Kissick talking to Irena Haiduk about how art might help us improve our world.

To what extent do working conditions influence our sleep behaviour? In the post-industrial era, do we sleep better or do digitalisation and the unboundedness of working conditions deprive us of sleep?

The whole universe is concentrated on a small screen with the bed floating in an infinite sea of information. To lie down is not to rest but to move. The bed is now a site of action.

“Many small human-like beings descend below the earth’s surface. In the book Der Bergbau und seine Kultur (Mining and its culture) 'different ways of entering' is written in the caption next...”

"Dear Old Man, I have been in your homeland for a few days now. Somewhat coincidentally, the inner motivation of this research trip may never be revealed to me [...]"

In these times of social distancing, curfews and closed borders, six voices from the world of art have considered certain questions.

Cities change in character. As factory buildings and shopping streets disappear, a globalized economy and digitized everyday life produces different urban spaces.

People today are experiencing in different and unevenly distributed ways, something that no generation before them has ever experienced: the ongoing loss of the planet as we know it.

Recently it was shown again: a white painted clapboard facade in the style of an American suburban detached house rolled through the streets of Detroit.

The world’s knowledge is harboured in PDFs that no one reads. Knowledge of our environment is there but the data generated by researchers and consultants cannot be found.

Over the last 250 years, surely no other landscape has been dug up, hollowed out, filled in and built over as much as the Ruhr region.

At the beginning of the Corona Crisis, art historian Ellen Wagner addressed the new flood of digital offerings in the blog of the exhibition project Making Crises Visible.

Water is the essence of life. Water and culture already have something in common then.

What is the aim of art mediation and what does this collective experiences mean for the aesthetic perception of artistic works?

To what extend can art contribute to the acceptance of a new reality?

The central social systems are based on us coming together, in schools, universities, parliaments, in courts and mosques – what has Corona made of this certainty?

In any case, on Thursday each week some twenty people assemble in front of their respective computer screens and, using Google Street View or such like, take a walk together.