Talking Through Weibel

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Presented by The Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures as part of the exhibition ‘Thinking Through Weibel’ Talking Through Weibel asks a simple, far-reaching question: how do exhibitions and archives teach us – artists, researchers, and the wider public – how to see, remember, and think? Taking the current exhibition Thinking Through Weibel and the Weibel Archive as an opening path, this evening explores art as a learning system: how exhibitions and collections structure cultural memory, how digitization can widen (and bias) access, and how exhibition-making can produce embodied, situated knowledge that differs from conventional academic formats. Looking at Peter Weibel himself – artist, theorist, institution-builder – and drawing on his extensive, partly digital archive, the evening considers how large-scale collections can be made meaningfully accessible: through digitization and metadata practices, open interfaces and display strategies, as well as curatorial and pedagogical frameworks that invite plural forms of learning. The program begins with a guided tour of the exhibition, continues with a keynote on ‘What is Contemporary Art History?’ and culminates in a roundtable that considers exhibitions and archives as shared infrastructures of learning. Rather than closing a legacy, we open questions and methods – testing how playful, critical, and inclusive practices can shape what and how we learn together.Programme 17:30 Exhibition tour with Brooklyn J. Pakathi 18:30 Keynote lecture by Boris Čučković Berger 19:30 Round table / Discussion: Panelists: Robert Müller, Brooklyn J. Pakathi, Margit Rosen, Charlotte Reuß Moderation: Denise H. Sumi

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