Starting at sunset (16:24) and ending at sunrise (8:12), the stay at the Kunsthalle offered new insights while being filled with sound pieces, screenings, performances, readings & food.
The night included a sound work by artist Adrian Williams, screenings with works by Roxana Olympia Seehof, Zauri Matikashvili, The Fort, Ceal Floyer, Daniel Steegmann Mangran, Harun Farocki, Ana Vaz, James Richards, Gabrielle Taron-Rieussec, Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Khimei a.o, Readings by Merle Radtke, Zahraa Khanafer, Peter Maria Volkhardt, a score by Alison Knowles, magma & moonchai and Endloses Salz by Joshua Karan Singh + Henri Schlösser, a sound performance by Paula Adhiambo Göb, a nightwalk to Oscar Tuazon´s „Burn the Formwork“ with Nicola Gördes, a lullaby by Arezoo Molaei, night caps by Noah Evenius & Merle Radtke, a night reading of Susan Buck-Morss, Aesthetics and Anaesthetics, Japanese Morning Gymnastics with Chiaki Nakaune among other things.
THE SWERVE is an interdisciplinary Time Based Media Lab for the unpredictable. It is also a platform for performance, the moving image, sound, experimentation and socialization, embracing spontaneous situated encounters. WiSe2/26 THE SWERVE invited Merle Radtke, since 2018 curator and director of Kunsthalle Münster. Together with her, we looked at the institution as a place for gathering and examine what it means to create a space for encounters, whereby knowing is reconceived as an embodied practice, one that is intimate and firmly rooted in emotional and reciprocal presence.
Thank you Merle Radtke and all contributing artists for an unforgettable night at the Kunsthalle Münster!
