Institute for Uncertain Knowledge
IUK Berlin
A little owl on the tip of a standard is a symbol of science, good observation and wisdom, and at the same time feared as a messenger of death. As a guardian and witness to scientists being sworn in at Humboldt University, he underlines the effectiveness of the ritual of taking an oath to vouch for words and deeds.
By Svenja Schüffler
Both aesthetically and literarily, the project poses the question: “How to manage?“, and explores whether management in a high-tech civilization significantly fueled by fossil carbon follows this glorifying logic: Safeguarding energy supplies and technology projects takes absolute precedence over the accompanying side effects. Wouldn‘t that mean, that undesired consequences don‘t require prevention but just control, so to speak Management.
Continue reading “ART PROJECT: How to manage the Apocalypse?”
By Svenja Schüffler
Exhibition Galerie Kuchling, Berlin
11. May -11. July 2019
CONTROL ROOM (School) embodies the delicate concept of delegitimizing traditional institutions within the control room of fear, while simultaneously encouraging the emergence of new institutions focused on preventive measures. The control room functions as a metaphorical ghost train, where a novel alphabet of precaution is crafted through the display, transmission, confrontation, and synthesis of signals, fears, and messages. These themes are explored in the book “CONTROL ROOM School: A New Alphabet of Precaution.” The absence of control and accountability for irreparable consequences calls into question the legitimacy of conventional establishments, spanning not only insurance but also government, science, military, and business, along with their complicit roles.
CONTROL ROOM (Schule) verkörpert das heikle Konzept der Delegitimierung traditioneller Institutionen innerhalb des Kontrollraums der Angst und ermutigt gleichzeitig das Aufkommen neuer Institutionen, die sich auf präventive Maßnahmen konzentrieren. Die Kontrollzentrale fungiert als metaphorische Geisterbahn, in der durch die Darstellung, Übertragung, Konfrontation und Synthese von Signalen, Ängsten und Botschaften ein neuartiges Vorsorgealphabet geschaffen wird. Diese Themen werden im Buch “CONTROLL Room (Schule): Ein neues Vorsorgealphabet” erkundet. Das Fehlen von Kontrolle und Verantwortlichkeit für unabwendbare Folgen stellt die Legitimität herkömmlicher Institutionen in Frage, die nicht nur Versicherungen, sondern auch Regierung, Wissenschaft, Militär und Wirtschaft sowie ihre Mittäterschaft umfassen.
By Svenja Schüffler
JULY 3 – 6th, 2018
Symposium / Workshop: Developing a web portal for biodiversity research based on the hierarchy-of-hypothesis approach.
Conference Center, Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover
University Potsdam / Volkswagenstiftung
By Svenja Schüffler
May 8th 2018
Konrad Zuse Haus, University Rostock, 17 Uhr, Raum 110.
Die kollektive Prognoseplattform (Laplaces) Daemon mit der Online-Bibliothek WikiDaemon nähert sich dem Ungewissen und Zukünftigen, um ein Bewusstsein für mögliche zukünftige Katastrophen und deren Ursachen zu schaffen. Die Plattform lenkt den Blick gezielt auf Risikoabschätzungen, „Unsicheres Wissen“ und bislang unbeachtete Folgen des technischen, ökonomischen und politischen Handeln des Menschen, die zukünftige Katastrophen bedingen könnten.
Inhalt der Präsentation: Was sind die Zusammenhänge und Hintergründe die zur Entstehung des Konzepts geführt haben und wie ist der aktuelle Stand des konzeptionellen und technischen Aufbaus der Online-Plattform?
By Svenja Schüffler
12.01.2018 Kunstverein Tiergarten
“Dark, liquid” Vom Wissen und Nicht-Wissen des Meeres
In 2004 the Boxing Day tsunami took hundreds of thousands of lives. In answer, the German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System was established, as an attempt to reduce the risk of tsunamis along the cost of Indonesian. But these instruments to reduce risk such as risk assessment and management can become itself a source of risk, and therefore part of the problem. Continue reading “ARTIST LECTURE: Silence of Alarms”
With Svenja Schüffler, Anne Schreiber, Gregor Kanitz
Jan 12th 2018
Finnissage dark, liquid Galerie Nord/Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
From 2017-12-08 until 2018-01-13 the exhibition “dark, liquid”, curated by Julia Heunemann, took place at the Galerie Nord/Kunstverein Tiergarten.
Roger Wardin, Angela Glajcar, Jenny Michel, Reiner Maria Matysik, Gregor Peschko and Rona Lee presented art works questioning the knowledge of the sea. The spectator is confronted with sculptures, oceanographic records, movies, paintings, drawings, sounds and even a deepwater exploration vessel, which all show the ocean as a deeply aesthetic space, that delivers access only through practises, media and technical objects.
The IUK was invited to be part of the finissage and gave two presentations, summed up by a talk with Burkhardt Wolf, Visiting Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Continue reading “PERFORMANCE / TALK / FINISSAGE: “dark, liquid””
By Svenja Schüffler
http://www.wikidaemon.org/
WikiDaemon is one kind of a tool with whom we prepare for the unforeseen. The tool is being created as a free online and nonprofit platform. This platform is an art-science initiative created and designed for experimental reasons. In the tradition of a collaborative library, WikiDaemon will provide access and participation to anyone, while at the same time it focuses specifically on the prospection of unintended side effects, uncertainties and risks, that we map out to forecast our future disasters. This experimental platform aims to encourage “anticipating the consequences of human action or events and evaluating the desirability and moral quality of consequences”. (Renn, O. & Klinke, A., 2012): Space Matters! Impacts for Risk Governance. In: The Spational Dimensions of Risk, Müller-Mahn. D., p.1. Project by Svenja Schüffler
With Svenja Schüffler, Volker Kreidler, Studio Gampe, Moderation: Anne Schreiber
OCTOBER 16th 2017
O R G A N I C M E L T I N G P O T
Entrance : 4 5 , O O Euro | I n k l u s i v e A p e r i t i f & C a t e r i n g
Start: 7pm (Entrance 6:3O pm)
at BrockmannundKnoedlerSalon
An der Frauenkirche 1, O1O67 Dresden
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By Svenja Schüffler, Anne Schreiber
The project aims to design and critically reflect an Earthquake Early Warning Assistant of the near future. It experiments with scenarios of human-machine interaction via a series of multi-media performances that resemble a laboratory test room. The project will demonstrate a case study on the region of Istanbul and Almaty/Bishkek. It provides scenarios of rescue inside buildings: before, during and in the aftermath of an earthquake. The project is an interdisciplinary work between the artist and geoscientist Svenja Schüffler and the cultural scientist Anne Schreiber. The idea is based on Schüffler’s essay “KAIROS Earthquake Early Warning Application“, an outcome of the “Anthropocene Curriculum: The Technosphere Issue” at the HKW Berlin 2016. Project by Svenja Schüffler | Anne Schreiber, Berlin 2016.