The leathered instruments continue to be played in performative settings. In the performance Lieder in Leder* Kruse sings songs from Chöre & Soli, half-hidden in a column of leather. She is accompanied by her daughter Edda Kruse Rosset on the leather-covered drums. All instruments are used in Konzert in Leder, and Kruse beats the metal sheets printed with the lyrics of the songs, which create a clattering counter-sound to the instruments muffled by the leather. Sophia Bicking, Danielle de Picciotto, Alexander Hacke, Edda Kruse Rosset and Alma Neumann accompanied Kruse at the one-off concert on April 10, 2025, at the Berlinische Galerie. The performances Lieder in Leder and Konzert in Leder are included in the e-book as videos.

*Lieder in Leder are based on the short acappella songs from the box Chöre & Soli by Die Tödliche Doris, published in 1984 by Gelbe Musik, Berlin, and Pure Freude, Düsseldorf.

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Such a philosophical approach offers an effective theoretical tool for opening up original and pointed perspectives to redefine the crisis of anthropocentrism by putting the place and capacities of what is human in relation to what is non-human, be it living or technical. Helmuth Plessner’s work is really brought into play here and serves as the basis for experimental performances and the formulation of new concepts.

The publication gathers two films by Sylvie Boisseau & Frank Westermeyer, which are accessible in full length together with the book, as well as the text by David Zerbib:

– Der Freie Mensch – mit KI, Germany/Switzerland, video 4k, 7:43 min, 2019
– ƒ zwischen den Stufen des Organischen, Germany/Switzerland, video 4k, 20:40 min, 2021
– David Zerbib, Der Mensch, der Hund, der Roboter und die Seerose. Philosophische Anthropologie und Ästhetik des Falls ƒ, 2021

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Over the past decade Wolf has developed an interdisciplinary practice, which incorporates and overlaps installation, performance, and experimental workshop formats, in which the practice of self- and collective DIY publishing often serves as a kind of porous container to re-combine and bundle their multifaceted activities with text.

The publication gathers together these texts, traversing particular cultural and historical sites, the lived present and imagined futures, incorporating auto-fiction and anecdote as part of a tradition of queer-transfeminist working class vernacular and ethics, promiscuous and adept at working within limitations.

Scriptings’ reader format “Political Scenarios” is published in collaboration with Archive Books and the e-book publisher EECLECTIC. The aim is to publish carefully selected scripts and texts by artists that refer neither to academic nor to purely literary forms of writing, but embed “text” as an integral part of a contemporary political art practice.

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Fixed in corporate and state systems more firmly than numeric tax IDs or IP addresses, names are generally no longer treated as language, but as lexically opaque formulas. In their indifference to language diversity, authorities are known to rephrase, reorder, and re-alphabetize names when they don’t fit their administrative standard. They are also known to deny rights to people who have no “name label.”

In the fictive worlds represented in this book, society is not centralized, not oversized, and self-naming is brought forward as a form of self-empowerment and resistance.

Scriptings’ reader format “Political Scenarios” is published in collaboration with Archive Books and the e-book publisher EECLECTIC. The aim is to publish carefully selected scripts and texts by artists that refer neither to academic nor to purely literary forms of writing, but embed “text” as an integral part of a contemporary political art practice.

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This is about the search for the sculptural conditions of what reality provides and the historically invisible. About how we can react to urban space in a situational-spatial and performative-materialised way. What does it mean artistically (but also for urban planning) to be active in public space, if you are interested in being socially effective?

All these approaches, temporary developments and implementations are done with different partners on site and with various authors.

Starting in Rome, where Erik Göngrich was residing from September 2018 to July 2019.

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This is about the search for the sculptural conditions of what reality provides and the historically invisible. About how we can react to urban space in a situational-spatial and performative-materialised way. What does it mean artistically (but also for urban planning) to be active in public space, if you are interested in being socially effective?

All these approaches, temporary developments and implementations are done with different partners on site and with various authors.

Starting in Rome, where Erik Göngrich was residing from September 2018 to July 2019.

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This is about the search for the sculptural conditions of what reality provides and the historically invisible. About how we can react to urban space in a situational-spatial and performative-materialised way. What does it mean artistically (but also for urban planning) to be active in public space, if you are interested in being socially effective?

All these approaches, temporary developments and implementations are done with different partners on site and with various authors.

Starting in Rome, where Erik Göngrich was residing from September 2018 to July 2019.

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This is about the search for the sculptural conditions of what reality provides and the historically invisible. About how we can react to urban space in a situational-spatial and performative-materialised way. What does it mean artistically (but also for urban planning) to be active in public space, if you are interested in being socially effective?

All these approaches, temporary developments and implementations are done with different partners on site and with various authors.

Starting in Rome, where Erik Göngrich was residing from September 2018 to July 2019.

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This is about the search for the sculptural conditions of what reality provides and the historically invisible. About how we can react to urban space in a situational-spatial and performative-materialised way. What does it mean artistically (but also for urban planning) to be active in public space, if you are interested in being socially effective?

All these approaches, temporary developments and implementations are done with different partners on site and with various authors.

Starting in Rome, where Erik Göngrich was residing from September 2018 to July 2019.

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This is about the search for the sculptural conditions of what reality provides and the historically invisible. About how we can react to urban space in a situational-spatial and performative-materialised way. What does it mean artistically (but also for urban planning) to be active in public space, if you are interested in being socially effective?

All these approaches, temporary developments and implementations are done with different partners on site and with various authors.

Starting in Rome, where Erik Göngrich was residing from September 2018 to July 2019.

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This is about the search for the sculptural conditions of what reality provides and the historically invisible. About how we can react to urban space in a situational-spatial and performative-materialised way. What does it mean artistically (but also for urban planning) to be active in public space, if you are interested in being socially effective?

All these approaches, temporary developments and implementations are done with different partners on site and with various authors.

Starting in Rome, where Erik Göngrich was residing from September 2018 to July 2019.

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