Shape-shifting, disorientation, and a search for new coordinates are amongst the layers of the d14 Sessions. Beginning in the summer semester 2016, these weekly sessions are led by the documenta 14 team and visiting artists together with the students of the Kunsthochschule and Universität Kassel, moving along trajectories of thought and practice together.
Contributors to Summer Semester April–July 2016: Marina Fokidis, Hendrik Folkerts, Henriette Gallus, Natasha Ginwala, Irena Haiduk, Annette Kulenkampff, Quinn Latimer, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Paul B. Preciado, Dieter Roelstraete, Roee Rosen, Mira Starke, Monika Szewczyk, Adam Szymczyk, and special guests
Aye! no monuments,
No literature,
No scrolls or canvas-drawn pictures
Relate the wonders of our yesterday.
How frustrated the searchings
of the educators.
Let them find
Land names,
Titles of seas,
Rivers;
Wipe them not from memory.
These are our monuments.
—Rita Joe
Colloquium
The documenta 14 Colloquium is a series of curator-and-artist led sessions, workshops, and short residencies between the Kunsthochschule Kassel, Universität Kassel, and the Athens School of Fine Art. The sessions examine subjects ranging from the urban landscape to listening, conservation and ruin, corpo-literacy and the night, using a variety of formats—such as talks, field trips, walks, and soundings, as well as public lectures. Occasional special guests also feature within the program, invited by the curator or artist leading the session. Associated reading and preparation materials are provided before each session in the form of a short reader.
