Art in Space and Time

Lecture Series

The first two decades of the 21st century have seen new relations constantly reformulated between art and science, between states of mind and media, as well as all the material effects of mediation. Altered States lecture series is part of the AISAT research program. It is designed to open out questions of methodologies such as thick description, listening practices, and artistic formulations that produce different perceptions.


Fall 2024

Rosângela Rennó: Between Documents and Monuments: Strategies to Discuss and Fight Invisibility and Erasure


Raqs Media Collective:  When do we meet at the Cavalcade?


Michael T. Taussig: Postcards for Mia




Spring 2025

Elizabeth Price: Here We Are


Paola Yacoub: Extended Actionism




Fall 2025

Nida Sinnokrot & Sahar Qawasmi: SAKIYA


John Smith: Being John Smith


Jules Reidy: Ghost/Spirit at Cabaret Voltaire




Spring 2026

Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian: Thinking in Action: An Open Conversation on Radical Imagination and Experimental Practices


Cinema and the City in the Age of Planetary Urbanization Panel with Prof. Dr. Rosa Barba, Prof. Dr. Volker Pantenburg, Dr. Darcy Alexandra, and Prof. Hubert Klumpner Moderated by Nitin Bathla, Silvia Cipelletti, Markus Lähteenmäki, and Klearjos E. Papanicolaou.


Prof. Dr. Suely Rolnik: What does the unconscious have to do with politics? And what does this have to do with art?