Small focused displays of literature, art and writing about the art-science interface stimulates discussion.

Question creation: 106 Question to a Dinosaur by Rachel Garber Cole exemplifies the need to focus on the urge to ask the right question (see also our collaboration here). This project served as one of the incentives to develop The Question Machine (a project concept developed with Nathaniel Stern) and The Question Factory concept.

 

 

 

Art as a weapon: Gor Sudan’s Crucifixion (from the series of work called Protest Wires made after the ethnic violence in Kenya in 2011), Friedrich Wolf’s 1928 manifesto Kunst ist Waffe and his 1929 play Cyankali, and Marcia Kure’s Rage, all show how powerful art can be as a call for social change.

 

 

 

Peter Walala’s woven wall piece using clothing tags as well as as Nathaniel Stern’s pyrolyzed electronics (from the exhibition The World After Us) speak to re-imagined materials,- but also to artistic practice of handling materials.

 

 

 

 

Germaine Krull’s 1928 photo book METAL which introduced a new perspective to photography, as did her pictures of poor communities.