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For her exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern, Daniela Ortiz ( beloved guest of DAI in 2025 and 2019) is addressing director iLiana Fokianaki’s overall enquiry into the Plantacionocene as a locus from which we can further understand the intersections of social and environmental justice. With A Drop of Milk, Ortiz presents a new body of work that discusses the violence inflicted on the global majority's territories, people, fauna, and flora, through the rationing, control or over-production of certain foods, by the agricultural industries. What is the value of a drop of milk? What does hunger mean? A Drop of Milk examines how access to nourishment is shaped by imperial legacies, corporate monopolies, and economic warfare. It situates hunger within a planetary system in which food is no longer primarily cultivated and shared, but instead monitored, withheld, rationed, commodified, artificially enhanced but also used as a means of control, and at times, as a form of punishment. A Drop of Milk proposes a critical cartography of the politics of hunger under the current neo-liberal and neo-colonial order. The exhibition focuses on economic sanctions, trade blockades, food monopolies and deliberate strategies of deprivation imposed by powers of the so-called Global North, foregrounding, in particular, the role of Switzerland and its corporations in undermining access to food in the global majority. Hunger here is not addressed as the result of accidental or “natural” scarcity, but as a calculated device of domination, exercised either through sanctions or monopolized control.

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Read more about (and watch and listen to) DIACYCLES, an awesome project by Ines Marita Schärer (DAI, 2018) for which she collaborated with composer Julian Zehnder and with children and the teachers of of the elementary school Spiegel Köniz. "The bell has a specific task in everyday school life; it functions as a time marker, which marks the beginning and end of each lesson. But how can a break bell be rethought and composed in a contemporary learning environment, as well as support and accompany the schoolchildren and teachers in their everyday life? These questions were decisive for the newly developed concept; instead of an authoritarian signal, the bell is to be understood as a pulsating element that invites, be it to gather and learn together, to take a break or to go home. This approach takes into account natural rhythms, such as the times of day, moods, learning phases, etc. The project leaves the signal as an organ of control and proposes an acoustic experience characterized by a collective listening: depending on the time of day and the mood, both calm and animating spheres of sound are heard, lasting several minutes."

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Florian Göttke (senior co-ordinator theory@DAI) presents "Performance and Perception: Make Belief and Aspect Change" at the Symposium on Aspect Change ~ with interdisciplinary contributions from international researchers in the arts, philosophy, geography, design, literature, cognitive science. Hosted by Tine Melzer ~ INSTITUT PRAKTIKEN UND THEORIEN DER KÜNSTE.

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Livio Casanova (DAI, 2019) invites us to KOSMICK KOKOON ~Jan 27 till Feb 10 at THE FLAT.

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Sandra Schäfer invites us to join one of several screenings of "Constructed Futures: Haret Hreik"

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