Maxime Le Calvé

Humans are amusing creatures. They often choose to wrap various things on their bodies and call this practice ‘Wearing.’

How can one sense a cell? Cells are tiny creatures. They seem utterly foreign to our human scale – and yet they are the fabric of human and more-than-human bodies.

In Nanosciences, observing tiny things such as single molecules or single atoms also mean finding new ways to reach out to them.

Crawl into the tubular willow installation and imagine environments in other scales inside this Textile Space. Imagine you are inside a yarn, vessel or lichen filament on a rock.

This Korean structural textile made out of rattan is a personal cooling climatic device. It lifts hanbok away from the human skin to keep perspiration from clothes.

What is the cloud doing here? Enveloped in the centre of the rotunda by weak circular winds, a damp atmosphere entangled with various bodies of the exhibition space can be experienced.

Employing various forensic methodologies, Algorithmic Weathering explores the complex entanglements and metabolic processes laid out in Enveloping Atmospheres.

Through practice-based design methods and experimental formats on knowledge production, Imagining Suspended Care-riers invites you as a learning site to draw on the processes of capturing and measuring air qualities and components.

The virtual elevator lets us travel to other levels and experience other worlds.

The four columns around the center of the room have been here for over a hundred years. They are an integral part of the architecture.

In this exhibition, the virtual is not a simulation that functions independently of the physical outside world and has nothing to do with it. On the contrary: here, the virtual becomes tangible and walkable.

The willow installation is a special, active structure, woven simultaneously physically and digitally with complex algorithms.

Clouds are magical entities. We see figures in them that emerge and pass away again and again. It is infinitely complex to simulate clouds.

The artwork “Device” by the Berlin artist Sabine Huzikiewiz forms itself between design and art, between utilitarian object and object of observation.

The artist Anna Kubelik and the musician Oliver Schmid were invited to exhibit and perform the sculptural installation “Wohl-temperiertes Hygrometer” in the Objekt Labor.

Textile techniques have developed an immense knowledge throughout centuries. Upscaling these techniques is an alternative route to reach the architectural scale.

We cohabit with materials. They shape our body movements, mood, culture and politics.

In the VR experience of Studio Above & Below visitors enter an alternative time capsule that allows them to perceive the dynamic changes of weathering – a process so slow that is usually impossible to detect by the naked human eye.

Moisture is one of the key factors in weathering processes. Temperature and the chemical composition of rainfall also play a crucial role.

Quick illustrated report on the first round of installation of the “Stretching Materialities” exhibition at the Tieranatomisches Theater in Berlin, with the Object Space Agency team.

Combining interaction design, architecture, art history, computer science and anthropology, this exhibition stretches the disciplines in order to enter into sensuous resonance with the vibrant material world.

Playful approaches can directly affect our sensory faculties beyond the realm of power and knowledge. The »stretching senses school« is an education-as-research project at the Tieranatomisches Theater Berlin (TA T) attached to the exhibition Stretching Materialities.

How does time transform matter? Geologists know that stones are always in motion.

Geological knowledge is multisensory and closely linked to haptic, olfactory and sometimes even impressions of taste.

How does matter store time? How quickly or slowly does matter visibly change and what role does this play in collections?

The vitrines of the Tieranatomisches Theater date back to the 19th century when they originated to protect exhibition objects from visitors and their physicality: from their exhalations, their touch, their body heat. To this day, the quarantined object is our museum standard.

24 June, 6:15–7:45 pm, Performance Lecture

25 June, 6:15–7:45 pm, Closing Lecture. Introduction: Claudia Mareis (Co-Director MoA, HU Berlin)

The collaborative workshops with InKüLe are focused on the potential of artistic education to change our relations to the environment through an engagement at the level of anthropotechniques.

Workshops and interactive performances, Nov. 24 & 25 in Berlin

Anthropology+Poetry Writing Workshop with Anthropologist Stuart McLean

An AI-Assisted Ethnographic Report "in the style of Anton Chekhov"

Workshop and lecture with Marina Peterson, Maxime Le Calvé and Clemens Winkler on 26 June 2023