Oddity Nr. 19 – An Atlas of Spatial Figures

“An Atlas of Spatial Figures" is the title of the forthcoming
publication (to be released in autumn 2024) by CRC 1265 subproject
PIs Ignacio Farias and Silke Steets. The book gathers over 40
stories of CRC 1265 researchers discovering new spatial figures in
addition to the four previously identified dominant spatial
figures. For the book project, they collaborated with Viennese
artist Nikolaus Gansterer in multimodal workshops. This episode is
an excerpt from a performance lecture, which took place at the
international symposium "Spatial Figures in the Anthropocene" at
the ICI Berlin in October 2023. It provides insights into the
concept of the book and two performed "vectors of refiguration"
through two stories and the spatial figures they express.