Reading/Discussion with Sophia Eisenhut & Miriam Stoney "Sinngemäß"

Sinngemäß

Trajectories of Despair

Miriam Stoney’s installation "All along, the x-axis" at the Performance Passage is on view until 21 April. It features a graphic landscape of a possible autobiography, divided into seven light boxes. Categories of knowledge, experience and identification appear along an x-axis, perhaps representing something like "quality time" or some other variable through which life could be fitted into a narrative. Accompanying the installation is a publication that can be purchased at the on-site vending machine.

For the closing event of "All along, the x-axis", Miriam Stoney invites Sophia Eisenhut to stage a discussion together around the subjects that feed their respective bodies of work as well as their ongoing friendship: burdensome reading; attempts to channel thought otherwise (than) through language; the application of knowledge systems beyond disciplinary boundaries. The protracted duration of writing one another condenses into a single evening, in which each voice translates, repeats and responds to the other to address the audience through a redistributed subjectivity.