Transformation Marathon

Participants
John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi
Rönnskog established Territorial
Agency, an independent organisation
that combines architecture,
analysis, advocacy and action for
integrated spatialtransformation
of contemporary territories. Recent
projects include the Anthropocene
Observatory—an international
documentary project tracing
the emerging thesis of the new
man-made age, developed with Armin
Linke and Anselm Franke, which
was exhibited at HKW in Berlin
and BAK basis voor actuele kunst,
Utrecht; The Museum of Oil, a
project in collaboration with
Greenpeace and Dare; The Museum
of Infrastructural Unconscious;
North; Unfinishable Markermeer.
They teach at the AA Architectural
Association in London and are
research fellows at the Centre for
Research Architecture, Goldsmiths,
University of London.
Time is Away and somewhere else
every month on NTS Radio. Each
hour-long programme uses music,
alongside snippets of spoken word,
to make something that is partsoundscape,
part-essay for the radio.
Jalal Toufic is a thinker and a mortal
to death. He was born in 1962 in
Beirut or Baghdad and died before
dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois.
His books, many of which were
published by Forthcoming Books,
are available for download at his
website (jalaltoufic.com). He
was a participant in the Sharjah
Biennials 6, 10 and 11, the 9th
Shanghai Biennale, and Documenta
13. In 2011, he was a guest of
the Artists-in-Berlin Program
of the DAAD; and in 2013-2014,
he and Anton Vidokle led Ashkal
Alwan’s third edition of the
Home Workspace Program, based
in Beirut.
Dorothea von Hantelmann is
documenta Professor at the Art
Academy/University of Kassel
where she lectures on the history
and meaning of documenta. Her main
fields of research are contemporary
art and theory as well as the history
and theory of exhibitions. She is
currently working on a book that
explores exhibitions as ritual spaces
in which fundamental values and
categories of modern, liberal and
market-based societies historically
have been, and continue to be,
practised and reflected. She is the
author of How to Do Things with
Art, a book on performativity within
contemporary art.
Peter Wächtler (born 1979, Germany)
lives in Brussels. His recent solo
exhibitions include, Help me Buddy!
Reena Spaulings, New York, 2014;
Senator!?, dépendance, Brussels,
2013; Springtime, Kunstverein
Hildesheim, 2013; b.a.c.k, Ludlow 38,
New York, 2013; Salon Of Fear,
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2013; Das
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