Present Tense –  Working in Critical Times, 2024

Including texts and artistic ‘Cartes Blanches’ by Gin Bahc, Sascia Bailer, Sina Hensel, Alistair Hudson, Anne Duk Hee Jordan & Pauline Doutreluingne, Valentina Karga, Ronald Kolb, Matriarchale Volksküche, Jacob Ott and Dorothee Richter.

How is the work of artists and cultural producers changing in today’s crisis-ridden times? What does it mean to develop an ecologically and socially sustainable artistic and curatorial practice? How can artistic spaces and cultural institutions become places of active social transformation? This volume, published to accompany the Kunstbüro’s symposium of the same name, begins with the immediate present as its starting point and asks what (social) role art and its producers can play in a radically changing world.

Language: German and English
Publication design by Maximilan Haslauer
Edited by Kunstbüro der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Regina Fasshauer & Antonia Marten
Published by Kunstbüro der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg & OnCurating

Hybrid Tools for Thought, 2023

eds. Hannah Groninger, Sina Hensel, Christina Klug

contributors: Marlon Brownsword, Lidia Gasperoni, Hannah Groninger, Sina Hensel, Christina Klug, Anja Neuefeind, Vesela Tabakova

Hybrid Tools for Thought is a research and teaching project by Hannah Groninger, Sina Hensel and Christina Klug, funded by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia. This publication serves as a reflection of the knowledges gained through the project, which was implemented from 2020-23 in the Department of Visual Arts, RWTH Aachen University. Physical, material, and technological actions were experimentally examined and dealt with on equal terms in three different modules on ceramics, colour, and body techniques. In the context of digitization at the interface of algorithmic description and empirical experience, current questions concerning built, lived, and appropriated 'co-environments" are addressed.

Publication design: Lina Etzkorn, 380 pages, hand-bound

RWTH publications

SUNSCREEN CATALOGUE, 2021

eds. Sina Hensel, Rosa Whiteley

Skins in different bodies — cells, species, ecologies, territories and technologies — often change colour in a reaction to UV light. Chemical »alarms« in cells trigger inflammation and metabolic mechanisms produce protective pigments. Leaves flash red, algae secrete pink, whilst humans smear shades of white. As climate related stress amplifies, colours strain to perform resistance. These colours act as both a defence and a signal for the intensity of the sun; bearing the impressions of the weather-world. ›SUNBURN‹ explores the spaces between colourful feral ecologies, and synthetic post-human skins; uncovering methods of living in a hotter, sun- scorched Earth. Whilst sunscreening occurs differently in different species, from whales to trees, this catalogue is not organised through biological taxonomy. Instead, it explores four methods and acts of sunscreening; Spraying, Secreteing, Smearing or Costuming. Each page describes the colour, chemicals and stories behind a different sunscreening method.

published in the framework of JUNCTIONS 21, PACT Zollverein, Essen/GER

92 pages, FSC-certified paper, perfect bound 

supported by PACT Zollverein, Essen, GER, VLAANDEREN DEPARTEMENT CULTUUR, JEUGD & MEDIA, BE and RWTH Aachen University, GER