5 Years of the Humboldt Lab
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| The participation in the special anniversary program is free of charge and registration is not required. |
| 14 years and older |
| Humboldt Lab, 1st floor |
| Belongs to: Five Years Open |
To mark the fifth anniversary of the Humboldt Forum, the Humboldt Lab invites to a special program that brings together research, poetry, exhibition practice, and interactive participation.
At Meet the Scientist, agroecologist Marcel Robischon and musicologist Sebastian Klotz will provide insights into their research and engage in conversation with the audience. A special edition of the popular poetry slam format #Lokoskop combines science and language in surprising ways. Those interested in learning how an exhibition is created can explore key questions, background information, and perspectives on the On Water exhibition through three themed short tours led by members of the curatorial team. Children and families can take part in the WaterGestalten workshop, where they can build aquatic animals from recycled materials.
These formats are exemplary of the Humboldt Lab’s self-conception: it not only conveys knowledge, but also creates spaces for exchange, questions, and participation. While some of the programs were originally developed for the opening exhibition After Nature, others emerged from the current exhibition itself.
Programme
If science is queen at Humboldt Lab, then #Logoskop is her court jester. Since 2021, artistic freedom has been making monthly appearances at Humboldt University’s exhibition space, using literature to shake up the scientific perspective. Equipped with microphones and amplifiers, two slam poets wander through the exhibition and recite texts.
This time, slam poets Dominique Macri and Johannes Berger aka YUNUS will be joining us. Together, they will comment on the exhibition On Water with live recitations. Visitors are invited to accompany them on their tour of eloquence.
Curated by Bas Böttcher
Three themed short tours with members of the curatorial team offer different perspectives on the On Water exhibition and its central questions. This tour focuses on the exhibition section In the Bathroom (in German).
Science in the Dialogue with Marcel Robischon
Agricultural scientist Marcel Robischon explores the sea and birds, as well as the connection between species extinction and the loss of orientation in navigation at sea. With enthusiasm and expertise, he pursues interdisciplinary research questions — something he already demonstrated in his Meet the Scientist contribution to the exhibition After Nature exhibition. For the anniversary event, he has once again chosen a topic that, starting from the water, reaches far beyond disciplinary boundaries.
Three themed short tours with members of the curatorial team offer different perspectives on the On Water exhibition and its central questions. This tour is dedicated to the exhibition section In the City (in German).
If science is queen at Humboldt Lab, then #Logoskop is her court jester. Since 2021, artistic freedom has been making monthly appearances at Humboldt University’s exhibition space, using literature to shake up the scientific perspective. Equipped with microphones and amplifiers, two slam poets wander through the exhibition and recite texts.
This time, slam poets Dominique Macri and Johannes Berger aka YUNUS will be joining us. Together, they will comment on the exhibition On Water with live recitations. Visitors are invited to accompany them on their tour of eloquence.
Curated by Bas Böttcher
Three themed short tours with members of the curatorial team offer different perspectives on the On Water exhibition and its central questions. This tour explores the exhibition section At the Coast (in German).
In the face of climate change, the question arises whether we can understand the sea and the ocean in a different way than before. New artistic projects are engaging with the ocean in a sensitive manner: it is no longer dramatized, but reveals itself as a zone of complex intense dynamism that becomes sonically present in a fascinating way and possesses agency in its own right. Whale songs are integrated into techno sounds and experienced by us in a different way than in a scientific feature.
Musicologist Sebastian Klotz describes how new, responsible approaches to the ocean can be developed from this. Since multifaceted acoustic processes take place in the ocean, which are central, for example, to communication among marine mammals, an expanded sound and musicology of the living world is needed, one that engages in dialogue with ecosystem research and marine biology.
Based on the functioning of a hydrophone, which can be used to record acoustic phenomena in water, Sebastian Klotz provides insights into the emerging research field of aquatic musicology using his own recordings in the Aegean Sea.
Jellyfish, whales, penguins and boxfish: many fascinating animals live on, in and under water. Some of them are featured in the science exhibition On Water. In a creative workshop, children aged 6 and above – accompanied by their parents or another adult – can recreate a selection of aquatic creatures (with the help of instructions) and contribute their own design ideas. Discarded materials from the Humboldt Forum are used. Exciting and funny, but also sustainable animals are created, which can be taken home at the end.