The second volume of ‘Basel Dialogues’ – the critical book series published by the HGK Basel – entitled ‘Desire for Transmission: On Movements of Materials and Knowledges ’ will be launched on 18 June 2026 at the Liste Art Fair Basel.
On Thursday, 18 June 2026, at 4 pm, the second volume of 'Basel Dialogues' – the critical book series published by Christoph Merian Verlag on behalf of the HGK Basel – will be presented as part of the Liste Art Fair Basel and will be introduced by Claudia Perren, Quinn Latimer, Pauline Julier, Jacqueline Loekito, and Matylda Krzykowski.
This new volume with the title 'Desire for Transmission: On Movements of Materials and Knowledges', traces the voices and ideas that are shaping the contemporary Academy of Art and Design and the most pressing issues of the day. A recurring theme is the desire for a new educational practice.
Composed of striking conversations from recent public symposia, intimate meetings, international festivals, and academic seminars, the dialogues feature the school’s professors, students, and their celebrated guests—from the fields of visual art, design, filmmaking, media theory, science, coding, and poetics—all grappling with transdisciplinary practices pursued amidst a multivalent world.
Their rich conversations cover technologies of transmission amid conditions of surveillance and resistance; trance techniques and cybernetics of the moving image; the languages of realism and fantasy that infuse both fashion and publishing; the immaterial histories of material knowledges; and contemporary image production’s role in justice. Taken together, the diversity of voices collected here speak to issues of theory and practice, art and science, poetics and politics, denying their opposition, while revealing the deep desire for social and artistic transformation that so often propels pedagogy forward.
In dialogue: Abhay Adhikari, Bakri Bakhit, Asia Bazdyrieva, Aleena Chia, Nadim Choufi, Diane Dever, Shuruq Harb, Ute Holl, Pauline Julier, Dorotheé King, Quinn Latimer, Zach Lieberman, Jacqueline Loekito, Vanessa Amoah Opoku, Ìfẹ́olúwa Ọ̀ṣúnkọ́yà, Claudia Perren, Filipa Ramos, Michael Renner, Bérénice Serra, Tai Shani, Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe, and Matthieu Vitse
Basel Dialogues is a critical book series published by the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW in two language editions.
The publication can be pre-ordered online from Christoph Merian Verlag.
Eckdaten
- Address
- Messe Basel
Halle 1.1
Maulbeerstrasse / Riehenring 113
4058 Basel - Occasions
- 18.6.2026, 16:00–17:30, Liste Art Fair Basel, Messe Basel, Halle 1.1, Maulbeerstrasse / Riehenring 113, 4058 Basel
Teilnehmen
Basel Dialogues: Presentation of the second volume of the HGK Basel book series at Liste 2026
- Date
- 18.6.2026, 16:00–17:30
- Place
- Liste Art Fair Basel
Messe Basel
Halle 1.1
Maulbeerstrasse / Riehenring 113
4058 Basel