Temperatures
An Online Series by Bonner Kunstverein, Kunstverein Nürnberg and Kunstverein München
February 23, 2021 – January 27, 2022
Temperatures is a cooperative year-long program of events including talks, readings, concerts, and performances expanding the digital space within the existing infrastructures of the three institutions.
In spring 2020, the Bonner Kunstverein, Kunstverein Nürnberg, and Kunstverein München have been gathering virtually. A recurring question has been how the Kunstverein as a collective structure, emerging from a self-organized impulse, can produce a meaningful space at a time when many of the assumptions of publicness, autonomy and care have been undergoing profound transformation and strain. The series continues in 2022 with further events.
Temperatures takes this space of questioning and reflection as a point of departure for a one year programme of online events. Bringing together artists, thinkers, activists and contributors whose voices we are interested in engaging at this moment in time, this series seeks to use, and at times also subvert, the space that the digital platform offers. The perspectives will shift in scale from the systemic and infrastructural, to the subterranean and personal, reflecting upon an extraordinary and difficult moment, whilst also looping back to that deceptively simple question of how we might think and desire beyond the question of a simple “return” to normality.
Temperatures VII
Adam Hines-Green (held in English)
January 27, 7pm
The talk will address the central importance of risk assessment and management in contemporary mental health care. It will consider the form of the individual subject implied by a focus on risk, to include both patients and professional practitioners such as psychiatrists. Touching on historical precedents, professional guidelines, and personal experience, it will ultimately ask how consideration of risk impacts on notions of care and responsibility in psychiatric services.
Graphic Design and Code: Studio Anna Cairns
The project is funded by Neustart Kultur of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, issued by the Bundesverband Soziokultur e.V.