As part of the temporary exhibition Tuning In – Acoustics of Emotion, the Museum invites you to a two-day workshop with artist Marco Donnarumma, taking place on 19 and 20 July 2025.
This workshop is designed for Deaf and hard-of-hearing participants who use French Sign Language. Together with the artist, participants will share ideas for prosthetic devices that celebrate diverse forms of perception. The group will explore approaches to the design, engineering, and manual crafting of sensors, robotics, and prostheses that reflect and engage with the uniqueness and variety of human perception.
The workshop will take place over two days, on Saturday and Sunday. French Sign Language interpretation will be available throughout the event.
Attendance is free of charge, but registration is required. Please note: places are limited!
About the workshop:
"Western society teaches us that there is only one system of perception — that of the able, productive body. But there are as many modes of perception as there are bodies. I consider Deafness, for example, as another way of listening. In this sense, listening happens in a complex sensory context where touch, vision, and proprioception intertwine in different intensities.
To think of perception as a field of multiplicities opens up infinite possibilities for artistic experience. Bodily technologies — such as sensors, robotics, and prostheses — also play a key role: they can be normative, pushing the body to conform to 'normality', or they can be imaginative, defiant, and autonomous."
— Marco Donnarumma
Practical information:
Dates: 19 and 20 July 2025
Time: 10:00 – 17:00
Price: Free, registration required
This workshop is intended for Deaf and hard-of-hearing participants with knowledge of French Sign Language.
Since the early 2000s, Berlin-based artist, performer, director and theorist Marco Donnarumma (1980, DE) has been forging links between contemporary performance, new media art and interactive computer music. Donnarumma holds a PhD in Performing Arts, Computing and Theory of the Body from Goldsmiths, University of London. Recently he has been a Medienkunst Fellow at medienwerk.nrw and PACT Zollverein, Essen, and is currently a Research Associate at Intelligent Instruments Lab, Reykjavik.
