Julien de Smet, Ronny Heiremans, Heike Langsdorf, Vanessa Müller, Filip Van Dingenen, Stijn Van Dorpe, Clémentine Vaultier, Katleen Vermeir / The Orphans of Tar – A Speculative Opera new their hands raised in front

their hands raised in front of their faces

these wearables are socio-technical constructions that mediate our relationship with the environment—they negotiate our daily struggles

from daily commutes to encounters in the busy streets

stochastic logic of matter—both its crystalline or organic growth and its complex degradation in its environment—that is outside of and contrary to our instrumental control

Julien de Smet, Ronny Heiremans, Heike Langsdorf, Vanessa Müller, Filip Van Dingenen, Stijn Van Dorpe, Clémentine Vaultier, Katleen Vermeir / The Orphans of Tar – A Speculative Opera new their hands raised in frontThe books included in the series Choreography as Conditioning are rooted in a cycle of work sessions entitled CASC at KASK, in which students work together with invited guests. They explore the notions of choreography, understood as ways of organizing subjects in their surroundings, and conditioning in both art making and society making. Where, how, and by whom are things organized and what kind of landscapes of experience are made (im)possible by the