Or Gallery Berlin is pleased to present Armen Avanessian and Andreas Töpfer in Drawing Speculative Poetics?, for the fifth in our speaker series Inclinations hosted by Patricia Reed.

In their lecture-drawing Armen Avanessian and Andreas Töpfer will present their thoughts on Speculative Poetics via their current book project on Speculative Drawing, a work in progress that experiments with visual thinking and the possibilities of translating words into images. We might be confronted with a similar othering as once described by Hegel on the ‘speculative sentence’ where the subject disappears and transforms itself in its object: thoughts changing their meaning when becoming images and images becoming readable as text.

Inclinations:
A monthly speaker series at Or Gallery Berlin, hosting philosophers, artists, curators, and…

The presentation of work revolves around the posing of a question that is the thrust of a guest’s activities. It goes without saying that questions may not be answered, but are grappled with in their unresolvability. An inclination is the force of attraction to a question (without a straightforward response), yet also to each other, as a community who partakes in a common quest(ion).
Hosted by Patricia Reed.

# Arriving at a question is already a departure.
# Questions are a declaration of departure.
# Arriving at a question in thought or activity is also the creation of a trajectory, of inclining oneself towards an unknown goal, yet not without direction.
# A question inclines a departure in a particular way, but a question itself is generic – it propels all modes of seeking some thing. Questions possess the force of bending and swerving ideas/action.
# A question is the confrontation and departure from a lack. To arrive at a question is to arrive at a gap in knowledge, action and speech – a gap that cannot be immediately filled in without the inclination towards something other.
# A question is indisciplinary; the inclining magnetism of a question knows no disciplinary bounds.

In Kooperation mit der Botschaft von Kanada/In collaboration with the Embassy of Canada