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Werner Herzog

Bluhm-Kaul Keynote

Reflecting on six decades of filmmaking in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Herzog examines how poetic forms of insight that transcends factual accuracy can endure in a world increasingly shaped by digital illusion. 

Sympathy for the Devil in the Machine

Paul Chan and Paul′

Paul Chan demonstrates the latest version of his synth Paul′, and talks about the philosophical, psychoanalytic, and thanatological influences that have shaped it.

On Friends and Strangers

Glenn Ligon and Thelma Golden

Glenn Ligon and Thelma Golden offer a glimpse into the shared histories, mutual influences, and evolving dialogues that continue to shape their lifelong friendship.

Historical Fictions, Future Myths

Álvaro Enrigue and Adrián Villar Rojas

Moderated by Evan Calder Williams, Adrián Villar Rojas and novelist Álvaro Enrigue manifest speculative fictions that reframe how we relate to the linear narratives we have constructed around time.

Francis Kéré

Bluhm-Kaul Keynote

Drawing on his architectural projects from schools and cultural centers to civic buildings, Francis Kéré reflects on architectures role in the support and strengthening of community life in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist.

After On Blue

P. Staff and Jamieson Webster

P. Staff talks with psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster about the intersections of dreams and consciousness, and mortality and breath following the performance of Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Rafiq Bhatia’s On Blue.

Life As No One Knows It

Sara Imari Walker and Sophia Al-Maria

Physicist and astrobiologist Sara Imari Walker and artist Sophia Al-Maria delve into physics and art through the lens of speculative futurism to consider what forms of life lie on and beyond our planet and understanding.

The Layered Histories of Buildings

José Esparza Chong Cuy and Frida Escobedo

Curator José Esparza Chong Cuy and architect Frida Escobedo consider how architecture is not only shaped by design, but by the layered histories it holds.

Off-Modernism

Aria Dean and Courtney J. Martin

Introduced by Simon Castets, Aria Dean and Courtney J. Martin engage in a critical exchange that reframes legacies of modernism from within.

Art and Consciousness after AGI

Anil Seth and Zoë Hitzig

Moderated by Evan Calder Williams, neuroscientist Anil Seth and poet and technologist Zoë Hitzig delve into the evolving concept of consciousness as it relates to the rise of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Introduced by the Doris Duke Foundation’s Sam Gill.