Technologies of the Self

Technologies of the SelfIn 1982, Michel Foucault defined technologies of the self as techniques which permit individuals to effect by their own means a certain number of operations on their own bodies and souls so as to transform themselves. Ever since we have been able to tell a story, we have occupied ourselves with the one that lies at the center of the human condition: our quest to overcome our limitations in order to reunite the mortal with the divine. These

rewild half the Earth to absorb carbon emissions and restore biodiversity

Their webs have often been used as an analogy between the cosmic and the terrestrial webs of life

Kyuha Shim

The contributions vary in form from essays and poems to interviews and editorial pieces to series of photographs and experimental writing

even deadly

Left behind by a variety of people

Making Matters looks at art practices across all continents that do not conform to a Western concept of art nor to traditional distinctions between art

Part performance transcript

a dropout in the forests of Sweden as he slaughters a sheep

from the body to the scale of the environment

everyday act of resistance

The collective research conducted in the framework of the Bauhaus Lab in 2023 critically reflects on the far-reaching constellations