Narrative Machines Series and Exhibition-(un)Making
A conversation and pre-exhibition iteration by artist Lorenzo Sandoval and Jonas Tinius
Date: 20 June 2025 | 14:30 -15:30
Location: Foyer (Amo Salon), Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Entry: The event takes place in the Amo Salon and requires no prior registration
This conversation marks the beginning of a collaboration between the Berlin-Brandenburg Office for Everyday Culture with the artist, filmmaker, and curator Lorenzo Sandoval. His work has straddled the practice of art, cinema, and exhibition-making and offers a reflection on and intervention in the archival space of the Office for Everyday Culture. He has loaned some of his works from the “Narrative Machines Series” as functionable sculptures for exhibitions and display to the Office, and we will exhibit them as part of the workshop Expanding the Curriculum, organised by the EASA-network colleex, which takes place 16-19 October 2025 in the Institute for European Ethnology. This presentation and conversation marks a first iteration of the collaboration.
The event takes place in the Amo Salon and is a cooperation with the Amo Collective. The Amo Salon is a publicly accessible space in the center of Berlin that brings together artists, researchers, and members of the civil society to reflect on the city’s colonial past, its impact in the present, and implications for the future. The Amo Collective is a group of students, artists, scholars and members of civil society based at the Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, part of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The collective emerged through the anti-racist and decolonial struggles surrounding the renaming of our street after Afro-German Enlightenment philosopher and anti-racist pioneer of the early 18th century: Anton Wilhelm Amo.
For more information, visit the website of Lorenzo Sandoval and the website of the Amo Collective.
