Description: FORMATIONS is a transversal working group, consisting of practitioners from varying disciplines.
is a transversal working group, consisting of practitioners from varying disciplines, including the arts, philosophy, human geography, computational biology, yoga, urban design, cultural and literary studies, and political activism, led by Alex Martinis Roe and Melanie Sehgal. The experimental set-up of this group aims at practical responses to the insufficiency of modern categories of thought and their disciplinary and institutional sedimentations. FORMATIONS is an attempt to relearn to communicate across
is an artist and researcher and is Senior Lecturer and Head of Drawing and Printmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne and co-leads FORMATIONS with Melanie Sehgal. She is a former fellow of the Graduate School at the University of the Arts Berlin, and holds a PhD from Monash University, Australia. Her project To Become Two (2014-2018) —a series of films, workshops, public events and a monograph To Become Two: Propositions for Feminist Collective Practice (Berlin and Milan: Archive Books, 201
holds a PhD in Philosophy and is Assistant Professor of Literary, Science and Media Studies at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). Currently, she is serving as Professor of Philosophy of Culture at European University Viadrina. She initiated the experimental working group FORMATIONS against the background of her research interests: forms of speculative thinking beyond the nature/culture divide such as classical pragmatism, process philosophy and science and technology studies and a general i