Webinar Series differential doings, europes in margins Session 3

We are excited to invite you to the next session of our webinar series, differential doings, europes in margins. Registration for the webinar series is open.

This session brings together Clara Balageur (XPUB, Piet Zwart Instituut) and Vishnu Vardhani Rajan (body philosopher).

Title: Gentle Asphyxia: Circlusion, Embrace, and Collapse of Institutional Bodies

Date: 15 October 2025

Time: 15:30-17:00 (Dutch time)

In this session Clara Balaguer presents fleshy notes on imagining how extra-institutional publishing practices can (and do) nest inside institutions to transform established pathways of knowledge production, circulation, and access to intellectual capital. The bio-mythical conditions of the strangler fig (and other epiphytes) inform crucial questions about the limits of canonical structures we have inherited that no longer serve us, not because they have no value but because the scale of crisis in the times we live far surpasses the conditions that gave rise to these institutional shapes.

Body philosopher Vishnu Vardhani Rajan responds with skin marginalia and from Schizophrenia as Methodology drawing from their work for the book and recent performance Anachronism, Schizophrenia, and the Speed of Light and Sound (MadHouse Helsinki, 2025)

Please join the webinar series via this link. Please be aware that the time of the event is based on Dutch time. This link will be valid throughout the series. If you have any technical issues please contactj.i.metcalfe@uu.nl.