Monday, 7. July 2025 7 p.m.
montagsPRAXIS presents:
Romy Rüegger: Moving Through
Listening session and conversation with Elena Vogman
Romy Rüegger will present her artist’s record Moving Through in form of a performative listening session (German), followed by a conversation with Elena Vogman (English).
Moving Through is based on three extensive artistic research projects and performances related to them.
On the politics of saying and concealing, on the erased, the passed over and violent recordings, on inscribing, performing and recording.
Artistic inquiries that keep coming back, asking their questions. Ongoing conversations with pasts that were not meant to be here. Spaces and feminist housing projects fought for, persisting. Traces of colonial involvements and strikes. The first police photographs and the invention of the nation state and its borders. Traces that change what can be addressed. Poetics and montages that oppose or negotiate the documents.
Departing from archive materials, oral tradition, site visits and experiential knowledge, the works deal with questions of presence and actualisations, with presences and absences and the emergence of social power relations. In their real names and their fake names.
The record is published together with a booklet containing performance scripts, drawings, and visual research materials.
Image: Romy Rüegger, Moving Through, 2024. Graphic: Rosen Eveleigh
Sound recording and editing: Robin Rutenberg, Norbert Lang, Romy Rüegger
Graphic design: Rosen Eveleigh
Mastering: Florian Meyer
Published by Badischer Kunstverein, released on Apparent Extent, 2024
Romy Rüegger is an artist, writer and researcher. Her experimental texts, scores and scripts engage with politics of memory and have been published, translated, staged and performed widely, under shape shifting names. In 2025 she will be an eriac Villa Romana fellow.
Elena Vogman is a scholar of comparative literature and media. She is Principal Investigator of the research project “Madness, Media, Milieus: Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe” at Bauhaus University Weimar and Visiting Fellow at ICI Berlin. Her current work focuses on the media histories of institutional psychotherapy and its intersections with decolonial discourse, psychoanalysis, feminism, and ecological thinking.