Avery F. Gordon is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Center for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, University of London and Keeper of the Hawthorne Archives. She is the author of Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination and works about captivity, war, and other forms of dispossession and how to eliminate them. She worked with the artist Ines Schaber on the project The Workhouse for Documenta 13.
Avery will show a piece she has done with artist Celine Condorelli, a correspondence araound “Hawthrone Archive”

http://www.averygordon.net/index.php?/projects/the-hawthorne-archives/

 

Prof. Dr. Barbara Kirchner is Chair of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Leipzig. Barbara’s work is diverse, ranging from understanding liquids and solvents, intermolecular forces and processes in the condensed phase, to quantum chemical analysis of interesting molecules, and methodological developments. Barbara is the editor of the volume Ionic Liquids in the series Topics in Current Chemistry and writes for German magazines and newspapers as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, De-bug, Spex and Texte zur Kunst. She is the co-author of the recently published “novel in concepts” Der Implex with Dietmar Dath.

 

Lavinia Wilson is a German-American actress who made her debut in Sherry Hormann’s thriller Leise Schatten. Lavinia caused a stir with her performance in the TV movie Das erste Mal (The First Time) where she played a teenager who desperately wants to have sex for the first time. Lavinia won the actor’s award at the Tbilisi film festival and in San Sebastián for her performance in Dito Tsintsadze’s  Schussangst and the Max Ophuels award as “Best young actress” for her portrayal of a fun-loving young woman in Allein (Alone). Lavinia studies philosophy, history, and sociology in Berlin.