Thursday, 3 April 2025, 06.30 pm

Public book launch, in conversation with Kabelo Malatsie and Rohit Jain. (language: English)

Science is often seen as a way to measure and define the world—through observation, calculation, and verification. But what happens when these tools reveal more than they can contain? Matter Mattering Matters explores this tension, bringing together artists, philosophers, and theorists who challenge the ways we think about knowledge, truth, and the material world.
Moving across disciplines and registers, the contributions contend with the poetics of quantum mechanics, the politics of planetary observation, and the speculative possibilities of human and more than human cognition. How do we make sense of the universe? How do scientific and creative practices shape the way we see, measure, and interact with the world?

Edited by Kabelo Malatsie & Lantian Xie.

With contributions by Karen Barad, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Rohini Devasher & Sabih Ahmed, Merve Ertufan, Ivana Franke, Jackie Karuti, George Mahashe, sidony o’neal, Raqs Media Collective, Oscar Santillan, Bogosi Sekhukhuni, & Aarti Sunder.

Further Dates:

29 March, 3 p.m.
Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam

1 April
Studio, Berlin
A studio gathering to share processes and reflections on the book with Merve Ertufan, Ivana Franke, Kabelo Malatsie & Lantian Xie. Space is limited please rsvp at medupipub_at_gmail.com

1 May, 6.30 p.m.
Molalatladi, Johannesburg
A gathering and conversation with Nolan Oswald Dennis and Kabelo Malatsie.