Collecting | Leuphana Opening Week 2023 | After Movie

www.leuphana.de/openingweek Autographs and weather reports, paintings and sacred bones, memories and even votes or data: what is it that we don't collect? While collecting can be a harmless hobby or a sophisticated cultural technique, it is never a simple or straightforward matter. Every day we are confronted with stories of museums grappling with the colonial legacies of their object collections, Big Tech companies being scrutinized for the personal data they collect, or emerging health and environmental crises that cannot be managed without expansive and real-time data collection. But what are we really collecting when we collect? How do these practices come to shape the world we live in? During Leuphana's OPENING WEEK 2023, students got to the bottom of collecting. The Opening Week 2023 took place from 5 October until 13 October. Under the motto COLLECTING, students were invited to work in projects and to focus on one of the five focal themes: 1. Art & Archives 2. Data & Value(s) 3. Power & Rights 4. Nature & Resources 5. Trust & Recognition. During the Opening Week that marked the very beginning of the semester, their ideas were essential. Musik: Artlist.com Charlie Ryan - Forward Motion Roni Bar Hadas - Higher Than the Rain Roni Bar Hadas - Higher Than the Rain - Instrumental Version Leitung der Opening Week: Sven Prien-Ribcke Weitere Informationen: www.leuphana.de/openingweek Filmproduktion: Emil Lorin