Venue:ICI Berlin
Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8
10119 Berlin
This conference takes an interest in minutiae at the levels of aesthetics, ethics, and politics. It invites smaller-scale perspectives to interrogate the interrelations between form and content, and asks how aesthetics forms theory and how theory performs politics. Gravitating around those details that are often seen as inconsequential and unimportant, this conference gestures towards alternative ways of imagining and enacting form, performance, and the formless. Through the lenses of dust, drops, and gaps, reality looks different—blurred, unclear. Minima Formalia asks what role details play in understanding or altering our worldview, and whether one can make a grammar of small or empty gestures. Is the small, the unknown, the overlooked by definition better or more interesting than the big, the known, the noticed? Or does the devil lie in the details?
In English
With Antonia Baehr, Alvina Chamberland, Rebecca Comay, Nile Davies, Jule Flierl, Julian Isenia, Esther Leslie, Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Organized by Nicolas Helm-Grovas, Jasmine Pisapia, Angelica Stathopoulos, and Verónica Stedile Luna
How to Attend
At the venue (registration required): Registration opens on 5 May 2026. No online attendance / no livestream available
(in-person only). More information & registration...
