Situations Post

Situations Post (2014–) is a unit for artistic and theoretical research led by Katrin Ströbel and Sophie Orlando. It takes as its starting point the ways in which the geopolitical, economic, and social changes of 2007 prompted a renewal and realignment of artistic strategies. It is grounded in the intersection of race, social class, gender, and sexuality, approached as formal materials embedded within a critical, political, and social present.

The collective focuses on context-based thinking (regarding labor economies, networks, audiences, modes of production, strategies, tools, and resources), along with feminist, queer, and postcolonial thought, not as a history of representation, illustration, or documentation of historical moments, but as a history of forms tied to specific artistic and intellectual affiliations.

The workshop combines research, analysis, and practice, particularly involving process-based artistic production and collaborative practices. It aims to develop a reflection on the relationships between situated knowledge and space—whether that be the space of the text and its notation, the space of production as exhibition space, or the space of archives and documents.

Key references include Donna Haraway’s situated knowledges, Stuart Hall’s “new ethnicities,” Patricia Hill Collins’s intersectionality and Black feminist epistemology, Sam Bourcier’s queer sex-politics, and Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenology.