Minima Formalia: Minor Details and Empty Gestures

Wed May 20 2026 at 09:30 am to 08:00 pm UTC+02:00

Christinenstrasse 18-19, Haus 8, 10119 Berlin, Germany | Berlin

ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Publisher/HostICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Minima Formalia: Minor Details and Empty Gestures
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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?
Organized by Nicolas Helm-Grovas, Jasmine Pisapia, Angelica Stathopoulos, and Verónica Stedile Luna
With
Antonia Baehr
Alvina Chamberland
Rebecca Comay
Nile Davies
Jule Flierl
Julian Isenia
Esther Leslie
Natascha Sadr Haghighian
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Christinenstrasse 18-19, Haus 8, 10119 Berlin, Germany, Christinenstraße 18, 10119 Berlin, Deutschland, Berlin, Germany

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