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TISCH #40
Angela Harutyunyan and her class (UdK)

Tunnel Systems of Love: Don’t Turn Away from the Surface!
June 25, 2026 12 – 3:30 pm

House of Taswir
Schillerstraße 15
Berlin Charlottenburg

Buchara House of Study

Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1963-1944), color photography, date unknown. With thanks to Jean-Claude Kuner.

FEAST: Semipermeable Membrane

Ana Ratner, 2020, dinner performance with a plant-based menu by Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri. January 7, 2020, at Repair the World Brooklyn. Curated by Aimee Rubensteen. Published in Protocols #7, edited by Ben Ratskoff

TISCH University.
House of Taswir
Schillerstraße 15
Berlin Charlottenburg

TISCH #40: June 25, 2026
Angela Harutyunyan and her class (UdK)
TUNNEL SYSTEMS OF LOVE: DON’T TURN AWAY FROM THE SURFACE

TISCH #39: March 30, 2025
Barbara Beisinghoff
ARACHNE BLUES. HANDCRAFTED ARTIST BOOKS & ZOHARIC MATTERS

TISCH #38: January 7/9, 2025
Angela Harutyunyan and her class (UdK)
ABY WARBURG AND THE MNEMOSYNE OF TASWIR

TISCH #37: December 9, 2024
Haya El Khoury and her class (HRS)
EPISTEMIC ARCHITECTURES.
EXPERIMENTING WITH THE THRESHOLD OF THE PRIVATE

TISCH #36: November 3, 2024 (Tisch in Istanbul)
Khaled Tanji & Gülen Güler
WHO SPEAKS FOR WHOM? ON TRANSLATION, FAITHFULNESS, and LOVE

TISCH #35: November 10, 2024
Nadje Al-Ali
FEMINIST DILEMMAS & PATTERNS OF VIOLENCE in MIDDLE EASTERN REGIONS

TISCH #34: June 16, 2024
Wendy M.K. Shaw
UNDISCIPLINED

TISCH #33: May 26, 2024
Simon Wachsmuth
FROM HEAVEN HIGH. PIG MASKS IN CONTEXT

TISCH #32: May 12, 2024
Heike Behrend
SCHRECKNISSE DES WISSEN-WOLLENS. FRAGEN UND IHRE FRAGLICHKEIT/ ETHNOGRAPHERS’ DISCONTENT

TISCH #31: February 18, 2024
Editorial with Clementine Butler-Gallie
FUTURE TISCHES – WHO ARE THEY

TISCH #30: November 19, 2023
With Avigail Ben Dor Niv
THE FEMALE BODY & THE HOUSE OF STUDY (IV)

TISCH #29: November 5, 2023
With Rachel Pafe (II)
HANNAH ARENDT ON RAHEL VARNHAGEN

TISCH #28: October 15, 2023
With Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman (III)
ARTIST’S NOTES ON LUTHER

TISCH #27: September 10, 2023
With Wolfgang Hegener
CIRCUM-CIS-ION. RABBINIC THINKING & PSYCHOANALYSIS (IV)

TISCH #26: June 25, 2023
With Simon AJ Simon
HILDE LEWINSKY. FEMALE. FORGOTTEN. FREUDIAN (II)

TISCH #25: May 14, 2023
With Alexander H. Schwan
PaRDeS AND CONTEMPORARY DANCE.
BODY LETTERS IN MOVEMENT.

TISCH #24: April 23, 2023
With Frederick AJ Simon
HILDE LEWINSKY. FEMALE. FORGOTTEN. FREUDIAN.

TISCH #23: March 1, 2023
With Joseph Sassoon Semah
ANYTHING THAT MAY COME TO HIS MIND

TISCH #22: December 11, 2022
With Raphaëlle Oskar
HOW TO (NOT) SPEAK IN THE PRESENCE OF THE DEAD (II)

TISCH #21: December 4, 2022
With Clementine Butler-Gallie
THE TISCH – HOW TO TRACE ITS TRACES

TISCH #20: November 13, 2022
With Raphaëlle Oskar
HOW TO (NOT) SPEAK IN THE PRESENCE OF THE DEAD

TISCH #19: October 16, 2022
With Wolfgang Hegener
FREUD’s KATHARINA in CHAVRUTHA

TISCH #18: October 2, 2022
With Avigail Ben Dor Niv
THE FEMALE BODY & THE HOUSE OF STUDY (III)

TISCH #17: July 10, 2022
With Avigail Ben Dor Niv
THE FEMALE BODY & THE HOUSE OF STUDY (II)

TISCH #16: June 19, 2022
With Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman
TOWARDS A PERFORMANCE OF THE UNDEAD AT KARL ABRAHAM’S GRAVE.

TISCH #15: June 10, 2022
With Itamar Ben Ami & Friends
HOW (NOT) TO REMEMBER. MOURNING AND MELANCHOLY.

TISCH #14: May 1, 2022
With Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman & Friends
RUINS, MNEMOSYNE & WITHDRAWAL.

TISCH #13: April 17, 2022
With Avigail Ben Dor Niv
THE FEMALE BODY & THE HOUSE OF STUDY.

TISCH #12: February 20, 2022
With Wolfgang Hegener
FREUD’s TALMUD.

TISCH #11: January 20, 2022
With Cathrine Bublatzky
PITFALLS OF TRANSCULTURALISM AND THE UNIVERSITY.

*TISCH #10: December 5, 2021
With Elliot R. Wolfson
JACQUES LACAN & KABBALISTIC WAYS OF THINKING.

*TISCH #9: November 21, 2021
With Martina Bengert
MAURICE BLANCHOT.

*TISCH #8: November 14, 2021
With Wolfgang Hegener
FREUD’s TALMUD.

TISCH #7: October 24, 2021
With Rachel Pafe
SUSAN TAUBES. SIMONE WEIL.

TISCH #6: October 3, 2021
With Julia Gyemant
TO BE OR NOT TO

TISCH #5: May 30, 2021
With Rebar Salahaddin
JEWISH QUARTER SULAYMANIYA.

TISCH #4: May 16, 2021
With Sandrine Aumercier
PSYCHANALYSIS in TOGO.

TISCH #3: April 11, 2021
With Susanne Hübner
SCHLEIER. BRAUT. LACAN.

TISCH #2: March 14, 2021
With Elad Lapidot
… TALMUDIC THINKING …

TISCH #1: December 6, 2020
With Wendy M.K. Shaw
What is “Islamic Art”

* TISCH cancelled / postponed

TISCH University convenes faculty and students
Nadje Al-Ali, Sandrine Aumercier, Sterre Barentsen, Heike Behrend, Barbara Beisinghoff, Itamar Ben Ami, Hanna Omri Ben Yehuda, Avigail Ben Dor Niv, Martina Bengert, Shulamit Bruckstein, Noga-Sarai Bruckstein, Cathrine Bublatzky, Clementine Butler-Gallie, Deborah Cohen, Haya El Khoury, Lilli Gast, Julia Gyemant, Angela Harutyunyan, Wolfgang Hegener, Susanne Hübner, Adam Klein, Jessica Korp, Elad Lapidot, Adi Liraz, Seda Mimaroğlu, Netanel Olhoeft, Esther von der Osten, Raphaëlle Oskar, Gesine Palmer, Rachel Pafe, Rebar Salahaddin, Joseph Sassoon Semah, Yael Sela Teichler, Wendy Shaw, Frederick Simon, Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, Malwina Tuchendler, Marie von Heyl, Alexander H. Schwan, Simon Wachsmuth

TISCH UNIVERSITY – CALL for STUDENTS.
Founded in Berlin, September 2020

The TISCH University is a collective research experiment, a self-authorized house of learning in the environment of a salon, an analogue, spontaneous, private, continuous place of higher learning, trans-disciplinary to begin with, a crossover of fields, tracing knowledge from outside in, margins to the center, associative, with no beginning nor end, yet producing materials with the precision of an architect: artistic, psychoanalytic, poetic, textual, and more.

The TISCH University is an active response to the eroding eroticism of the university, to the boredom of preconceived curricula. It celebrates its own kind of jouissance, and shares its sense of freedom between scholars, artists, students, guests.

The TISCH University is founded by Shulamit Bruckstein with members of House of Taswir. It gathers a quorum of scholars and students around a private table in Berlin Charlottenburg otherwise used for family affairs and for Shabbat feasts. The TISCH overlaps four “fields of knowledge”: Art Theory, Talmud, Ethnology, Psychoanalysis, fields which are themselves standing up for interrogation, as they might not exist to begin with.

The TISCH University sessions are announced from time to time. They begin during Winter-Semester 2020/21.

Venue: House of Taswir, Schillerstraße 15 in Berlin Charlottenburg.

Faculty and participants:

Nadje Al-Ali
Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies
Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs
Brown University, Providence, US

Angela Harutyunyan
Art historian and researcher (Beirut/ Berlin), professor for modern and contemporary art, UdK Berlin

Rachel Pafe
Writer and researcher, contributing editor of Marginalia, Los Angeles a.o.

Avigail Ben Dor Niv
Talmudic scholar, writer, Rabbi in Basel/Berlin

Julia Gyemant
Independent Artist, writer, curator. Scribe at Wednesday Society, Artam Museum Istanbul, 2019 and co-curator of Wednesday Society, Istanbul

Clementine Butler-Gallie
Writer, curator, researcher. Editorial Board Member of Arts Cabinet.
Studied History of Art at Christie’s Education London

Joseph Sassoon Semah
Internationally exhibited artist
Lives and works in Amsterdam

Haya El Khoury
Experimental Designer and Storyteller, using Design and Art for Art activism
Lives and works in Beirut/Berlin

Barbara Beisinghoff
Artist/ Book Artist
Lives and works in Rhoden/ Germany

Sterre Barentsen
Co-Curator of the Young Moscow Biennial, 2020
Ph.D. candidate in collaborative art practices of the neo-avantgarde in 1970s East Germany, Humboldt University Berlin

Sandrine Aumercier
Psychoanalyst, Writer, Researcher

Raphaelle Oskar
Ph.D. candidate in Rabbinic Literatur at NYU and performance artist

Adi Liraz
Interdisciplinary and Performance Artist
Lives and works in Berlin and Ioannina

Rebar Salahaddin
Architect, Film Producer, Student of Urban Design

Netanel Olhoeft
Rabbinical Scholar, Writer, Rabbi

Deborah Cohen
Anthropologist, writer, scholar

Malwina Tuchendler
Scholar, writer, and performance artist
Wroclaw/Berlin

Seda Mimaroğlu
Translator, poet and writer
Works and lives in Berlin and Istanbul

Adam Klein
Talmudic scholar

Wendy Shaw
Expert in Art History of Islamic Cultures, Writer, Novelist

Elad Lapidot
Professor of Philosophy and Talmud, Lille University
University of Bern and Humboldt University Berlin

Yael Sela Teichler
Scholar of comparative literature.
PhD candidate, University of Potsdam

Gesine Palmer
Writer, editor of “Sonderhefte”, director of “Büro für Besondere Texte”
Lives and works in Berlin

Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman
Performance artist, Theorist, Writer
Professor at Western Washington University

Frederick Simon
Psychiatrist, Researcher

Heike Behrend
Professor Emeritus, Institut for African Studies, University of Cologne

Esther von der Osten
Translator, independent writer

Lilli Gast
Professor for Psychoanalytic Theory and President of the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin

Martina Bengert
Professor of Literature, Religion, and Gender Studies in Romance Cultures, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Wolfgang Hegener
Psychoanalyst, Researcher

Susanne Hübner
Psychoanalyst, Researcher

Marie von Heyl
Artist, Researcher, Theorist

Alexander H. Schwan
Dance Researcher, Theorist

Simon Wachsmuth
Artist, Researcher

Tisch: Shulamit Bruckstein
House of Taswir

A curriculum of the semester is protocolled backwards, as the materials will have evolved by way of free association. Willingness to read and to present material at the table is mandatory.

CALL for STUDENTS: There is an opening for 10 students per semester – from all departments.

Prerequisites: Openness to meander between fields. Tolerance toward free association. Love for concrete texts and artistic materials. Official enrolment in a university (Masters or Ph.D. program). Willingness to commit parts of their master’s or Ph.D. thesis to materials, topics, epistemic architectures shared at the TISCH. Credits can be arranged in agreement with the TISCH professors and their departments. For inquiries please contact [email protected]

Shulamit Bruckstein, June 8, 2021/November 09, 2024/March 13, 2025

Buchara House of Study

Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1963-1944), color photography, date unknown. With thanks to Jean-Claude Kuner.

FEAST: Semipermeable Membrane

TISCH University.
House of Taswir
Schillerstraße 15
Berlin Charlottenburg

TISCH #35: November 10, 2024
Nadje Al-Ali
FEMINIST DILEMMAS & PATTERNS OF VIOLENCE in MIDDLE EASTERN REGIONS

TISCH #36: November 3, 2024
Khaled Tanji & Gülen Güler
WHO SPEAKS FOR WHOM? ON TRANSLATION, FAITHFULNESS, and LOVE