On Sunday afternoon, we will join in a conversation with Nöle Giulini, focused on her artistic practice, approach to materiality, and the spiritual ethos of her work. Since the late 1980s, Giulini’s intensely material practice has focused on the discarded. Felt and lint, kombucha, cotton, trash, the minutiae and insouciance of existence. She turns these materials, growing or collecting them in self-made facilities around her home, into new fantasies of bodily recreation. Attending to materials that have been discarded, at times organic, changing and embodied materialities, her sculptures are operations to recover the body and mind. Her practice will also be considered within the context of In the Shadows of Tall Necessities, a show which explores systems of co-habitation and interspecies dependency beyond a binary notion. This is a way of seeing practiced in Giulini's work – an enduring attention to moving beyond the "either/or consciousness of separation" and opening up to another set of possibilities: "we have to move sideways, out of the familiar loops that promise safety and yet confine us to a limiting repertoire of being." Following the artist talk by Giulini, we will shift to a reading by Ellen Yeon Kim, marking the closing of her Peter Mertes Stipend exhibition Primordial Soup, with music by artist Bradley Davis. Nöle Giulini’s (b. 1958, Heidelberg) work has been shown at Paula Anglim Gallery, San Francisco (1992); New Museum, New York (1996); Tacoma Art Museum (2008); Heiliggeistkirche, Heidelberg (2012). She lives and works in Port Townsend, US. Her work is currently shown as part of In the Shadows of Tall Necessities at Bonner Kunstverein and she is currently in preparation for a forthcoming solo exhibition at 15 Orient, New York curated by Alan Longino. Ellen Yeon Kim's (b. 1985, Daegu, South Korea) work has been shown at Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2015); Portikus, Frankfurt (2017); Ashley, Berlin (2018) as well as Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln (2022). She is currently the recipient of the Peter Mertes Stipend, with the associated exhibition and publication, Primordial Soup.