
Rhiza – Interspecies Connector
A project by Studio Stenfert Kroese within the Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, 07–14/09/2021

Mouldelling Design: Sensing and Sense-Making
Exhibition project by Samire Gurgurovci, Theresa Hajek, Salma Shaka
29/06–02/07/2021, Angewandte Festival, Vienna

Mediators of Trance: María Sabina – Gordon Wasson – Bruce Conner
Essay by Ilka Becker
In: Ehler Voss (ed.): Mediality on Trial: Testing and Contesting Trance and other Media Techniques, Berlin: De Gruyter 2020, pp. 339-369

Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future of Fungi
Exhibition at Somerset House London
16/07–13/09/2020

Filmriss – Experimentalfilm als neuroaktives Trancemedium
Lecture by Ilka Becker
Media Materialities, annual conference of the Society of Media Studies (GfM), University of Cologne

»Where I forget myself, consent will do.« Dizziness as metaphysical challenge and creative resource
Lecture by Sarah Kolb
Within the symposium As Much About Forgetting, Viborg Kunsthal, DK

Altered States. Substances in Contemporary Art / Substanzen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst
The international group show presents artists who address the topic of altered states of consciousness through photography, video, objects, installation art and performances.
Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany, until 21/05/2018

The Mushroom Hunters: Neil Gaiman’s Feminist Poem About Science
An ode to humanity’s unheralded originators of the scientific method, read by Amanda Palmer

The Mycological Twist
Artist talk by Ilka Becker with The Mycological Twist (Eloïse Bonneviot, Anne de Boer)
Temporary Gallery, Cologne
In the context of the exhibition Respawn, curated by Regina Barunke

Magic Mushrooms
Filmscreening and lecture by Ilka Becker
On the occasion of the exhibition I See, So I See So. Messages From Harry Smith, curated by Anja Dreschke and Regina Barunke
Temporary Gallery, Cologne

Magic Mushrooms – Bruce Conner und die Konstruktion des mexikanischen Schamanismus in der US-amerikanischen Gegenkultur
Lecture by Ilka Becker
Braunschweig University of Art

Mushroom people – Körperhorror, Science Fiction und Ökologie bei Ishiro Honda und Hayao Miyazaki
Lecture by Ilka Becker
Schmela Haus, Düsseldorf

Toxische Medien – Pilze, Gifte und gestörte Ordnungen
Interdisciplinary conference
Braunschweig University of Art
Conception: Ilka Becker, Heike Klippel, Karin Leonhard, Bettina Wahrig
Guests: Clemens Krümmel, Susanne Lettow