Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
A bug in the system
About a small bug in my personal life, but a sign of a bug in the larger system called heteronormativity.
Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- Dec 21, 2020
- 1 min
Beuys' response
Mr. Beuys himself returned from the dead to check out my PhD. Here is his response as an encore to this research journey.
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Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- Sep 14, 2020
- 6 min
Finding myself as an artist of society
Much of my self-experiment involved exploring agency by confronting its limits. Summer 2020, however, brought a mood change.
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Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- Jun 1, 2020
- 11 min
Saving the Soul 2.0
I love the notion of soul, but what does it mean and what is its relevance in the world of today?
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Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- May 26, 2020
- 8 min
My favourite mystery
How can you find that which is still unknown to you? On Meno's paradox, the mystery of transformation, and journeying into the unknown.
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Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- Mar 26, 2020
- 10 min
God in Corona World
In this letter I illuminate the role that spirituality plays in my work - against the background of the Corona crisis.
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Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- Feb 6, 2020
- 1 min
Darkifiesto
How to embrace darkness in a world obsessed with the light of reason? An essay film about the struggle for soul in spaces made for the mind.
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Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- Jan 18, 2020
- 2 min
The salty sea
Or, how not to do justice to the data of lived experience. A rant about stifling academic practices.
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Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- Jan 14, 2020
- 13 min
Letter to an Unlikely Lover
This letter is an attempt to trace the story of an encounter. Of little things that happened. And yet, where else does life take place?
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Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- Nov 19, 2019
- 6 min
A Queer Transformative Learning Rollercoaster
The LGBTQIA+ community teaches me how learning about my own otherness can open doors towards learning to deal with other people's otherness.
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Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- Nov 5, 2019
- 2 min
Name change poem
Who are you? // Creature born from darkness // Someone I don’t yet really know // Me but not me
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Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- Nov 3, 2019
- 1 min
Learning to fall
A short film // In the beginning we lived in paradise. One day, a serpent came along. Or maybe it was just our own desire to cross the final
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Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- Oct 21, 2019
- 6 min
Letter to Linden West
On PhD research as emancipatory life praxis
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Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- Oct 16, 2019
- 9 min
Letter to Joseph Beuys
A critical reflection on Beuys' call to "protect the flame", this letter is an appeal to reconsider how we tell our stories of hope.
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Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- Aug 19, 2019
- 5 min
(9) Kaospilot
Kaospilot is a school for social design and business with two curricula: an official one, written in a language acceptable to the state,...
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Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- Aug 6, 2019
- 4 min
(8) Vakarēšana
Breathing new life into an almost forgotten Latvian tradition, Vakarēšana are spaces for learning from each other by engaging in...
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Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- Jul 5, 2019
- 4 min
(7) FarmAbility
Spending time outside and engaging in meaningful activities as part of a community is not a given for everyone. Providing more than a...
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Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- May 29, 2019
- 4 min
(6) ThoughtBox
“Teaching young people how (not what) to think will create a more compassionate world.” This is the philosophy of ThoughtBox Education, a...
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Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- May 28, 2019
- 4 min
(5) Deconstruct Education
What does it mean for children if the only narratives they encounter in school of people from the African continent are about slavery,...
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Ivan A. Kirchgaesser
- Apr 24, 2019
- 6 min
(4) Mycelium
Mycelium is a creative thinking game, designed to foster the skills required for dealing with the wicked questions the world is facing...
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