On this evening the philosopher and longstanding collaborator of Florian Hecker Robin Mackay will provide insight into Hecker’s extraordinary artistic practice. In his lecture, he will also try to show at what point McCracken’s and Hecker’s artistic positions potentially reinforce each other within the shifting boundaries and intersections of sculpture and sound.

Robin Mackay (Cornwall) is a philosopher and director of Urbanomic, which promotes research activities addressing crucial issues in philosophy and science and their relation to contemporary art practice, and aims to engender interdisciplinary thinking and production. Mackay is also editor of Urbanomic’s publication “Collapse: Journal of Philosophical Research and Development.” He has also translated various works of French philosophy, including Alain Badiou’s “Number and Numbers”, François Laruelle’s “The Concept of Non-Photography” and “Anti-Badiou”, and Quentin Meillassoux’s “The Number and the Siren”.