Pre-phase · starting July.

The work begins online. In video calls per group, participants meet, look at their shared theme, and gather first associations — where measurement data, Sorbian narratives, film, sound, or performance might connect. Groups arrive in Schönbach with a common focus and first hypotheses already in hand.


WEEK 1 FROM 2 – 7 AUGUST.
research, workshops & first production

The first days are for arriving, forming groups, and sharpening questions. Alongside the project work run open sessions with invited guests — 

Monday 3 August.
Image and glitch, with ROSA MENKMAN 
Menkman gave glitch art its vocabulary. Her Glitch Studies Manifesto reads the break in the flow as the moment a technology stops hiding and shows what it actually is. Her later work shifted from glitch to resolution — the more political question: setting a standard promotes order and efficiency and, in the same move, buries the alternatives that were never allowed to exist. She founded the institutions for Resolution Disputes (TRANSFER Gallery, New York), wrote The Glitch Moment(um) and Beyond Resolution, and won CERN's Collide International Barcelona Award, which sent her research toward what makes images im/possible. Since 2023 she runs the Im/Possible Lab at HEAD Genève.
For a residency built on what an eclipse makes visible by hiding it, the sharpest possible opening.
Rosa speaks on visible/invisible, glitch and ghosts — drawing on her own work and her time at CERN. The session then opens into a round of questions and shared thinking. Online, possibly on site.
Find out more: beyondresolution.info

Tuesday 4 August, from 11am.
Jama: přichod [pit: future]
sorbian/wendish realities and visions for futures,
with KAROLINE SCHNEIDER / KRAWC.
An introduction to the Sorbian world, with the focus on mythology, cosmogony, and the sun. Karoline was born in Bautzen, is Sorbian, and lives in Leipzig. Her work develops serbski futurizm — a Sorbian futurism oriented on critical futurisms like Afrofuturism rather than on preservation, asking what a minority looks like in its own future instead of only in its own past. Installation, video, ceramics, augmented reality; her solo show jama: pśichod / Grube: Zukunft ran at the BLMK Cottbus in 2026. Her artistic PhD examines cowrie shells on the harnesses of Sorbian Easter riders — a shell from the Indian Ocean on a horse in Lusatia, and the trade routes that put it there. Find out more: karolineschneider.me

Thursday 6 August.
TouchDesigner, with LYNN MAYYA, in two parts: basics in the morning, an open surgery in the afternoon for those already working in it.
Lynn is a Syrian-born audiovisual artist based in Berlin, working at the NODE Institute — the TouchDesigner and VVVV hub. She studied Time Based and Interactive Media Art in Linz and performs generative real-time work, building environments where image and sound are made in the moment rather than played back. Her day comes in two halves: the basics in the morning, from nothing; an open surgery in the afternoon for those already working in it, who should bring the specific thing that is stuck. With several projects here leaning on real-time image systems, this is the practical spine of the first week. Find out more: lynnmayya.com

Friday 7 August.
On Ancestral Technologies, with TABITA REZAIRE, online from Guyane.
Rezaire lives in Cayenne, French Guiana, and works where technology, spirituality, ancestral knowledge, and cosmology meet — with no hierarchy between them. She tends Amakaba, a sacred forest in the Amazon organised around a garden of medicines, birthwork on the land, and collective starwork: a portable planetarium that remembers an astronomy older than the one we were taught. She is currently in In Minor Keys, the main exhibition of the 61st Venice Biennale. Given that we spend two weeks pointing instruments at a sun about to be covered, a practice that keeps a planetarium for an older astronomy is not decoration on the programme — it is a second way of asking the same question. Online from Guyane, Friday afternoon. Find out more: tabitarezaire.com


OUR SCIENTIFIC GUESTS
FROM DZA, DESY & CASUS

The groups work alongside researchers connected to Lusatia and its emerging research landscape: DR. KONSTANCJA SATALECKA, DZA. Multi-messenger astronomy — MAGIC, IceCube, CTA — and regional science communication. PD DR. TORSTEN ENßLIN, MPA Garching and DZA. Information field theory, artificial and natural intelligence. His simulations of communicating agents, which produce self-deception and machine gossip, generate the text of one of the films made here. DR. MIKE LINDNER, DZA. Geophysics and seismology; the Low Seismic Lab and Lusatia's seismic quiet. DR. EDUARDO H. COLOMBO, CASUS. Complex systems, theoretical ecology, and pattern formation — landscape heterogeneity as a lens that reveals the hidden. DR. RAINER WUNDERLICH, CASUS. Complex systems; macroecology and species-distribution modelling. DR. ISMAIL ISMAIL, CASUS. Theory of complex systems, Görlitz. LAGAN DHANDA, CASUS. Theory of complex systems, Görlitz. DR. SYLVIA J. ZHU, DESY Zeuthen. Gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and gravitational-wave sources; data sonification with artists. DR. JIŘÍ VYSKOČIL, formerly CASUS. Physicist specialising in high-performance computing, simulation, and scientific visualisation — and an artist in his own right, resident for the full two weeks with his own project on cosmic structures.



WEEK 2 FROM 9 – 16 AUGUST.
field works, production, eclipse & premieres

The second week shifts fully into making: filming, recording, building, cutting. The week is paced toward 12 August, when the partial eclipse becomes both a shared event and a source of material. On 15 August the residency closes internally, with the groups showing each other where the work got to. After, autumn and winter 2026 Editing, sound design, and colour are completed; multichannel installations and performative formats are tested. First public presentations follow across Lusatia and beyond — beginning on 23 August at the Fokus Festival in Görlitz, alongside the CASUS Open Door Day, and continuing at Kunsthalle Görlitz in autumn, and other partner venues.


WED 12 AUGUST.
TSHBE! — THE SUN HAS BEEN EATEN!

The public culmination of the residency. On 12 August the moon covers 88 percent of the sun above Upper Lusatia — not night, but that wrong, tilted light where birds go quiet and insects start up as if someone tampered with the clock. We are not making a viewing appointment out of it. We are making a day you walk through: from a flooded granite quarry, up through forest, onto a mountain, into the night. Five stations, one movement, filmed as a single continuous take. Free, public from the eclipse onwards, dress code red. Full programme and line-up → find out more.



After · Autumn & Winter 2026

Once the eclipse phase is over, the focus turns to finishing and putting the work into the world: editing, sound design, and colour are completed, multichannel installations and performative formats are tested, and the groups exchange strategies for presentation and distribution. First public presentations begin on 23 August — at the Fokus Festival in Görlitz, alongside the CASUS Open Door Day, and at the Łužycafilm network meeting at the Weltspiegelkino Finsterwalde. From there the work is carried onward into further festivals, exhibitions at Kunsthalle Görlitz in autumn, and science–art contexts, shown together with the scientists and communities involved.

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