Learning from M is the first episode of the new series Going to the Limits of Your Longing, Research as Another Name for Care. It features Yvonne Volkart, author, curator and head of research at the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK FHNW, and artist and cultural producer Peter Spillmann in memory of the artist, curator, researcher, writer, and teacher Marion von Osten. Von Osten’s curatorial, theoretical, and altogether empathic approaches to the medium of exhibition-making revolved around artistic research devoted to the collective.

The series Going to the Limits of Your Longing, Research as Another Name for Care is a collection of podcast episodes emerged from the Master Symposium held in spring 2021 at the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK FHNW in Basel. The contributions to the symposium were devoted to ideas and forms of artistic research that center art as a practice in service of the social. They revisit certain moments in our recent history and present of researching, producing, and exhibiting art in the name of such beliefs, namely social justice.

In Learing from M Yvonne Volkart and Peter Spillmann take the opportunity to remember Marion von Osten and talk about her work and through it refer to the idea of learning as our directive in the Neoliberalism, that we constantly have to learn, never stop doing something. On the other hand, learning also means knowledge transfer and other ways of participating and engaging for which Marion von Osten stands as a person as well as with her body of work.