The interdisciplinary study group on textures and experiences of trans-industriality explores the changing imaginaries of our global/glocal societies at the turn of the 20th-21st centuries. The group favours enquiries into trans-disciplinary commonalities, and investigates the potency of ideas as they migrate from one body of practice into another. Finding such common grounds is not meant to lead towards more homogenized landscapes, but on the contrary as a springboard through which to re-invest in differentiation. Circulation can be understood, diversification must be the object of pro-active creativity.
CURRENT ACTIVITIES:
Exhibition: May 10 – June 21, 2026
PORTHEADS AND RIVERBEDS opens Saturday 09.05.2026 at Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel.
With Pavel Aguilar, Jan Engels, Sibylle Hauert, Dunja Herzog, David Jacques,
Dorota Lukianska, Cora Piantoni, Jan Van Oordt, The New Liquidity
Curated by: Giulia Busetti, Gabriel N. Gee, Cora Piantoni, from TETI Group
Wed – Fri: 15 – 18 Uhr
Sat – Sun: 13 – 18 Uhr
During Art Basel (June 15 – 21, 2026)
daily 13 – 18 Uhr
Portheads and Riverbeds brings together artists from Switzerland, Germany, England and Sweden, to explore Basel’s maritime history and its present-day port activities. In dialogue with dock workers, activists and artists, the social and economic reuse of the port areas were examined and discussed. After a workshop in May 2025 which included city walks and artist talks, the artistic projects are now being shown. Visitors are invited to reflect on their relationship to land and water, local identities and global currents.
Das Projekt bringt Künstler*innen aus der Schweiz, Deutschland, England und Schweden zusammen, um Geschichte und Gegenwart des Basler Hafens zu untersuchen. Im Dialog mit Hafenarbeiter*innen, Aktivist*innen und Künstler*innen entstand ein Austausch über die soziale und wirtschaftliche Umnutzung der Hafenareale. Nach einem Workshop im Mai 2025 mit Stadtspaziergängen und Artist Talks werden nun die künstlerischen Projekte gezeigt. Die Besucher*innen sind eingeladen, über ihr Verhältnis zu Land und Wasser, lokale Identitäten und weltweite Bewegungen nachzudenken.
PROGRAM
May 9 / 6pm Opening and performance by The New Liquidity
May 10 / 11am Artist talk
June 6 / 11am Walk to the Klybeck area with Sibylle Hauert and Claudia Studer
Meeting point: Gelpke fountain, Westquaistr. 4, Kleinhüningen
2 – 5 pm Mobile Chemistry Museum on Kasernenhofplatz
June 17 / 4 pm Presentation and discussion TETI Journal: Hybrid Marines
6pm Dunja Herzog: UTC & the Maritime
7pm Café de la marine
June 21 / 4pm Finissage and Lekgodilo flute performance by Fernando Brox and Dunja Herzog
Hybrid Marines - TETI Journal n.2
November, 2025
21x27cm
130 pages
Artists have long been drawn to the sea and ports as sites for inspiration and creative interrogation. The present volume of essays and artworks is concerned with the maritime world, from the coast and the harbour to the open sea, and its rich history of transformation, encounters, and navigations, as well as transnational and transcultural formations.
Contents:
Bryan Biggs & Gabriel N.Gee, eds. "Introduction"
PART 1 Interconnected Windows
- Charlotte Gould, "Glasgow's Waterfront. Marines without Ships, Shipyards, or even the Sea"
- Bryan Biggs, "Liverpool's Global Maritime Soundings"
- Francesca Santamaria, Sarah K. Kozlowski, "Reimagining the Neapolitan Veduta in the 20th- and 21st-Century City"
- Lori Gibbs, "Envisaging Maritime Macau. Built Heritage and the Ideation of History"
- Thierry Dufrêne, "Orhan Pamuk. A Balcony on the Bosporus"
PART 2 Uncharted Waters
- Eva-Maria Troelenberg, "Ernst Haeckel's Arabische Korallen. Visual Taxonomies, Art History and the Suez Canal as a Hybrid Geographical Constellation of Modernity"
- Antje Kempe, "Hybrid Greens in Port Cities. On traveling Flora and Urban Assemblage"
- Gabriel N.Gee, "Inversions Expansions. Hybrid Marines in the South China Sea"
PART 3 Maritime Resonances
- Sibylle Hauert, "H.E.I Guide 3D Soundwalk"
- Cora Piantoni, "PORT! WORK! MOVEMENT!"
- Dunja Herzog, "A Personal Affair. Digging to Remember Forward"
- Jan van Oordt, "Playa Blanca"
- David Jacques, "The Cyborg insects and the Sargasso. The Sargassum and the Entrepreneur"
- The New Liquidity, "Ancestors of the Future. People of Eels"
- Jose Caceres Mardones & Jeannette Munoz, "Puchuncavi. Maritime Matter"
- Jan Engels, "Oceanslabs. Neoprene as Material Memory"
- Dorota Lukianska, "Mathematical Drawings"
- Pavel Aguilar, "Landlock Sounds"
Editors: Bryan Biggs & Gabriel N.Gee - Graphic Design: Philippe Desarzens - Web Platform: Berenice Serra - Printing: Druckerei Odermatt AG - Cover: Cora Piantoni
a limited number of prints are available
orders can be placed by PAYPAL or bank transfer (see below).
30FCH
with post: Switzerland: +2 swiss francs / Europe: +15 swiss francs / World +20 swiss francs
TETI Journal 1 + 2 = 50FCH + post (contact below)
About transindustriality:
In transindustriality, the prefix ‘trans’ denotes that which crosses through space or time, that goes beyond the limit contained in the name to which it applies.
In this case, the trans-industrial aims to supersede – or connect –different historical forms of industriality.
The rapid transformations in economic and social fabric that have taken place since the advent of the Industrial Revolution has led observers to identify different sequences unfolding towards the present global and planetary, yet increasingly fragmented age.
A focus on trans-industrial patterns places the emphasis on the ongoing circulations between different industrial and technological activities, across interconnected historical periods. A such, it can reflect nowadays on the ongoing role played by material infrastructure in the age of new media and climate change, on the physical roots that still inform digital expansions and virtual networks, on the survivals and revivals of past industriousness in the present, and future.
The first issue of TETI Journal which is to be published in Spring 2024 will bring a number of interdisciplinary perspectives by a range of authors and artists to unpack its realms of application.
TETI Group was founded in 2011 by Gabriel N.Gee, Maria-Joao Matos, and Michelle Stefano.
The group is registered as an association in Switzerland. TETI association promotes the group's activities through the organisation of exhibitions and artistic interventions, talks and workshops, as well as publications and digital communication interfaces. TETI Group and Press are supported by Pro Helvetia.