Abstract:
This essay is reflecting on frailty, the university and the city, in relation to each other. It seeks
to transcend the binary concepts of presence and absence, proposing remembrance as the
frail work of making absence present, of reweaving what is dismembered, and of a politics
of hospitality. It considers the task of remembrance in the ‘studio of life’, disrupting or
transcending the confines of laboratory and asylum.
