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Stichword-Archiv: utopian

Artist Talk

Eva Giannakopoulou, "Kin Baby", 2021. Photo by Andreas Simopoulos.

Tuesday, April 20, 2021,
online
17:00 – 18:30 Leipzig
18:00 – 19:30 Athens

Eva Giannakopoulou grew up in Ithaca, Greece, and has lived in Naples, Barcelona, Istanbul, Berlin, among other places. She studied Art History in Italy, Fine Arts in Greece, and completed her MA in “Space Strategies” at the Art Academy Weißensee, Berlin. She lives and works in Athens.

Eva has presented performances at various unconventional sites, including beaches, squares, rivers, parks, and impromptu stages in public spaces. Her work has been exhibited widely, and she has co-curated and co-organized numerous art projects. She is a co-founding member of the artistic and curatorial band “Most Mechanics Are Crooks”, and is currently curating “Kin Baby,” a feminist, post-human happening for the festival “FUTURE N.O.W” of the Onassis – Stegi Foundation.

Art & the global environmental crisis: a discussion

The first stars in the Planetarium. Black Shoals Stock market planetarium by Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway, 2000 (Photo credit:... Artikel ansehen

The urgency of climate change and environmental crisis makes it necessary to ask ourselves what are the effects of our global networked system. Engaging in critical reflection on the implications of our actions as “agents”, as well as the role of state, institutional and financial structures in this process, seems more relevant than ever.

Through a praxis-oriented focus, we have drawn examples from T.J. Demos’ research into creative practices at the intersections of eco-critical thinking and art making, mainly from his books Decolonizing Nature, Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (Sternberg Press, 2016) and Beyond the World’s End: Arts of Living at the Crossing (Duke University Press, 2020). We find these writings very timely, and particularly inspiring the thesis that “art, given its long histories of experimentation, imaginative invention, and radical thinking can play a central transformative role here. In its most ambitious and far-ranging sense, art holds the promise of initiating exactly these kinds of creative perceptional and philosophical shifts, offering new ways of comprehending ourselves and our relation to the world differently than the destructive traditions of colonizing nature”.

During this online discussion with T.J. Demos, we engage with contemporary issues of ecological sustainability and social justice, the fragile balance of politics and aesthetics, and the relevance of artistic practice in the context of global environmental crisis.

Art and the global environmental crisis: a discussion with T.J. Demos

Tuesday, March 2 at 19:15 CET (Leipzig), 20:15 EET (Athens), online

T. J. Demos is Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes widely on the intersection of visual culture, radical politics, and political ecology—particularly where it opposes racial and colonial capitalism—and is the author of several books, including Beyond the World’s End: Arts of Living at the Crossing (Duke University Press, 2020), Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and Political Ecology (Sternberg Press, 2016), and Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today, (Sternberg Press, 2017). Demos curated Rights of Nature: Art and Ecology in the Americas, at Nottingham Contemporary (2015); Specters: A Ciné-Politics of Haunting, at Madrid’s Reina Sofia Museum (2014); and Beyond the World’s End at the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz (2019). In Spring 2020, he was a Getty Research Institute Fellow, and during 2019-21 directed the Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar research project Beyond the End of the World. He is working on a new book on radical futurisms.

Moderated by reading group participants (Joachim Blank, Andrea Garcia Vasquez, Brigita Kasperaite, Eleni Michaelidi, Olga Vostretsova, Maria Zervoudaki and Magdalena Zotou), with the participation of Nikos Arvanitis, Fabian Lehmann and students of the program. A transcript of the discussion will be published later in 2021.

Necessary alliances
(for a collective imagination)

Levasseur presented some of her recent works, addressing Rosi Braidotti’s notion of posthumanism, Donna Haraway’s speculative fabulation, everything combined in... Artikel ansehen

Levasseur presented some of her recent works, addressing Rosi Braidotti’s notion of posthumanism, Donna Haraway’s speculative fabulation, everything combined in a feminist science fiction landscape. These notions will be linked to the works in a novel narrative and poetic format; a fictional dialogue taking place in a utopian future imagined and produced jointly with the french artist Audrey Jimenez.

Marie-Eve Levasseur (*1985, Canada) lives and works in Germany. She studied visual and media art in Montreal as well as in Leipzig. Her works have been shown in many group and solo exhibitions in Montreal, Berlin, London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Zurich. In 2019, she received a grant from the Karin Abt-Straubinger Foundation. In 2020, she received a research and creation grant from the KdFS (cultural Foundation of the Free State Saxony).

Levasseur’s work deals with intimacy, interactions, non-human ecosystems, mediating devices as extensions and perception of language or images through screens. Using diverse forms and techniques like video, installation, sculpture and 3D animation, she questions the proximity of technological and organic surfaces in a posthuman context as well as our perception of device-mediated content. The method she uses feeds from feminist science fiction and its emancipatory potential. Inspired by thinkers such as Donna Haraway, her projects use speculative fabulation; imagined situations with fictive devices, extensions for human and non-human beings that open a cross-species dialogue in order to reflect the system we live in. Her work is multidisciplinary and allows a continuous learning of new techniques, where DIY and open source become part of her artistic posture.

Online screening: Tuesday, 1 December 2020 at 18:00 Leipzig / 19:00 Athens

Necessary alliances (for a collective imagination) was produced in the frame of p o s t documenta: contemporary arts as territorial agencies

Artist Talk

video storyboard 1 video storyboard 2 video storyboard 3 video storyboard 4 Zurück Weiter Jonas Staal is a visual artist... Artikel ansehen

Jonas Staal is a visual artist whose work deals with the relation between art, propaganda, and democracy. He is the founder of the artistic and political organization New World Summit (2012 – ongoing) and the campaign New Unions (2016 – ongoing). He co-founded the New World Academy with BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (2013 – 16), he is currently directing the utopian training camp Training for the Future with Florian Malzacher (2018 – ongoing), and he is co-administrator of the Obscure Union with Laure Prouvost.

This artist talk was organized in conjunction with the first video screening of Climate Propagandas, Video Study, 2020 (HD color, sound, 16′), which was produced in the frame of the program post documenta: contemporary arts as territorial agencies.

Tuesday, 24 November 2020 at 18:00 Leipzig / 19:00 Athens, online

Climate Propagandas,
Video Study (2020)

The work Climate Propagandas, Video Study (2020, HD video, color, sound, 16′), explores how the climate crisis is interpreted and... Artikel ansehen

The work Climate Propagandas, Video Study (2020, HD video, color, sound, 16′), explores how the climate crisis is interpreted and weaponized within various ideological discourses.

While liberal climate propaganda argues that ecological collapse is the responsibility of human individuals, rather than extractivist corporations, libertarian climate propaganda considers the climate breakdown as a new resource for geomarkets and interplanetary colonization. And while conspiracist climate propaganda claims climate change is nothing but a hoax to enforce population control, eco-fascist climate propaganda takes it as an opportunity to double down on the question who, in ecosystem collapse, has the racial right to survive and who does not.

Through examples of popular and political culture, from the nature documentaries of David Attenborough to the Marvel superhero franchise, Staal attempts to dissect the conflicting realities each of these climate propagandas brings about.

Online Screening: Tuesday, 24 November 2020 at 18:00 Leipzig / 19:00 Athens, as part of the Artist Talk with Jonas Staal

Climate Propagandas, Video Study (2020) was produced in the frame of p o s t documenta: contemporary arts as territorial agencies

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Stichword-Archiv: utopian

Artist Talk

Art & the global environmental crisis: a discussion

Necessary alliances (for a collective imagination)

Artist Talk

Climate Propagandas, Video Study (2020)

Necessary alliances
(for a collective imagination)

Climate Propagandas,
Video Study (2020)