Bild: Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Fotogram / Ulmus glabra, 2014|
Saturday, August 22 2020 - 17:00 (auf Deutsch)
within the exhibition MACHT NATUR at STATE Studio
in collaboration with Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur
This ‘anthropo-’ blocks attention to patchy landscapes, multiple temporalities, and shifting assemblages of humans and nonhumans: the very stuff of collaborative survival.. 1
Inspired by Anna Tsing, this session is looking for 'transformative encounters' with and through landscapes. 2 In ‘Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club’ we read together texts related to natural sciences, art, anthropology, postcolonialism, and (post)anthropocene, chosen from a female perspective looking beyond disciplines. This reading session takes place during the MACHT NATUR exhibition.
‘How can bioeconomy facilitate a sustainable future?’ 3 is asking the MACHT NATUR exhibition, inviting you to experience seemingly everyday aspects of our lives such as insects, plants, soil and air and to question them from a biotechnological perspective.
At this reading group we will read passages together out loud and share our experiences and thoughts about the nature we live in, what it means to us, and will discuss different ways of engaging with the world we inhabit.
Come and join us with an open mind here:
What: The Reading Club is exceptionally held in German language with a limited capacity of 12 participants
Where: STATE studio, Hauptstraße 3, 10827 Berlin
When: Saturday August 22, 2020, 17:00 (sharp!)
Who: small group of lovely, people who would like to meet you (personal rsvp is necessary via eventbrite)
Why: to read together, be inspired and meet people
Note: as there is a limited capacity, if after confirming your attendance you find out that you are not able to join, we ask you to be kind to others and to cancel as soon as possible
Hosts: Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, artist, and Sina Ribak, researcher for ecologies & the arts
In collaboration with Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur
and with STATE Studio, Exhibition Laboratory for Science, Art and Society: MACHT NATUR Exhibition Opening, 13 August, 6:30 pm
References:
1 Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt, The mushroom at the end of the world : on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins, Princeton University Press (2015), p. 20.
2 Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt, The mushroom at the end of the world : on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins, Princeton University Press (2015), p. 46
3 The MACHT NATUR exhibition presents the results of the research project Farming the Uncanny Valley - a project of the University of the Arts Berlin in cooperation with Fraunhofer Umsicht, STATE Studio, YOU.SE, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research and Education. The exhibition welcomes you to collaboratively discuss wishes and to develop your own visions of the future. www.macht-natur.de
Bild: Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Fotogram / Ulmus glabra, 2014|