Workshop: Hvordan kan vi forsat bo på en beskadiget planet?

Kunsthal Aarhus og Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) inviterer til en workshop med kreative praksisser og eksperimentalgenrer om det at leve i besmittede landskaber, lossepladser og kompostbunker i den antropocæne tidsalder.

Åsa Sonjasdotter inviterer til kartoffelhøst på workshop på Kunsthal Aarhus. Foto: Aarhus Kunsthal

Kunsthal Aarhus og Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) inviterer til en workshop med kreative praksisser og eksperimentalgenrer om det at leve i besmittede landskaber, lossepladser og kompostbunker i den antropocæne tidsalder.

Workshoppen er arrangeret i forlængelse af udstillingen DUMP! i Kunsthal Aarhus og organiseret omkring en række indlæg af kunstnere og forskere samt flere kollektive gruppeaktiviteter. Weekenden byder således på performances, smagsevents, præsentationer og rundbordsdiskussioner. 

Undervejs bliver der introduceret til udstillingen, Åsa Sonjasdotter inviterer til kartoffelhøst, Aura præsenterer feltstudier fra Søby Brunkulslejer, Etienne Turpin fortæller om det Antropocæne og meget mere.

Læs Rikke Hansens baggrundsartikel om det Antropocæne i kunsten

Læs Signe Meisners anmeldese af Dump

For at deltage i gruppeaktiviteterne opfordres alle til at indsamle frø og læse Ursula K. Le Guin novelle The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. De indsamlede frø – og historier om dem – vil indgå i Cecilia Semiyas performance lørdag, mens Le Guins historie er afsættet til en samtale søndag. 

Link til introduktion

Tilmelding: participation@kunsthal.dk

Workshoppen foregår på engelsk.
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PROGRAM

Saturday 5 september
10.30-11.05
Welcome and Introduction

11.10-11.45     
AURA: Multispecies Life in Søby Brown Coal Beds
Field researchers bring together art, science, and natural history to track multispecies encounters and landscape change in Søby.

11.50-12.10    
ÅSA SONJASDOTTER: Between Plants & Politics
Harvest of Adretta potatoes that have been growing at Kunsthal Aarhus over the summer

Break for lunch

Invitation to visit “Multispecies Storytelling”, a special book section assembled in cooperation with Antipyrine Books.

14.15-14.25
MATHIAS KOKHOLM: Ting and Polis
Editor-curator presents works on vandalism, collecting, and Asger Jorn’s imaginary institute, S.I.S.V.

14.30-14.55      
CECILIA VICUÑA: Artist Talk
Artist discusses her environmental works with seeds and garbage in Chile since the 1960s.

15.00-17.00     
GROUP ACTIVITY
TOWN HALL: Semiya 2015
A realization of Cecilia Vicuña’s 1971 proposal to Chilean president Salvador Allende: A civic gathering to share stories about collected seeds, culminating in a performance by Vicuña.
NB: Please collect seeds and stories about them to share during the meeting!

17.00-17.30 Break
Invitation to eat harvested potatoes and enjoy Aarhus microbrews by Kunsthal Café

17.40-19.00     
PAWEŁ WOJTASIK: Enduring Captivity: Sea Mammals, Pigs, Water Buffaloes
Filmmaker’s screening and discussion of his multispecies documentaries and new work in India

SUNDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER
13.00-14.30     
ETIENNE TURPIN: Sedimentality – Seven Homolithic Inquiries
An experimental presentation/discussion of seven ways to consider the Anthropocene

15.00-18.00     
GROUP ACTIVITY
ROUNDTABLE: Making and Unmaking the Anthropocene with The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin
A lively and open workshop around an alternate story of humans and collective life on earth
NB: Please read the short story here to participate in the conversation

16.00-16.15      
AMY BALKIN: A Report on “A People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting”
Artist-researcher presents her collaborative recordings of vanishing places.

18.10-20.00     
SPURSE: Towards a Multispecies Commons
A forage, a meal, a conversation

20.00 Champagne Toast
Wrapping up and invitation to watch Dana Sherwood’s racoons in Florida (projection only visible to humans at night)


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Workshop

Dump! Workshop

5 sep 2015 6 sep 2015

Mathias Kokholm., Paweł Wojtasik, SPURSE, Etienne Turpin, Åsa Sonjasdotter, Anna Tsing, Cecilia Vicuña

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ABOUT
Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) is an interdisciplinary research group led by Niels Bohr Professor Anna Tsing and Professor Nils Bubandt of Aarhus University, Department of Culture & Society. AURA research combines the arts, sciences, and humanities to study feral biologies and novel technologies shared by humans and nonhumans inhabiting a damaged planet.

The DUMP! workshop is organized in conjunction with an exhibition currently on view at Kunsthal Aarhus, curated by Elaine Gan (AURA), Steven Lam (Purchase College, NY), and Sarah Lookofsky (Museum of Modern Art, NY).