Michaela Büsse, Susanne M. Winterling: Architectures of Natures
Nature's Architecture
With the persistent questions surrounding climate change and human impact on nature, we decided to focus the lecture series in 2020 on related topics. The concept and selection of speakers was prepared for the VI PER gallery by the philosopher Lukáš Likavčan. Within the cycle titled Architectures of Nature, three evenings will feature contributions from contemporary architectural theorists, for whom Likavčan has chosen a unified theme: How architecture speaks in the construction of nature. Soil. Water. Forest.
The first evening has a common theme: Soil.
Contributions from Michaela Büsse and Susanne M. Winterling will take place online on Tuesday, June 23, 2020, starting at 7:00 PM.
Michaela Büsse: Granular Grounds
While the transformation of sand is a geological process tied to a specific location, the technological machinery of extraction, transportation, and deformation commodifies sand as a resource driving global urbanization processes. Its denaturalization often relates to displacement; sand extracted from a riverbed or coast in one country can end up on a beach or as "new" land in another country. This geological contradiction is accompanied by territorial conflicts, environmental disruption, and the loss of livelihoods and identities tied to coastal areas. The decontextualization and dehistorization of sand violently rearranges both organic and inorganic life to fit into generic forms of global logistics or panoramas shaped by concrete – artificial land is, from Rotterdam to Singapore, a strategic territory hosting container terminals, petrochemical factories, and fragmented business units. An interactive author reading will connect with field notes and film excerpts made during my research journeys and provide a fleeting glimpse into what I call the global aggregate of sand.
Michaela Büsse is a research scholar in design. Her working methods are interdisciplinary: she writes, makes films, and also curates. She is currently a doctoral student at the Critical Media Label lab in Basel, where she explores how design enters into the management of social, material, political, and economic relationships, focusing on tracing the processes through which sand becomes solid ground. Michaela was also an editor of Migrant Journal, which examined the movement of people, goods, information, and even fauna and flora around the world.
Susanne M. Winterling: Planetary Sensing – In Desert Times
The lecture will focus on the interconnectedness of desertification and coastal erosion that threaten many communities, based on two exemplary transdisciplinary projects. The indivisibility of interspecies and non-human materials can be a source of ecological solidarity; "being in trouble" can help facilitate transformation at both planetary and molecular levels. Recognizing differences amid technological connectivity and in terms of the tragedy of the commons acts as a trigger. In artistic research, history and decolonial strategies can be utilized, directing imagination towards the technologies of turtles and epiphytes, marking the misery of this planet. Empowering people for science as a justice technology from below: algae and sand formations come together to interpret various cartographies and infrastructures shaped by footprints in the sand and driven by water currents. Endangered ecosystems show how the boundaries of aridity are instrumentalized by repressive systems.
Susanne M. Winterling is a professor of fine arts at NTNU in Trondheim. In her work, she crosses the boundaries of various media to explore the sensing economy, digital cultures, and the social life of different materials in the environment. Forms and materials narrate stories of species and elements in today's challenging geopolitical context. Her work examines the interconnections between politics and aesthetics, or power structures existing between humans, animals, and matter. Since 2018, she has been working on the research art project Planetary sensing: navigations below the surface, which engages with bioluminescence and addresses topics such as environmental protection, social sculpture, environmental violence, balancing, biosensors, and amateur science. With an emphasis on enhancing our receptive and critical awareness, Winterling conducts research based on feelings and materials, highlighting our subjective interaction between producers, viewers, materials, and species in our environment. As a member of The Kalpana, she injects her own imagination into new speculations about deserts resulting from climate migration. She engages in the conversation art ball on the online platform Pandora's Box. Her recent exhibitions include: In Desert Times, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany; and The Sea Around Us, The Model, Sligo, Ireland. http://www.susannewinterling.com
Lukáš Likavčan focuses on the philosophy of technology, political ecology, and media theory. He is a doctoral student at the Department of Environmental Studies at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno. He has completed several foreign scholarships, including at the Strelka Institute in Moscow and at Polytechnic University in Hong Kong. He regularly publishes in the Czech Republic and abroad and contributed as an editor to the preparation of the book Mind in the Field: Philosophical Realism in the 21st Century (AVU, Prague 2018). As a curator, he has prepared several exhibitions, most recently Civilization at the Crossroads: The Architects of the Scientific and Technological Revolution (Display and Futura, 2018–2019, co-curated with Pavel Sterec).
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The first evening has a common theme: Soil.
Contributions from Michaela Büsse and Susanne M. Winterling will take place online on Tuesday, June 23, 2020, starting at 7:00 PM.
Michaela Büsse: Granular Grounds
While the transformation of sand is a geological process tied to a specific location, the technological machinery of extraction, transportation, and deformation commodifies sand as a resource driving global urbanization processes. Its denaturalization often relates to displacement; sand extracted from a riverbed or coast in one country can end up on a beach or as "new" land in another country. This geological contradiction is accompanied by territorial conflicts, environmental disruption, and the loss of livelihoods and identities tied to coastal areas. The decontextualization and dehistorization of sand violently rearranges both organic and inorganic life to fit into generic forms of global logistics or panoramas shaped by concrete – artificial land is, from Rotterdam to Singapore, a strategic territory hosting container terminals, petrochemical factories, and fragmented business units. An interactive author reading will connect with field notes and film excerpts made during my research journeys and provide a fleeting glimpse into what I call the global aggregate of sand.
Michaela Büsse is a research scholar in design. Her working methods are interdisciplinary: she writes, makes films, and also curates. She is currently a doctoral student at the Critical Media Label lab in Basel, where she explores how design enters into the management of social, material, political, and economic relationships, focusing on tracing the processes through which sand becomes solid ground. Michaela was also an editor of Migrant Journal, which examined the movement of people, goods, information, and even fauna and flora around the world.
Susanne M. Winterling: Planetary Sensing – In Desert Times
The lecture will focus on the interconnectedness of desertification and coastal erosion that threaten many communities, based on two exemplary transdisciplinary projects. The indivisibility of interspecies and non-human materials can be a source of ecological solidarity; "being in trouble" can help facilitate transformation at both planetary and molecular levels. Recognizing differences amid technological connectivity and in terms of the tragedy of the commons acts as a trigger. In artistic research, history and decolonial strategies can be utilized, directing imagination towards the technologies of turtles and epiphytes, marking the misery of this planet. Empowering people for science as a justice technology from below: algae and sand formations come together to interpret various cartographies and infrastructures shaped by footprints in the sand and driven by water currents. Endangered ecosystems show how the boundaries of aridity are instrumentalized by repressive systems.
Susanne M. Winterling is a professor of fine arts at NTNU in Trondheim. In her work, she crosses the boundaries of various media to explore the sensing economy, digital cultures, and the social life of different materials in the environment. Forms and materials narrate stories of species and elements in today's challenging geopolitical context. Her work examines the interconnections between politics and aesthetics, or power structures existing between humans, animals, and matter. Since 2018, she has been working on the research art project Planetary sensing: navigations below the surface, which engages with bioluminescence and addresses topics such as environmental protection, social sculpture, environmental violence, balancing, biosensors, and amateur science. With an emphasis on enhancing our receptive and critical awareness, Winterling conducts research based on feelings and materials, highlighting our subjective interaction between producers, viewers, materials, and species in our environment. As a member of The Kalpana, she injects her own imagination into new speculations about deserts resulting from climate migration. She engages in the conversation art ball on the online platform Pandora's Box. Her recent exhibitions include: In Desert Times, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany; and The Sea Around Us, The Model, Sligo, Ireland. http://www.susannewinterling.com
Lukáš Likavčan focuses on the philosophy of technology, political ecology, and media theory. He is a doctoral student at the Department of Environmental Studies at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno. He has completed several foreign scholarships, including at the Strelka Institute in Moscow and at Polytechnic University in Hong Kong. He regularly publishes in the Czech Republic and abroad and contributed as an editor to the preparation of the book Mind in the Field: Philosophical Realism in the 21st Century (AVU, Prague 2018). As a curator, he has prepared several exhibitions, most recently Civilization at the Crossroads: The Architects of the Scientific and Technological Revolution (Display and Futura, 2018–2019, co-curated with Pavel Sterec).
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