[resource-net] ecologies excursion

[Kristoffer Gansing]

Dear re-sourcers,

This Friday, you are all very welcome to our third and final excursion
before we return to HKW and our closing weekend.
The Workshop is already booked out but you can enjoy the free public
program starting at 15.00 in Silent Green. Hope to see many of you there.

best,
Kristoffer


24.02.2017, 11:00 – 22:00
excursion: ecologies silent green Kulturquartier
Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin

All program details here:
https://2017.transmediale.de/festival/2017/program/excursion-3

The Ecologies excursion features new artistic research into messy
disperse ecologies, which characterize planetary life as it is
re-constructed in flows of data, capital, and natural resources.
Understanding how planetary systems work requires multidimensional
thinking, and so, collaborative and interdisciplinary frameworks will
emerge throughout the excursion. By embracing the topic from a
geopolitical perspective, the problematics of scale are brought into the
foreground, and ways for connecting the micro- and macro-political in
DIY artistic practices as well as interdisciplinary research projects
will be proposed. The program also deals with the resource heavy
realities of technology and its impact on the earth from a geological
“deep time” perspective, and looks at new approaches to the earth's own
media such as mushrooms and rocks.

The excursion takes place at silent green Kulturquartier, a former
crematorium in Wedding that was converted into a cultural venue. Among
other cultural initiatives and artist studios, silent green houses the
Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art archive, the Harun Farocki
Institut, and the research and exhibition space SAVVY Contemporary.
silent green’s mission is to transcend boundaries between different
disciplines and promote new hybrid art forms between practice, theory,
research, and application. The Ecologies excursion takes place in the
impressive cupola, which was a former mourning hall—a site of changing
material and immaterial ecologies representing cycles of life, death,
and rejuvenation.

Participants
Shift Register (with Jamie Allen, Martin Howse), Mycelium Network
Society (with Art bureau OPEN & Katrīna Neiburga, Shu Lea Cheang, Anil
Podgornik & Saša Spačal & Mirjan Švagelj, Simon Gmajner, Franz Xaver &
Taro), Art Laboratory Berlin (Christian de Lutz & Regine Rapp), Elvia
Wilk, Joanna Zylinska.