NATURE, CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE ›ANTHROPOCENE‹

A cooperation between the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung and the Facoltà de Artes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, represented by Edith Gonzalez Afanador, Nelson Vergara and Mercedes Castillo, organized by Rebekka Ladewig and Angelika Seppi.

Taking up the debates on the problems of water, water use and water resources in Colombia and beyond, the workshop focuses on the broader topic of techno-capitalist milieus against the background of the ›Anthropocene‹, with the quotation marks pointing to a distance that critically questions the narrative of the ›era of the man‹.  On the basis of selected readings from the fields of philosophy, science and technology studies as well as sociology and environmental studies we want to scrutinize both the process of the on-going dissolution of the dichotomy between nature and culture/technology and its consequences with regard to our life forms and modes of knowledge and, on this basis, develop new theories, models and approaches that effectively tackle the current problems inhering in the techno-capitalist formation of the nature-culture/technology-complex. In addition to joint discussions and practical exercises the schedule includes field trips in and outside of Berlin, film screenings, papers and presentations from artist, curators and experts from the field of environmental studies. You are very welcome to join the afternoon sessions on July 20, 21, 22, and 28! We are also happy to receive your registration for the text-based sessions until July 13! The text will be provided.

MON, JULY 20

9.30 Plenum: Welcome and Introduction to Program; text-based work on Gilbert Simondon: On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects

12.30 Lunch break

13.30 Group work

15.00 Presentation Maestria HABITAT UNAL Bogota

Prof. Dr. Tobias Krüger, Professor for Global Environmental Change, Department of Geography, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Current Progress in Transdisciplinary Water Research (presentation, open end)

TUE, JULY 21

9.30 Plenum: Text-based work on Michel Serres: Natural Contract

12.30 Lunch break

13.30 Group work

15.00 Anselm Franke, Curator and Critic, Head of Visual Arts and Film, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Medium Earth (presentation, open end)

WED, JULY 22

9.30 Plenum: Text-based work on Felix Guattari: Three Ecologies and Boaventura de Sousa Santos: Beyond Abyssal Thinking

12.30 Lunch break

13.30 Group work

15.00 Bettina Klein, Curator and Co-director of the daad artist-program, Berlin, Environment in the works of Carolina Caycedo and Dan Peterman (presentation)

Presentation Maestria en Artes UNAL Bogota

Video-screening: THE SPELL FROM SONORA by Francisco Montoya Cázarez (the artist is present, open end)

Workshop of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Humboldt-University BerlinZentrales Labor, Sophienstr. 22a, Berlin-Mitte20.– 28. July 2015

THU, JULY 23

9.00 Field trip to IBA, Großräschen (open end)

FRI, JULY 24

9.30 Plenum

12.30 Lunch break

13.30 Text-based work on Bomfim, Z. A. C. and Urrutia, E. P.: Affective Dimension in Cognitive Maps of Barcelona and Sao Paolo

15.00 Group work (until 18.00)

SAT, JULY 25

10.00 Excursion/field trip: Berliner Unterwelten/Museum im Alten Wasserwerk (open end)

MON, JULY 27

9.30 Plenum: Text-based work on Erich Hörl: A Thousand Ecologies

12.30 Lunch break

13.30 Group work (until 18.00)

TUE, JULY 28

9.30 Plenum: Text-based work on Lucas Melgaço: Security and Surveillance in times of Globalization. An Appraisal of Milton Santos’ Theory

Group work

15.00 Final presentation (open end)