Imminent and Eminent Ecologies

A group exhibition opening on Thursday, 19 September at 18:30

FADA Gallery, Bunting Road Campus, University of Johannesburg

The Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD) at the University of Johannesburg are delighted to announce their forthcoming exhibition of leading African and international bio- and eco-artists. The exhibition, titled ‘Imminent and Eminent Ecologies’, is co-curated by Leora Farber and Brenton Maart, and falls under VIAD’s newly established Bioart + Design Africa (BA+DA) research stream. The artworks on show foreground the entanglement between living and non/living forms, humans and the more-than-human, and the effect culture has on climate change. The exhibition advocates that holistic decolonial practice can only be manifest through breaking down the artificial boundaries between species, and between the organic and elemental.

The exhibition showcases the work of the following BA+DA team members, artists-in-residence, and research associates, together with invited artists: Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez; Janneke de Lange; Leora Farber; Stacy Hardy; Russell Hlongwane, Francois Knoetze and Amy Louise Wilson; Dean Hutton; Bronwyn Katz; Nandipha Mntambo; Miliswa Ndziba; Uriel Orlow; Theresa Schubert; and Louise Westerhout.

https://www.viad.co.za/imminent-and-eminent-ecologies-bda

WED 11 SEP, 4—5.30pm
Digital and environmentally conscious: sustainability and preservation issues in digital art
in cooperation with Gallery Climate Coalition

Today, every single search query, every streamed video and every type of cloud computing, executed billions of times, is responsible for ever-increasing global demand for energy and thus also for increasing CO₂ emissions. How is digital art and all parties involved dealing with this challenge? How can artists, collections, museums, and galleries find a sustainable approach in the production, display, and preservation of digital artworks? The GCC Berlin/Germany hosted panel at Berlin Art Week 2024 will delve into dialog surrounding digital art, weighing the potential benefits of the digital presentation of artworks against their hidden complications and impacts. Andreas Greiner, artist and professor of media art at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel, pulls from his own experience traversing the often surprising impacts and considerations when creating and presenting digital art to elucidate and open up points of discussion for the panelists.

A conversation with Diane Drubay (Founder We Are Museums and Blueshift), Dr. Anna Schäffler (Art historian and preservation specialist), Clara Runge (Curator ZKM Karlsruhe), Dr. Theresa Schubert (Independent artist and researcher), Andreas Greiner (Artist and professor of media art at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel)

Moderation: Kim Krazcon (Conservator of modern materials and contemporary art, sustainability specialist (independent / Ki Culture / GCC Berlin))

More: https://berlinartweek.de/en/baw-garten/

Biologische Prozesse als künstlerisches Material und Medium 

Bei gewerk in the garden #5: Natur als Gestalterin wird uns die Künstlerin Theresa Schubert zwei ihrer Projekte vorstellen, die Wissenschaft, Technologie, Kunst und Raum verbinden: Always Dead and Alive und Sound for Fungi. Die Kuratorin Sarah Maske kontextualisiert diese Projekte im Zusammenhang mit Prozesskunst und immersiven Rauminstallationen. Moderiert von Katherina von Bülow.

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gewerk in the garden #5: Natur als Gestalterin 

Dienstag, 10. September 2024 // 17:30 bis ca. 20:00 Uhr

gewerkdesign // Atelier im Hof
Niedstraße 17 // 12159 Berlin-Friedenau