Practices of Alliance Meetup
Details
CCU returns to Instituto Cervantes for a spotlight on our artists in residence, who will introduce their current projects and artistic practices relating to ecology and creative technologies.
Speakers
Nahun Saldaña will develop a site-specific sonic intervention at the Hof van Cartesius that monitors and makes audible the living processes of the space, using local bio-data and low-energy electronics to create a direct, sensory dialogue with the site's biodiversity.
Sounak Das will introduce his artistic practice, which operates at the intersection of image, sound, video, sculpture, installation and technology, with a strong focus on storytelling, bodily experience and audience participation. Enchanted by a deep curiosity for science and spirituality, he interrogates the metaphysical and speculative possibilities of art as a means of inquiry.
In a performative lecture, Miranda Moss and Urs Gaudenz from GaudiLabs will unfurl their art-science research practice of kitsch kitchen bioelectronics, which aims to agitate knowledge hierarchies and shift collective imaginaries around science, technology and regenerative futures. They will show and tell their recent work with organic semiconductors, bioelectric nanowires, plant-based synths and onion circuits.
The conceptual separation between nature on the one hand and humans on the other has destructive consequences. We know ‘nature documentaries’ as a genre that confirms this old paradigm. But what happens if we let go of this separation in a nature documentary? What if human structures are not left out of the picture, but are part of it? And what do we see when a nature film is not about a coral reef or rainforest, but about a building? Audiovisual artist Werner de Valk tries to answer these questions by following a building, the Boomtoren, through the seasons, for one year.
These international residences are situated in the Zoöp ecosystem of CCU: a Zoöp is an organizational model for collaboration between human and non-human life.
Residencies supported by Insituto Cervantes, EUNIC, Zoöp Connections and Amarte fonds.