THINKING UNDER TURBULENCE<\/p>\n
GENEVA COLLOQUIUM<\/p>\n
Monday December 7, 2015 – 7pm<\/p>\n
THE ANTHROPOGENIC IMAGE<\/p>\n
Talk by ARMIN LINKE<\/p>\n
With response from Gene Ray for The Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva<\/p>\n
HEAD, Boulevard Helv\u00e9tique 9, 1205 Geneva, seminar room CCC, salle 27, 2nd floor<\/p>\n
How can we read planetary effects of human activities by visual means? What does the image look like that tries to render visible global\u00a0infrastructures which cannot be captured in a single shot? What are the responsibilities of the artist as a filmmaker, photographer,\u00a0conference observer, traveler, reporter, researcher and\/or collaborator to make public the complexities of living inside of environmental\u00a0change? Why do we need to re-think the image and image-technologies when we try to understand the role of the image as situated\u00a0between means of science, NGO-politics, multinational corporations and political institutions? Do images of environmental change of\u00a0anthropogenic conditions bear any special capacity to pry open the grip of \u201cspectacle,\u201d understood as a totality of images become system\u00a0of social control? Is there a possible image, at all and after all, that enables us to read the Anthropocene of a city like Geneva?<\/p>\n
Armin Linke will present his exhibition \u201cThe Appearance of That Which Cannot be Seen\u201d which is currently on display at ZKM Karlsruhe\u00a0and part of the GLOBALE project. For \u201cThe Appearance of That Which Cannot Be Seen\u201d, scientists, theorists and cultural anthropologists\u00a0were invited to engage with Linke\u2019s photographic archive, now comprising more than twenty thousand images documenting the effects\u00a0of globalization, the transformation of cities into megacities, and the interconnectedness of post-industrial society resulting from digital\u00a0information and communication technology. By making their image-selection process transparent, the project thematises both the\u00a0readability of photographic archives and the subjective treatment of themes such as globalization and digitalization, considering the\u00a0individual nature of research approaches and interests. At the interface between the physical and digital world, between exo-evolution and\u00a0infosphere, Linke\u2019s contribution, presented in the exhibitions Infosphere and Reset Modernity! by Bruno Latour, focuses our attention on\u00a0pivotal topics such as smart technology, big data, climate change and Industry 4.0. Furthermore, Linke will briefly elaborate on questions\u00a0emerging from his new individual film project that departs from the collaborative long-term project \u201cAnthropocene Observatory\u201d (with\u00a0Territorial Agency and Anselm Franke); part of his research work is the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) currently taking\u00a0place in Paris, where Linke is registered photographer.<\/p>\n
Armin Linke\u2019s presentation will be commented by Gene Ray from The Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva, a research project reflecting on the\u00a0interactions between social and biophysical systems and processes. Articulating methods and gathering practitioners from the disciplines\u00a0of art, philosophy and architecture, the research project studies the processes and contexts by which anthropogenic global environmental\u00a0change is represented in Geneva as the most cosmopolitan Swiss city as a global infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Armin Linke was born in 1966 and lives in Milan and Berlin. As a photographer and filmmaker he combines a range of contemporary image-processing technologies in order to blur the\u00a0borders between fiction and reality. His artistic practice is concerned with different possibilities of dealing with photographic archives and their respective manifestations, as well as with\u00a0the interrelations and transformative powers between urban, architectural or spatial functions and the human beings interacting with these environments. He was Research Affiliate at\u00a0MIT Visual Arts Program Cambridge, guest professor at the IUAV Arts and Design University in Venice and is currently professor at the HfG Karlsruhe. Solo exhibitions (selection): ZKM\u00a0Karlsruhe (2015); MAXXI, Roma (2010), Museum fu\u0308r Gegenwartskunst Siegen (2009). Group exhibitions (selection): KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin (2015); BAK Utrecht (2015);\u00a0Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade + Centre Pompidou Metz (2014); Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art + Haus der Kunst, Munich (2011); International Architecture Biennale,\u00a0Rotterdam (2010) + Bienal de S\u00e3o Paulo (2008). Prizes: 9. Biennale di Architettura, Venezia + Graz Architecture Film Festival. During 2013 and 2014, Armin Linke, together with Territorial\u00a0Agency and Anselm Franke, was executing the Anthropocene Observatory video series at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.<\/p>\n
Gene Ray, associate professor, has taught Critical Studies at CCC since 2008. He is currently leading the research project The Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva (TAAG) that is affiliated\u00a0with the trans-disciplinary research-based study program at the HEAD. The project investigates into the forms of representation in the era of the Anthropocene with particular focus\u00a0on Geneva. Holder of a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (Philosophy, Art History, Comparative Literature and Film Studies) from the University of Miami (1997), Gene Ray writes on\u00a0the intersections of art, critical theory and radical politics. He is author of Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 & 2010) and co-editor of Art and\u00a0Contemporary Critical Practice: Reinventing Institutional Critique (Mayfly, 2009) and Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the \u2018Creative Industries\u2019 (Mayfly, 2011).\u00a0His essays have appeared in Third Text, Historical Materialism, Yale Journal of Criticism, Brumaria and other journals. A former German Chancellor\u2019s Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt\u00a0Foundation, he has taught at University of Hawaii and New College of Florida and has lectured widely in Europe and North America.<\/p>\n
The evening is the public part of the one-year colloquium \u201cThinking under Turbulence\u201d that frames the curriculum during the transition of the CCC Master Programme in 2015\/16 at Haute\u00a0\u00e9cole d\u2019art et de design in Gen\u00e8ve. Contributors to the Colloquium are invited guests in conversation with CCC-students and faculty members. The one-year Colloquium takes place at\u00a0a transitional moment of CCC, the research-based programme on curatorial concerns in globalizing times and in techno-politics under new direction of Doreen Mende. It will offer time\u00a0to think how such a programme can process itself further and against itself in times of accelerationist imperatives brought by financial global capitalism. The Colloquium departs from\u00a0literally \u201ca speaking together\u201d: from com- \u201ctogether\u201d + -loquium \u201cspeaking\u201d. A speaking together outside\/inside the academy. Therefore, the concept of the Colloquium does not propose\u00a0thinking to be a philosophical method to study a subject matter but departs from a moment under conditions of turbulence when knowledge is in crisis that makes it necessary for us to\u00a0think, to think differently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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