Opening weekend: Assembling Grounds
To kick off Assembling Grounds. Practices of Coexistence, a two-day program of lectures, performances and discussions invites people to reflect on new forms of coexistence in the context of ecological and political upheavals.
What role do the tools of art and global and local cultural knowledge local cultural knowledge play? How can connections be created despite differences and divisions? We also devote ourselves to questions, suggestions and encounters that arose on the journey of the ZKM exhibition "Critical Zones. In Search of a Common Ground" through South Asia (2022-2024).
In addition, Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro continues his long-term project with a performative event on the Katzenwedelwiese at the ZKM, continuing his long-term project based there. In dialog with invited local and international artists, the meadow will be the meadow will be reactivated as a place of multiple knowledge systems, collective exchange and sustainable art production.
Program:
Friday, July 25
4 p.m., Media Theater
Keynote by Sria Chatterjee, Head of Research Initiatives, Paul Mellon Centre London
Introduction and moderation by Daria Mille
The question of how the sentience of plants can be represented has has recently aroused great interest among contemporary artists working artists working in the field of plant science. In this keynote, Sria Chatterjee asks WHY artists are committed to to visualize ideas about the intelligence and consciousness of plants. visible. Where have some of these collaborations between art and science have led to? Do works of art contribute to justice across species when they promote the empathy of the human empathy of the human art audience for plants as agile beings? By these ideas, the keynote opens up impulses for the subsequent subsequent discussions and events on the opening days.
5:30 pm, Media Theater
Panel discussion with Jahnavi Phalkey, Ravi Agarwal, Bettina Korintenberg, Amruta Nemivant Moderated by Mira Hirtz
The panel discussion brings together actors involved in the traveling exhibition "Critical Zones. In Search of a Common Ground" through India and Sri Lanka 2022-2024. We use a brief review of the experiences and themes of this traveling exhibition to then turn our attention to current issues: What role can role can institutions and exhibitions play in making the world a worth living in for humans and non-humans? Which knowledge should be preserved for this, and what formats can be used to be activated?
7:30 pm, Foyer
Exhibition opening
Followed by a performance by Mallika Das Sutar
Saturday, July 26
11 am, Medialounge
Panel discussion with artists of the exhibition
12 pm, Medialounge
Performance by Mallika Das Sutar, artist of the exhibition
12:30 pm, Medialounge
Panel discussion with artists of the exhibition
From 3 pm, Orchard meadow
Events and performances