Becoming Geological - Guided Tours
Becoming Geological provokes new and ancient imaginaries for the essential relation of the human with the earth and with the cosmos. Let our public event host Rosa Zangenberg or our curator Florian take you on a guided tour of the exhibition.
Dates
Friday 16 December 19:00h: Guided tour by Rosa Zangenberg
Friday 23 December, 19:00h: Curatorial tour by Florian Weigl
Friday 6 January 2023 19:00h: Guided tour by Rosa Zangenberg
The guided tours are free of charge!
Becoming Geological: The Exhibition
Humankind has always been dirty and harshly geological, through intentional incorporation of earthly and thus cosmic elements (as part of medicinal or spiritual practices), and within a direct connection with a slowly changing earthly and cosmic environment. The earth authors us.
With the arrival of the questionable era of the anthropocene, marking another entry point into the planetary geological, new “natural” cycles are initiated. We literally inhale and ingest our own anthropogenic indicators - for example, as the particulate exhalations of burning forests, as isotopes from nuclear testing, as metallic dust from global extractions. These cycles are embedded in strange feedback loops and complex geo-algorithms informing climate catastrophe, and tense, global ecological conditions. Understanding this new nature for humankind involves a close examination and potential embrace of a becoming geological, becoming a-human.
Becoming Geological thus provokes new and ancient imaginaries for this essential relation of the human with the earth and with the cosmos, invoking becoming metal, becoming earth and becoming cosmic as potential and multiple ways of being and as active philosophies of the earth; an exploration of how to live and die within novel planetary and cosmic techno-cycles.
Becoming Geological: the exhibition marks, traces, invokes and unfolds these multiple routings and cycles of becoming through new and foundational artistic projects from six contemporary artists who interrogate and reflect on the close connections between technological, planetary, cosmic and earthly bodies, particles and imaginations.
Featuring
Alfonso Borragán
Cecilia Jonsson
Rosemary Lee
Anaïs Tondeur
Sissel Marie Tonn
Rosa Whiteley
Curated by Martin Howse and Florian Weigl. Publicity design and images: Alice Cannava, Martin Howse, Martin Sulzer, Antti Tenetz(data)
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Becoming Geological provokes new and ancient imaginaries for the essential relation of the human with the earth and with the cosmos. TAKE NOTE: The exhibition will be closed in the period from 24-12-2022 until 4-1-2023.
The Iron Ring (2013) is a work by Cecila Jonsson developed at V2_ during the Summer Sessions 2013.
Absorption, Saturation, Toxicity, Elimination is a work by Rosemary Lee.
Cecilia Jonsson is an artist from Sweden who lives and works in Bergen, Norway. In 2013 she's a Summer Sessions artist in residence at V2_.
Rosemary Lee is an artist and media studies researcher focused on the history of visual technologies.
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