Exhibition: Becoming Geological
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.
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)
Dates and Times
Entrance: 6 EUR regular / 3 EUR students
Side Programme & Tours
Friday 23 December, 19:00h: Curatorial tour by Florian Weigl
Thursday 5 January 2023, 20:00h: The Evening of Becoming Geological
Friday 6 January 2023: Guided tour by Rosa Zangenberg (time tbc)
Sunday 8 January 2023 15.00h: Finissage with drinks & curatorial tour by Florian Weigl
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The Evening of Becoming Geological activates and invokes the multiple becomings provoked by the metallic, earthly and cosmic embrace of the geologic.
'We Have Always Been Geological is a panel at transmediale 2023, organized in collaboration with V2_.
Becoming Geological provokes new and ancient imaginaries for the essential relation of the human with the earth and with the cosmos.
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.
We invite everyone to join us for the finissage of the exhibition Becoming Geological. There will be drinks and curator Florian Weigl will give you a guided tour through the exhibition.
Absorption, Saturation, Toxicity, Elimination is a work by Rosemary Lee.
The Iron Ring (2013) is a work by Cecila Jonsson developed at V2_ during the Summer Sessions 2013.
Rosemary Lee is an artist and media studies researcher focused on the history of visual technologies.
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_.
The book 'Becoming Geological' (2022) provokes new and ancient imaginaries for the essential relation of the human with the earth and with the cosmos. Edited by Martin Howse it accompanies the eponymous exhibition.
A mineral exploration co-operative and community committed to the open source exploitation of the interior of the human body for rare earth and other mineral resources.
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