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Talk on the exhibition NEUN BILDER ZUM RECHT AUF KÄLTE with invited guests
The division of the earth - artistic theses on climate change in the Arctic
A student project on artistic research, the construction of images and their relationship to science.
Exhibitors: Tony Bartos, Maximilian Graf, Marlon Meng, Lisa Pahlke, Monika Pieniazek, Dierk Schmidt, Caroline Streck, Maximilian Wolter, Gabriel Weise
The melting of the Arctic ice is increasingly becoming the focus of public attention. According to recent calculations, a large part of the Arctic Ocean could be ice-free as early as 2050 - which would also allow access to previously unused, extensive natural gas and oil resources. In the coming years, the geopolitical interests of the coastal states will go hand in hand with the sectional division of the Arctic deep sea floor. At the same time, this transformation of the Arctic (and Antarctic) is increasingly gaining public attention as an indication, a "fever thermometer" of climate change. Global warming is three times higher here, which generates the immediate demand for the "right to cold" (Sheila Watt-Cloutier, 2015).
In the context of legal, political-cartographic and artistic languages, the project group focused on the historical and contemporary undersea territorial claims around the Arctic and climate change in order to question them as an example of a field of tension between "division" and communitization of a "frontier zone", a supposedly untouched borderland in this century - while simultaneously considering resource policies, climatic changes and international legal principles and agreements.
Accordingly, we conceived our project as a multi-semester process of artistic-scientific research, in which we simultaneously sought interdisciplinary connections and examined the discipline and methodology of artistic research itself. An excursion to Tromsø and Svalbard in October 2022 marked the provisional end point of the research.
The works now created by the participants in the exhibition Nine Images on the Right to Cold address these contexts in concrete examples. At the same time, the works question the construction of images and their own position as well as the relationship and handling of research and appropriation - excerpts from research and conversations can be viewed as a "backstage" part of the exhibition.
Exhibition period:
11.01.2023 - 04.02.2023
Opening hours:
Wed - Sun from 4 to 7 pm
Opening:
10.01.2023 at 7 pm
Talk about the exhibition with invited guests:
Wednesday, 18.01.2023 at 6 pm
Exhibition hall of the Kunsthochschule Kassel
Menzelstraße 13, 34121 Kassel
The exhibition is part of the research project "Kunst Forschung Praxis documenta. Artistic and Curatorial Research at the documenta Institute", Innovation and Structural Development Budget of the State of Hesse (IB-Standard) - period 2020-2022