Between Spaces, between Lines
During The Shape of a Practice, four case studies presented research that finds ways of moving between places, disciplines, and the lines that connect them. In Part 1 of this archived stream, data analyst Stéphane Grumbach and biologist Olivier Hamant explore solutions to the problem of scientific knowledge being unaligned with global actions on climate policy, and artist Ela Spalding confronts the challenges of connecting scientific and artistic discourses around ecology. In Part 2, researchers Orit Halpern and Johannes Bruder, with artist Karolina Sobecka, present their performative effort to imagine a different world, followed by an ongoing experiment from artist Sandi Hilal that explores the socio-political meaning of hospitality.
Suboptimality
With Stéphane Grumbach & Olivier Hamant
Suelo
With Ela Spalding
The Mont Pèlerin Rewrite
With Orit Halpern, Johannes Bruder and Karolina Sobecka
The Living Room
With Sandi Hilal
Some of the most interesting work on the Anthropocene takes place in between places, in between disciplines, and even in between the lines. These four case studies present research that finds ways of moving between these spaces and the lines that connect them.
As is evident in discussions on climate policy and other matters, scientific knowledge is increasingly mismatched with actions upon global issues. As part of The Shape of a Practice, data analyst Stéphane Grumbach and biologist Olivier Hamant took this problem to task by delving into the concept of “suboptimality” in ecological, academic, and political systems to sketch out how better models and better responses to climate issues can become possible at a system scale.
Moving between Germany and Panama, Estudio Nuboso attempts to connect scientific and artistic discourses around ecology between the two places while confronting the challenges presented with working in two radically different contexts.
The Mont Pèlerin Rewrite is a performative and collective effort to imagine a different world, and a different future, through the creative re-writing and re-interpreting of central economic policy documents written nearly 70 years ago in Switzerland that encode neoliberal ideologies in the present.
The Living Room is an ongoing experiment using living rooms as a space for self representation; a space which has the potential to subvert the role of guest and host and give a different socio-political meaning to the act of hospitality as it concerns the experience of refugees in Europe.
