#damian christinger

[marilynlennon]

ILEA TALKS 2022:

"Learning from the Earth"

Responding to the times of planetary crisis caused by the effects of extractive, racial and colonial capitalism, the symposium Learning from the Earth aims to bring us closer to our planet to forge modes of learning from the Earth, including these alternative—at times unlearned or forgotten—ways of listening to other earthly beings. Gathering fourteen speakers representing various perspectives, specialisms, and approaches, the symposium addresses issues of sustainability, biodiversity, the human-animal-plant hierarchy, holism, cosmology, and nature(culture). It asks, what should be learned, and unlearned, in order to create a more ecologically just future and how can artistic practice contribute to these processes? The symposium’s speakers will present contributions that are both commentaries and proposals critically examining the present and suggesting alternatives to the current planetary developments.

KEYNOTES: Ursula Biemann / T.J. Demos / Fernando Garcia-Dory

LECTURES: Ravi Agarwal / Annemarie Bucher / Damian Christinger / Anne-Laure Franchette / Johannes M. Hedinger / Hanna B. Hölling / Catherine Hug / Marcus Maeder / Martin Ott / Dharmendra Prasad / Shazeb Shaikh

[mikasavela]

Happy Tropics No. 1 (2016) by Michael Schindhelm and Damian Christinger with the Zurich University of the Arts.

“Happy Tropics I consists of two parts that run (literally) parallel throughout the book. The first section, “Why Singapore,” focuses on insights from outside the city state, and consists of a conversation between Rem Koolhaas and Michael Schindhelm, an essay by Philip Ursprung, and an artistic contribution by the U5 art collective, among the contributions by the students of the Zurich University of the arts. The second section, “Learning from Singapore,” gives room to different voices from within, featuring interviews with Glen Goei, Beh Swan Gin, Benson Puah, Eugene Tan, and an essay by Gwee Li Sui.”