Exhibition, lectures and workshops with Birgit Schneider, Arne Vogelgesang and JUNCTIONS21
November 10–14, 2021
The invited expert contributors to Urgent Translations examine influential visual media processes and dynamic cultural techniques and how these effect on climate politics, future concepts and political radicalization. What kind of translations and research methods should be considered? Can other options for action be devised from artistic working methods? Which competencies need to be bundled?
IMPACT21 sees itself as an interface for exchanging ideas about effective possible forms of intervention in the face of global challenges.
The medial visualization of the climate catastrophe is one of the research subjects of Prof. Dr. Birgit Schneider, Professor of Cultures of Knowledge and Media Environments at the University of Potsdam. How can images help shape social change in times of ecological crisis? How can they help develop visions for a CO2-neutral society and spark imaginations? To what extent can images change societies' conceptions of the future? Strategies in the dissemination of visual information are also of key interest to the artist Arne Vogelgesang. In his works he examines the aesthetics of radical propaganda and methods of political radicalization on the Internet and reveals how gamification, memes and viral fake news shape political discourse and increasingly intervene in social realities.
As part of the JUNCTIONS21 research programme, 20 artists working in transdisciplinary teams have been exploring the interactions between activism, digitality and ecology. Their processes make translations evident, decode episodes of global historiography and activate marginalized resources between technology and practical knowledge. In focus are intervening and resistant working practices that draw approaches from local and postcolonial contexts. First research drafts will be presented in an exhibition and opened up for discussion in talks.
The artists are working together in seven teams: Bruno Alves de Almeida and Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano; Carmel Barnea Brezner Jonas, Clarissa Aidar, Jere Ikongio and Dario Srbic; Eliana Otta, Imayna Caceres, Nuno Cassola and Vasilikí Sifostratoudaki; Lucy Ilado, Stefania Smolkina and Riyadhus Shalihin; Rosa Whiteley and Sina Hensel; Wisrah Villefort and Sarah Johanna Theurer; Zahra Malkani and Shahana Rajani
Public programme
The programme is free of charge. All lectures take place at PACT and will be streamed live parallely.
Online stream here.
November 11 and 12, 5pm
JUNCTIONS21
Exhibition with projects by Bruno Alves de Almeida and Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano, Carmel Barnea Brezner Jonas, Clarissa Aidar; Jere Ikongio and Dario Srbic; Eliana Otta, Imayna Caceres, Nuno Cassola and Vasilikí Sifostratoudaki; Lucy Ilado, Stefania Smolkina and Riyadhus Shalihin; Rosa Whiteley and Sina Hensel; Wisrah Villefort and Sarah Johanna Theurer; Zahra Malkani and Shahana Rajani.
November 11, 7pm
Birgit Schneider
“Imagining the future in times of climate change between collapse, techno fix and transformation”
Lecture
November 12, 7pm
Arne Vogelgesang
“Let's play info wars”
Lecture
IMPACT21 is a project within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
