The inaugural year of Agora: A Gathering of Art and Philosophy by Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève in partnership with Mousse is nearing its conclusion.
The video recordings of the first lectures are now freely accessible online to artists and art enthusiasts worldwide via the Centre’s digital platform, the 5th floor.
Over the course of this free and fully funded online program, conceived by Andrea Bellini and Federico Campagna, nine lecturers and eight students have engaged in weeks of discussions around some of the defining questions of the present: technology and consciousness, materiality and ecology, society and the imagination.
The first edition of Agora unfolds across four modules led by world-acclaimed thinkers and practitioners Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Federico Campagna, Nicolas Jaar, Nora N. Khan, Laura U. Marks, Jota Mombaça, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Hito Steyerl, and John Tresch.
Working across world-building, film, architecture, publishing, archive-making, fiction, performance, and gaming environments, Yasmeen Ayyashi, Tamiris Batalova, Diego González, Camille Kaiser, X.A. Li, Cezar Mocan, Jasmine Pisapia, and Sahej Rahal formed the debut cohort of artists and philosophers selected to attend the lectures and tutorials.
Agora is envisioned as a three-year project and a new cohort of students will be selected each winter. The next open call for participants will launch in autumn, stay tuned!
We hope you will enjoy this first “gathering” as much as we have, and we look forward to receiving your application for the next edition.
The recordings of the lessons are uploaded monthly, watch the first lectures here.
