Records of Disaster. Infrastructures and material witnesses of climate change
Records of Disaster. Infrastructures and material witnesses of climate change
Records of Disaster. Infrastructures and material witnesses of climate change
29 & 30 April 2022, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art
While infrastructures form the seemingly stable material and logistical basis of our everyday lives, on closer inspection they are fragile constructs. This becomes clear from the regular collapse of networks that supply people with water, heat, goods and information. Increasingly, such collapses are triggered by ecological disasters, forest fires, floods or tidal waves, which at the same time sensitise us to man-made climate change and its local effects as material witnesses of global warming.
The workshop questions the role of infrastructures in and for man-made climate change from an artistic and scientific perspective, while at the same time focussing on them as its material witnesses. How can the infrastructural interplay of political, material and ecological factors be analysed? What sensory, technological and legal forms of translation and mediation determine these entanglements and to what extent are they thematised - or deliberately omitted - in science and art?
Which approaches can be used to thematise places and histories of invisible labour and neglected practices of care? What interactions, but also tensions and interruptions are negotiated in infrastructures, what conflicting forces are they exposed to? And in what ways are people, non-people, materials and things connected or separated by them?
Programme
Friday, 29 April 2022
13:00 - 13:30
Welcome and introduction
Petra Löffler (Oldenburg)
Jakob Claus (Oldenburg)
13:30 - 14:30
Lecture and discussion
Infrastructures in Time. Disruption, Remains, and Maintenance
Gabriele Schabacher (Mainz)
14:30 - 15:00
Break
15:00 - 16:30
Screening and discussion
AAA Cargo (2018, 34 min)
Solveig Suess (Berlin)
Jakob Claus (Oldenburg)
16:30 - 17:00
Break
17:00 - 18:30
Talk and discussion
Prospecting Ocean - Media Infrastructures of the Deep Sea
Armin Linke (Berlin)
Petra Löffler (Oldenburg)
Saturday, 30.04.2022
09:00 - 11:00
Screening and discussion
Ice Cores (2019, 66 min)
Susan Schuppli (London)
Charlotte Bolwin(Weimar)
Jakob Claus (Oldenburg)
11:00 - 11:30
Break
11:30 - 12:30
Lecture and discussion
Cultivating Affect. Reparative Readings of the Colonial Anthropocene
Katrin Köppert (Bochum)
12:30 - 13:30
Break
13:30 - 15:00
Roundtable and final discussion
Moderation: Marie Sophie Beckmann (Oldenburg)
15:00 - 16:00
Guided tour through the exhibition
"Sentient Picnic" by Mohanakrishnan Haridasan (Mochu) at the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art
Registration:
Concept and organisation: Petra Löffler & Jakob Claus
With the collaboration of: Marie Sophie Beckmann