In a joint online-event of the Russian Ecospheres Network and the Posthuman Studies Lab, participants of the workshop “Post-Soviet Ecologies – Art & Theory” discuss contemporary ecological issues as problems of art and theory. The online workshop took place on December 12th at 6pm (CET).
Workshop Idea
The event consists of three parts: an introduction and presentation, a shared reading of theoretical texts, and a final presentation of contemporary artistic projects related to (Post-)Soviet ecologies.
The workshop is dedicated to ecological and economic projects of the USSR that were directly affected by the so-called Great Plan of the Transformation of Nature, which unfolded between the 1920s and the 1960s. With expeditions to traumatized spaces and locations, with artistic and theoretical work, the Posthuman Studies Lab investigates the history and the formation of Soviet ecology in conjunction with totalitarian discourses of the past and present. We will discuss the main ideological and theoretical underpinnings of such processes as “transformation,” “experimentation,” and “queerification” of nature, initiated in the early USSR and rethought in the recent projects of artists from Russia.
With: Ekaterina Nikitina & Nikita Sazonov
(Posthuman Studies Lab, Munich)
Host: Philipp Kohl
(DFG Network Russian Ecospheres, Munich/Zurich)
Timetable
- 18:00: Introduction (Philipp Kohl) & Presentation Ferations.world Project (Ekaterina Nikitina & Nikita Sazonov)
- 18:30: Reading session (texts by Posthuman Studies Lab, Aleksandr Bogdanov, Trofim Lysenko)
- 19:30: Presentation of contemporary artistic projects (Ekaterina Nikitina & Nikita Sazonov)
- 20:30: End
Watch the full workshop and discussion here:
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"Russian Ecospheres" 