Instituting Ecologies

Curatorial Fellowship Symposium

Entrance: €7,50 (incl. coffee and tea)
Reservations : reservation [​at​] deappel.nl
Language : English

Initiated with the question of ‘how institutions think’, this symposium will explore the idea of institutions as ecosystems, as well as their possible connections to urgent issues like climate change and future ecological disasters.

Instituting Ecologies will investigate curatorial and artistic endeavors that approach their practice through a questioning of traditional divisions between nature and culture, as well as the inside and the outside of an institution. Artists, curators and researchers are invited to present a multitude of terrains and discuss what an ecological consciousness within those contexts would mean.

How can contemporary art and its practitioners contribute to the current debates concerning the growth-oriented economy, as well as its impact on the natural world, social inequality and climate change? How can an ecological awareness be practiced through contemporary art and interdisciplinary projects? How can inherently human-made institutions be reimagined to include the rights of nature within their modus operandi? Are the divisions of nature and culture – enforced through modernity – still relevant for discussion? What might sustainability within exhibition making or instituting mean? Or is the preoccupation with ecology simply just another metaphor within our contemporary discourse?

Instituting Ecologies is part of de Appel Curatorial Fellowship Programme and curated by Inga Lace, Curatorial Fellow ‘15/’16. This programme is made possible by the Ammodo Foundation.

Programme:

Thursday, October 27

16.00-16.30 Introduction: A Few Notes on the Previous Endeavors of Art with Ecology, Inga Lace, Curator

16.30–17.30 Animals: the Only Real Outlaws, Oxana Timofeeva, Writer, Philosopher

18.00–18.30 Performance Animal Trial by Inga Meldere and Stefano Faoro, Artists



Friday, October 28

11.00–12.00 Roll on, Roll on Phenomena, Eloise Sweetman, Curator, Writer, Researcher

12.00–13.00 On Necessity for Slow Institutions, Natasa Petresin-Bachelez, Curator and Writer

13.00–14.00 Reading: Penumbra, Jason Hendrik Hansma, Artist

14.00–15.00 Lunch break

15.00–16.00 The Parasite, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Writer

16.00–17.00 Conversation: Minor, Meso, Macro, Jennifer Teets, Curator, Writer and Grégory Castéra, Curator, Co-Director of Council

17.00–18.30 Workshop: The Mushroom at the End of the World and Beyond, Simon van der Weele and Hannah Klaubert, Researchers