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Dirk Somers
The lecture will guide you through a heterogeneous series of projects that are developed by associative thinking. Historical precedents mix up with everyday references, generating designs that aspire a densely layered and surprising character.
Reuben Fowkes, Maja Fowkes
Oil Rocks was a magnet for artists who in the 1950s made the strenuous journey to witness the heroism of oil workers in their battle with the elements to extract Caspian “black gold”. This presentation considers the representations of Oil Rocks in socialist art as an exception to the general invisibility of the petroleum industry in modern literature and art. How can we account for the prominence of oil drilling imagery in Soviet Azerbaijani art and what does it tell us about the petroleum imaginary of the Socialist Anthropocene?
Cäcilia Brown
Cäcilia Brown's work explores the structures and hierarchies of public space in the medium of sculpture. Her methods include destructive acts such as burning or throwing something out of a window, as well as copying and archiving. Her works have a fleeting, ephemeral nature and very often contain found or collected elements.
Štěpán Špoula, Tom Muller
Two lectures by landscape architects present possible ways of transformation of greenery in cities. Tom Muller talks about a climate-proof, sustainable, manageable and biodiversity-supportive process that is embraced by the public. Štěpán Špoula presents projects and strategies aimed at a river in the city.
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