
Techno-Ecologies and Bodies of Memory: The Environment as Battleground is a multilayered exhibition that develops through satellite spaces and artistic interventions, extending across geographies and media.
The project looks at the environment as a contended, contested, and torn arena, in which political, social, and economic forces and tensions converge and conflict. The environment is a network in which individual elements influence each other in a complex way, and natural and human habitats compose an interrelated system.
Within this framework, technology must be understood as a complex assemblage in which the boundaries between the natural and the artificial collapse. Amidst the global environmental crisis, wars, and ongoing genocides, the exhibition navigates the complexities of the bonds between all connected forms of matter on our planet. In particular, it explores more-than-humans as sites of memory.
Within this framework, it critically examines the part played by digital technologies, and the ambivalent ways it shapes the relationships between organisms and their ecosystems, as well as the governance and preservation of data.
A variety of artists working with different languages, such as photography, game, drawings, video, immersive environments, text, sound performance, and sensory body explorations, look at histories kept secret and memories invisible or in transformation.
The artworks included in the exhibition critically reflect upon the modes by which colonialisms and imperialisms have performed domination and oppression on and through the environment over time. The artworks point at cases of environmental abuse that remain untold and unrepaired, which span across times, geographies, and communities.
Within this framework, the exhibition proposes different artistic perspectives and voices on questions such as: how do natural entities as bodies rewrite memory? What roles do digital technologies and the politics of data play in this process?
- Techno-Ecologies and Bodies of Memory: The Environment as Battleground is a project of Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien curated by Marianna Liosi.
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Accessibility
The building and the exhibition rooms are structurally barrier-free for people with wheelchairs or other walking aids.