Das „Gletschersterben“, der Totalverlust der eisigen Welt in den Alpen ist ein präsentes Thema in unseren Medien. Die Ausstellung „calidum glacies – Distanz des Verschwindens“ präsentiert die einjährige Research Arbeit von der Vermessung des Hallstätter Gletschers über die Archivarbeit bis hin zur Betrachtung der Abdeckung der Gletscher, welche als „Skin of the Anthropocene“ bezeichnet wird.
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The "glacier extinction", the total loss of the icy world in the Alps, is a topic that is present in our media. The exhibition "calidum glacies - Distance of Disappearance" presents the year-long research work from the measurement of the Hallstatt glacier to the archive work and the observation of the glacier cover, which is referred to as the "Skin of the Anthropocene".
“Critical Zones”: Developing concepts and approaches for grasping the New Climatic Regime (Bruno Latour), that is the transformations in the relations of humans to their “terrestrial” conditions of existence. – The seminar series of Bruno Latour at HfG analyses these transformations as epistemic breaks and shifts of knowledge by drawing an analogy to the scientific revolution in the 17th century, where, after a crisis of former sound knowledge, new epistemic systems, representations and narrations in art, science, and religion had to be constructed and reintegrated into new dispositifs of knowledge. The project tackles an important aesthetic question, which overpasses simple forms of illustration of knowledge: How central is the imaginary capacity of the arts in constructing representations and narrations that are depictions and “generators” of new knowledge systems and therefore vital means of cultural change?
The exhibition at HfG in November will display some preliminary results of the projects developed by the seminar participants. It presents an opportunity to discuss – in a mode of work-in-progress – research questions, aesthetic approaches and epistemic experiments with colleagues and students of HfG and ZKM.
Opening: Nov 7, 19:00; duration: Nov 8, 10:00-19:00, Nov 9, 10:00-15:00
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