Conference: Imagine Earth
Imagine Earth will gather internationally prominent researchers, artists and young researchers related to the field of environmental humanities. It will take the form of a two-day conference held at the museum 8-9 June.
Two-day conference 8 & 9 June 2023
The purpose of Imagine Earth is to provide a forum for reflections on the urgent task of developing an aesthetics of the age commonly but also contestedly designated the Anthropocene, focusing in particular on imagining and imaging the earth, its processes and transformations in non-dominant ways. See programme and further introduction below or download programme as PDF.
PROGRAMME
THURSDAY 8 JUNE
08.45-09.30
Registration and coffee
09.30-09.45
Welcome
Poul Erik Tøjner (DK), Director, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Opening remarks
Michael Kjær (DK), University of Copenhagen, and Jacob Lund (DK), Aarhus University
SESSION 1: IMAGINARIES OF THE EARTH
09.45-10.15
Performance: Trajectories
Tone Bjordam (NO) and Marten Scheffer (NL)
10.15-10.55
Keynote: What Earth Imagines
Emanuele Coccia (IT), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
Chair: Jacob Lund (DK), Aarhus University.
10.55-11.15
Response: Susan Schuppli and Q/A
11.15-11.45
Break
11.45-13.15
Presentations
“Tangential to the World at Large”: Images of Earth and Geo-graphy in Cormac McCarthy’s Novels
Stefanie Heine (CH/AT), University of Copenhagen
Moving Image Moving Earth
Elisabeth Brun (NO), Independent artistic researcher
The Changing Temporalities of Imagining in the Age of Planetarity
Jacob Lund (DK), Aarhus University
Moderator: Mikkel Krause Frantzen (DK), University of Copenhagen
13.15-14.15
Lunch in the Boat House
SESSION 2: CRITICAL SENSIBILITIES BEYOND THE HUMAN
14.15-14.45
Artistic Research: Co-creation with other than Human Species
Studio ThinkingHand (AUS/DK), Artists
Chair: Eva la Cour (DK), University of Copenhagen
14.45-16.15
Presentations
Seas Deeper than one can Imagine
Michael Kjær (DK), University of Copenhagen
Post-Future Essayism?
Eva la Cour (DK), University of Copenhagen
A Call to Bear Witness
Christina Varvia (GR), Forensic Architecture, London and Aarhus University
Moderator: Henrik Oxvig (DK), Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
16.15-16.45
Coffee Break
16.45-17.25
Keynote: Sensing Ice: From Cryoception to the CryoSat
Susan Schuppli (CA), Goldsmiths, University of London
Chair: Jacob Lund (DK), Aarhus University
17.25-17.45
Response: Emanuele Coccia and Q/A
FRIDAY 9 JUNE
09.00-09.45
Registration and coffee
SESSION 3: INHABITING A NEW EARTH
09.45-10.15
Artistic Research: Exposed Terrains, Predicted Skies
Nanna Debois Buhl (DK), Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Chair: Ida Bencke (DK), Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, Copenhagen
10.15-10.55
Keynote: Mapping a New Earth: Arts and Sciences as Tools of Exploration
Frédérique Aït-Touati (FR), Sciences Po, Paris
Chair: Michael Kjær (DK), University of Copenhagen
10.55-11.15
Response: T. J. Demos and Q/A
11.15-11.45
Break
11.45-13.15
Presentations
Critical Zones and Thought Exhibitions: Curatorial Experiments Beyond the Anthropocene
Daniel Irrgang (DE), University of Copenhagen
Politics of Hosting, Im/possibilities of Invitation
Ida Bencke (DK), Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, Copenhagen
New Situationism and Architecture
Henrik Oxvig (DK), Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Moderator: Christina Varvia (GR), Forensic Architecture, London and Aarhus University
13.15-14.15
Lunch in the Boat House
SESSION 4 SCALES AND GEOLOGIES OF RESISTANCE
14.15-14.45
Architectural Research: The Anthropocene Museum
Cave_bureau by Stella Mutegi (KE) and Kabage Karanja (KE), Architects, Nairobi
Chair: Martin Søberg (DK), Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
14.45-15.45
Presentations
Doing the Dishes, Making it Okay
Mikkel Krause Frantzen (DK), University of Copenhagen
Small Scales, Large Problems – Sensing the World in a Weed
Line Marie Thorsen (DK), University of Copenhagen
Moderator: Stefanie Heine (CH/AT), University of Copenhagen
15.45-16.15
Coffee break
16.15-16.55
Keynote: Aesthetics of the Illiberal Anthropocene: Cop City, Counterinsurgency, Resistance
T.J. Demos (US), University of California, Santa Cruz
Chair: Michael Kjær (DK), University of Copenhagen
16.55-17.15
Response: Frédérique Aït-Touati and Q&A
17.15-17.25
Closing remarks: Michael Kjær and Jacob Lund