Join us for this freewheeling conversation between artist, Sahjan Kooner and architect and academic, Anthony Acciavatti, exploring anticoloniality, terraforming* and the future of India. The event will expand on the themes of dankEconogy1_ALIENVillage, a multi-strand project taking place as an immersive installation within Eastside Projects’ main gallery in Birmingham and online on both the UP Projects and Eastside Projects’ websites.
The event will be hosted by Elisabeth Del Prete, Senior Curator (Learning & Live Research) at UP Projects and will delve into the relationships between histories of architecture, ecologies, environmental and social relations in North Indian villages as well as much more.
dankEconogy1_ALIENVillage is co-commissioned by Eastside Projects, Kunsthal Gent and UP Projects and supported by Arts Council England and the Henry Moore Foundation.
To find out more about HONEY, one of the inhabitants of dankEconogy1_ALIENVillage and an online chatbot contaminating and infecting UP Projects’ website, we invite you to click here.
*“The term “terraforming” usually refers to transforming the ecosystems of other planets or moons to make them capable of supporting Earth-like life, but the looming ecological consequences of what is called the Anthropocene suggest that in the decades to come, we will need to terraform Earth if it is to remain a viable host for its own life.” Benjamin Bratton, ‘The Terraforming’, Strelka Press, Moscow, Russia, 2019 (p.5)
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