Moderation: Tatiana Kourochkina (RU)
Speakers: Joaquin Fargas (AR), Daniel López del Rincón (ES), Maja Smrekar (SI)
Seit seiner Gründung hat Quo Artis eine Reihe von Projekten in verschiedenen Größenordnungen entwickelt, die darauf abzielen, auf Klimadringlichkeit und Ökologie aufmerksam zu machen. Der Runde Tisch bietet die Gelegenheit, die Werke der Ausstellung Postnature. The Future is Present in einen Kontext zu stellen und gleichzeitig über das kreative Potenzial von Kunst und Wissenschaft nachzudenken, um eine Flucht in eine nachhaltigere Zukunft zu ermöglichen.
Biografien:
Moderation: Tatiana Kourochkina (RU)
Tatiana Kourochkina is the Co-Founder of Quo Artis, a non-profit organization that aims to promote international artistic projects based on scientific ideas. Concerned with the environment, in 2017 Quo Artis produced an expedition to Antarctica featuring artists and scientists, to draw attention to the thaw of what is the largest existing freshwater reserve on Earth. This project obtained the patronage of UNESCO. In 2020 Quo Artis will bring artists and scientists to Galápagos Islands.
Speakers:
Joaquin Fargas (AR)
Argentine artist, and founder and director of the Exploratorio, Arts, Science and Technology Center in Buenos Aires, and director of the LatBio Lab (Latin American Bioart Lab). Fargas focuses his artistic production at the intersection of science, art and technology, proposing utopias on the preservation and interrelation of all living beings. He has participated in events such as the Havana Bienal (Cuba) and exhibited in the Galileo Galilei Planetarium (Buenos Aires, Argentina), San Martin Theatre (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Recoleta Cultural Centre (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Fargas’ most emblematic work, “The Biosphere Project” was exhibited worldwide.
Daniel López del Rincón (ES)
Doctor in Art History and professor at the University of Barcelona. His research and teaching focuses on art from the 20th and 21st centuries and, particularly, on the analysis of the relationships between art, nature and science. He is the author of the book “Bioarte. Arte y vida en la era de la biotecnología” (Akal, 2015), among others, as well as curator of the exhibition “Postnaturaleza” (Ethiopia, Zaragoza, 2018) for the European Network of Art and Science.
Maja Smrekar (SI)
Maja Smrekar’s (SI) work has been established in the international art and science milieu, based on interdisciplinary research of the developments and application of ideological structures in contemporary society. Grounded in sculpture, Smrekar’s practice has allowed her to lead strong collaborations in developing cross-conceptual productions that include installations, performances, site specific art, drawings, videos, sound, workshops, lectures, talks and texts. Among other, she received the Prix Ars Electronica – Golden Nica 2017 Award in Hybrid Art. Smrekar lives and works between Ljubljana (SI) and Berlin (DE).
