Anna Pasco Bolta
Anna Pasco Bolta
Deep Echoes
Eröffnung: Freitag, 30. Mai, 20 Uhr Finissage: So. 29. Juni, 15 — 18 Uhr,
Führung durch die Ausstellung mit der Künstlerin 17 — 18 Uhr
Die Ausstellung „Deep Echoes“ untersucht den Ursprung des Lebens, symbiotische Verbindungen und die Materialität der Informationstechnologie, mit einem besonderen Fokus auf den Aufbau von Beziehungen zu unbekannten Lebensräumen wie dem Meeresboden. Die Ausstellung präsentiert die Ergebnisse des ArtWaves Artist-in-Residence-Programms, eine Kooperation mit dem Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg und dem Helmholtz-Institut für Funktionelle Marine Biodiversität an der Universität Oldenburg sowie die Zusammenarbeit mit Guivaudan.
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Workshop Reworlding Systems / Welten im Werden“ am 29. Juni, 15 — 16:30 Uhr Im Workshop wird ein biologisches Archiv aus Erde und Abwässern Bremens erforscht, das nach und nach sichtbar wird. Die Teilnehmer*innen können dabei eigene lebende Skulpturen aus symbiotischen Ökosystemen erschaffen.
Der Workshop ist co-organisiert vom Instituto Cervantes in Bremen
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Podiumsdiskussion: So. 1. Juni 2025, 16 Uhr (in englischer Sprache)
Panel Discussion: Sunday 1st June 2025, 16:00 (language: English
Seabed Imaginaries (knowing distant seabed through representations)
The seabed beyond national jurisdictions, known as The Area, is located on average 4km below the ocean’s surface, and begins around 370km offshore. The Area is a remote and largely unreachable space that nevertheless has been represented and abstracted through a range of media; from storytelling practices and oral histories to scientific imaging processes. This panel considers how these ‘seabed imaginaries’ frame the seabed and the benthic environment, from deathscape to lifeworld to resource deposit and beyond. The panellists will further explore how representations of the seabed have potential consequences, impacting both how we understand a place beyond our personal encounter and the types of futures we envision for it.
Panellists:
Dr Giulia Champion is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. Her project, (Un)Mediating the Ocean: Making the Seabed in Governance, Science, Finance, Culture and Infrastructure, explores questions of just energy transition, in/tangible underwater cultural heritage, and civil society engagement with deep-sea mining negotiations.
Dr Susanne Ferwerda is Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at Utrecht University and member of the Utrecht Centre for Environmental Humanities. Her research on literary and artistic blue humanities, especially climate colonialism in Australia and Oceania, was recently published in Environmental Humanities and Extinction and Memorial Culture (Routledge 2023).
Dr Amelia Hine is a critical resource geographer at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (Alfred-Wegener-Institut/University of Oldenburg). Her research explores power and storytelling in resource and energy futures, with focus on nonhuman and nonliving agencies, volumetric geographies, and particulate and chemical knowability
Anna Pasco Bolta is an artist and researcher based between Munich and Barcelona. Her work examines life’s origins and conditions, focusing on geology, microbial life, deep-sea ecologies, and material entanglements of information technologies. She lectures at the Chair of Art in Architecture at TU München and participated in the 2024 ArtWaves residency, among other national and international residencies and exhibitions.
Moderator:
Dr Kimberley Peters is a human geographer at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (Alfred-Wegener-Institute/University of Oldenburg). Her work focuses on the ocean as a geographical space of governance and how thinking with the ocean enables geographers to reconsider space, time, movement, and territorial control.
This event forms part of the public program for the exhibition ‘Deep Echoes’ by Anna Pasco Bolta, on show at Galerie Herold from 30 May to 29 June 2025.
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