ANSELM FRANKE in conversation with ERICH HÖRL and DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN
WHERE ARE WE GOING, WALT WHITMAN?
An ecosophical roadmap for artists and other futurists
Conference — festival that took place from 12–15 March, 2013 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
Gabriëlle Schleijpen, head of Studium Generale Rietveld Academie invited Anselm Franke, Binna Choi, Carolyn Christof – Bakargiev, Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl to each inaugurate a discursive and performative program of one day.
Tuesday March 12:
BLUE MARBLE
The image of planet earth has become an icon of possibly the last utopias of the 20th century: of living in ecological harmony with nature, and of the creation of a borderless world. It transmits visions of one-ness, of wholeness, of a united world, and it popularized both ecological and systems thinking and appeared to support the idea of a post-nation state, globalized and networked society. What does the image of planet earth “want”, what operations does it perform on various ideological and affective registers?
Curator Anselm Franke invited Diedrich Diederichsen, Erich Hörl, Armin Linke, The Otolith Group, Angela Melitopoulos and Flora Lysen to dwell upon these and other questions.
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