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Reading Anarchism: Lise Autogena Reads Bahrain Youth / The Anarchistic Moment
No full textIn February 2016, BAK, Basis voor Actual Kunst in Utrecht hosted three Reading Anarchism events, as part of Nicoline Van Harskamp's exhibition Unstated (Or, Living Without Approval). The exhibition contained a series of anarchist texts from the online archive theanarchistlibrary.org. For the duration of the exhibition, visitors would browse the library and print and bind copies of books they would like to read.
Six invited guests were asked to pick a book or article from the library to present and discuss with a live audience. The six guests each had a particular affinity with the anarchist tradition, but the works they chose represented entirely different eras, locations and interpretations.
"Bahrain Youth was the name of a group that operated online from 14 February 2011. On that day, now known as “The Day of Rage”, Bahraini youth organised peaceful protests using social media websites, inspired by the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. Thousands of people took to the streets to demand political, economic and human rights, but were forcefully stopped by the authorities"
Artwork on page 8
No full textThis publication functions as catalogue for the exhibition DG15 - 40 Years of Contemporary Glass in Denmark, at Ebeltoft Glasmuseum in Denmark in 2015.
The exhibition documents the last 40 years of Danish glass and shows the direction of Danish glass today through a varied combination of text, historical photos and artworks from the artists represented in the exhibition
Anchoring knowledge; River Ecologies/ Contemporary Art and Environmental Humanities on the Danube
No full textChallenging anthropocentric conventions that seek to harness the river for economic, cultural and political purposes, River Ecologies places the complex ecological materiality of the Danube at the centre of artistic and scholarly attention. Drawing on the insights of artists, scientists, anthropologists, writers and environmental historians, brought together in the experiential setting of the River School, this collective inquiry journeys to sites of urban and natural wilderness to explore issues of reciprocity, resilience, non-human agency and interspecies solidarity. From the confluence of contemporary art and environmental humanities, the artistic and theoretical reflections of River Ecologies flow through the critical habitats of Rewilding Mentalities, Avian Ethnographies, Environmental Histories and Biosphere Responsibility to re-engage with the natural world
Narsaq International Research Station (NIRS)
No full textPresentation at the 2023 Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland - the largest annual gathering on the Arctic, attended by more than 2000 participants from over 60 countries. It is attended by heads of states, indigenous leaders and others from the growing international Autogena’s presentation focused on the need for a holistic approach to designing and deploying new sampling techniques in relation to ecologic study in Greenland, and how co-design and community science can help to achieve this. The presentation focused on Narsaq International Research Station (NIRS) in South Greenland, founded by Autogena in 2020 as a cross-disciplinary research hub. Current research at NIRS addresses human rights, health, climate and environmental protection
Cultural challenges of visualising radioactive waste storage
No full textThis paper introduces the work of the artist James Acord, an American stone carver and artist who campaigned for greater openness and cultural engagement in the long-term dangers posed by nuclear waste storage. Acord felt that the planning of long term radioactive waste storage could not be carried out by science alone, as there were wider cultural issues at stake. Acord promoted the role of art as a historical context, approach and method of addressing the nuclear waste issue.
The presentation provides a brief visual history and overview of Jim Acords engagement with the nuclear industry, from his initial experiments to extract uranium from Fiesta Ware ceramic glaze in the late 1980s to his designs for radioactive waste storage and proposals to transmute technetium 99 to ruthenium 100 as part of a transformative work of art, that he pursued during the 1990s. Following a speech at the FFTF Internationalisation Symposium in the early 90’s, the German company Siemens offered Acord 12 nuclear fuel rods containing depleted uranium from a never operated SNR-300 breeder reactor in Germany. In order to import the nuclear fuel rods, Acord schooled himself to obtain a radioactive materials handling license. He was the only private individual in the world to have such a license, which was tattooed on the back of his neck. It was his ambition to use the nuclear fuel rods, along with transmuted metal, as part of an ambitious scheme to create a warning monument to the nuclear age at the Hanford Nuclear Site in Richmond, Washington, a project that he never realised before he took his own life in 2011.
James Acord’s work as an artist, struggling to create his work in dialogue and collaboration with the nuclear industry during the late 80s and 90s, highlighted the impact of the security and secrecy surrounding the nuclear industry on the wider democratic debate and engagement with radioactive waste storage.</p
Lise Autogena
No full textTogether with Joshua Portway and composer Orlando Gough, Lise Autogena created the Foghorn Requiem in 2013, a community portrait of the maritime North East in the form of a requiem performed by the Souter Foghorn, three brass bands and fifty ships on the North Sea. Lise Autogena will talk about her work aboard the vessel Zeldenrust III, a 28 meter Dutch ex-commercial motor ship on the Thames in central London, urban water space wars, water-based traditions and dreams of alternative futures on the waterways of Europe.
Mobile Ecologies took place as part of the Art Moves exhibition held in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Mobile Ecologies brought together a diverse range speakers who initiated mobile projects which have a broader ecological interest. A series of short presentation will be followed by a discussion, highlighting the ecological ambitions behind the projects and explore the cultures and practices of 'doing things mobile'.
Speakers included: Lise Autogena, Pilot Publishing and Umi Baden-Powel
Foghorn Requiem : a celebration of a sound
No full textIn 2013 more than 50 ships gathered on the North Sea to perform an ambitious musical score, marking the disappearance of the sound of the foghorn from the UK’s coastal landscape. More than 8000 people experienced the event created by the two artists Joshua Portway (UK), Lise Autogena(DK), in collaboration with the composer Orlando Gough (UK) and maritime communities in the North East of England
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