becoming human in post-human times
Symposium at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
June 21–22, 2024
No. 1, Xueyuan Rd, Beitou District
Taipei City
Taiwan 112
Under the motto "Becoming Human in Times of Post-Humanism", artistic and discursive positions of the Angewandte gather at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts. The programme will take place in cooperation with the Taipei National University of the Arts from 21 June – 7 July 2024.
With the symposium on 21 and 22 June, we want to examine the idea of becoming human – which is always a political question – from an interdisciplinary, art-based perspective in which "individuality" is seen as an interactive process of becoming. For this event, panellists from the Angewandte will be travelling to Taipei to engage in direct exchange with their colleagues there.
Zeynep Aksöz Balzar, Margarete Jahrmann, Claudia Larcher, Petra Schaper Rinkel of the University of Applied Arts are in dialogue with Kai-Huang Chen, Yi-Ping Hung, Chien-Hung Huang, Hong-John Lin of the Taipei National University of the Arts. The symposium will be moderated by Alexander Damianisch, Yatin Lin and Louise Yu-Jui Yang.
With artistic contributions by
Zeynep Aksöz Balzer, Amir Bastan, Sonia Bernac, Morgane Billuart, Margarete Jahrmann, Jeremy Keenan, Nicolaj Kirisits, Claudia Larcher, Marianna Mondelos, Noor Stenfert Kroese, Katharina Swoboda
The following two video works, produced as part of the radical⇌matter project, will be featured in the exhibition accompanying the symposium:
Deviations of the Fruit Fly by Sonia Bernac and Jeremy Keenan
A short film about unruly cohesions, narrative clustering and circulation of meaning(s). It uses imagery associated with scientific illustrations and 3D diagrams in order to follow the logic of arbitrary associations. The subsequent environments are set up as experiments – the animated interactions of particles are not choreographed but conditioned by attractors embedded in the surfaces of the models. The sound is generated based on the complex movement and position of the particles in the 3D simulation.
Zoe by Noor Stenfert Kroese and Amir Bastan
ZOE is a temporary co-existence between reishi mushrooms and a custom-made robotic system. Noor Stenfert Kroese and Amir Bastan explore with ZOE the possibilities of internal communication between a robotic system and reishi. Within this seeming paradox between nature and technology, an ecosystem occurs that cares for and affects the other through sensing technologies. It continues onto the research of the interaction and unknown communication within fungal mycelia networks.
