Ecological Entanglements across Collections - Plant Lives and Beyond - Day 1
Day one will open the discussions with a critical reassessment of environmental thought as inseparable from religious and political constellations, racial and colonial dominations, the arts, the history of science, and plant biology—reflected in Discourses, Imaginaries, and Common Sense.
10:00 | Welcome & Introduction to the Academy by KHI & SPK
Barbara Göbel (Director, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, SPK, Berlin) and Hannah Baader (4_Lab/Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, MPI)
10:30 | Reconfiguring the Botanical Gaze: Fighting Plant Blindness to Embrace Rewilding
Giovanni Aloi (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Moderation and Discussion: Hannah Baader (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, MPI)
11:15 | Maya Cloud Forests and Muybridge Photographs: A Study of Root Memory and the Optical Unconscious
Anna Blume (State University of New York, FIT), Moderation and Discussion: Julia Voss (Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin/Leuphana University, Lüneburg)
13:30 | The Empty Lot: Of Remediating Brownfields and Resisting Vegetation
Peter J. Schneemann (Universität Bern), Moderation and Discussion: Linn Burchert (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich)
14:15 | Aesthetic Impact Assessment, 1949/1969
Etienne Benson (Max PIanck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), Moderation and Discussion: Gerhard Wolf (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, MPI)
16:00 | Presentation: Curating and Creating Relations between Lived Worlds: A Practice-Oriented Methodology for Museum Engagements with Indigenous Communities from Amazonia
Andrea Scholz (Curator for Transcultural Cooperation, Ethnologisches Museum, SPK, Berlin) and Thiago da Costa Oliveira (Research Fellow Ethnologisches Museum, SPK, Berlin), Moderation: Patricia Rahemipour (Institut für Museumsforschung, Berlin)
17:00 | Lecture: Ecological Wisdom for a Collective Future: If We Listen, Plants Will Teach Us
Monica Gagliano (Southern Cross University, Lismore), Moderation and Discussion: Julia Voss (Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin/Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg)
18: 00 | Reception
Welcome by Hermann Parzinger (President, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz)
19: 00 | LECTURE PERFORMANCE : Holding Patterns; An Archive of Atmospheres
By artists and academics Kate Donovan (Berlin) and Ella Finer (London)
An artistic research-exchange project across the Ethnological Museum, Phonogram Archive, and Natural History Museum, Berlin, as well as the British Library Sound Archive and Natural History Museum, London. In cooperation with Maurice Mengel (Head, Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin) and Albrecht Wiedmann (Curator, Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin)
The international Research and Fellowship Program "4A Lab: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics" is a cooperation between the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
- Registration only required for online participation.
- Wheelchair accessible.
Event Location
Forschungscampus Dahlem
Lansstraße 8
14195 Berlin
Deutschland