Life & Art is a new program series at V2_ focused around the intertwinement of art and life.
Asking whether art can be lived or a life can be art takes on a new meaning in an age of
genetic technology, financial crisis and living art.
TransAgriculture is a one-day manifestation featuring penetrating introductions to the field,
lectures on guerrilla and avant-gardening, and bioart forms.
Come to the kickoff of the Life & Art series on December 19, during
Life & Art 1: TransAgriculture, 10:00am–5:30pm.
Lectures and action with guests including:
Prof. René Boomkens, cultural philosopher
http://www.rug.nl/staff/r.w.boomkens/index
Bruce Sterling, author
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling
Prof. Natalie Jeremijenko, avant-gardening
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign
Richard Reynolds, guerrilla gardener
http://www.guerrillagardening.org
Michiko Nitta, Extreme Green Guerrilla
http://myportfolio.me.uk/EGGs.htm
Moderator: Sebastian Olma
Life & Art 1: TransAgriculture
Banks are falling, the temperature is rising, the food in our supermarkets is expensive and
can't even be trusted. We are witnessing the bankruptcy of industrialized agriculture and the
notion that we can control nature, culture and society. But think of all the new opportunities
this creates for artists! The processes by which we sustain and shape our lives simply can’t
be controlled from the top down: they work from the bottom up. All modest activities at the
micro scale interact and coalesce into the macro systems by which our world is organized.
Messy actions downstream lead to solid connections upstream.
This new bottom-up paradigm of interactivity, emergence and complexity is now becoming
vitally important in agriculture as well. It strongly informs environmental questions and green
thinking. Urban agriculture, homegrown fashion, advanced bioart and guerrilla gardening are
some of the themes arising. Other tools for gaining access to the self-organization of life are
genetic technology and organic growing. In our research program Life & Art 1: TransAgriculture,
we use today's rapidly transforming agriculture as the starter engine – in a technological, artistic,
social, cultural, political, economic and gastronomic sense – to challenge artists to harness the
full potential of things to come.
Grow your own future!
View Reader texts: http://files.v2.nl/portal/reader_text01.rtf
Location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam
19 December
10:00am–5:30pm
Admission:
Full program including lunch: €20.00 [stud.: €15.00]
Program without lunch: €15.00 [stud.: €10.00]
Reservations:
E: [email protected]
T: +31-10-206-7272
For more information please contact Alex Adriaansens:
E: [email protected]
This event will be streamed live at http://live.v2.nl.
www.v2.nl
