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"WAND": Local Resources and Craftsmanship for Sustainable Construction

In summer 2024, the exhibition “WAND”, conceived by Olaf Holzapfel in collaboration with the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA), will open its doors in Dessau. This multifaceted project combines contemporary art with traditional craft techniques. Through an artistic installation and participatory processes, it highlights the connections architecture can have with the organic world and sustainable materials.

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Zheng Bo. How Can We Think Beyond Human Exceptionalism?

In this podcast we speak with Chinese artist Zheng Bo about social participative practices, a post-anthropocentric world, the meaning of knowledge in both Western and Chinese culture, and the current political situation in a time of pandemic and multipolarization of powers.

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Andreas Greiner. What can art tell us about life that science cannot?

For this eighth episode, we welcome Berlin based artist Andreas Greiner. His art draws on biology, biotechnology, and questions the impact of humans on other living forms. After studying medicine, anatomy and sculpture he focuses on time-based and sculptural art works.The content of his work focuses on the anthropogenic influence on nature’s evolution and form. He is part of the artist collectives A / A and Das Numen.

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Henrike Naumann. How did objects lose their innocence?

At a time when few people spoke about right-wing violence, it was already on Henrike Naumann’s mind. The artist reacted directly to current events–the resurgence of nationalist violence, and the discovery of the terrorist underground network NSU. She combines secondhand furniture from the 80s and 90s and makes videos which she integrates in her immersive installations. They tell stories of old and new fascism as well as of youth cultures during globalisation.

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As part of a new generation of ecological artists, Greiner shows that art can condense information and find new kinds of representations that shape the viewer. In other words, Andreas Greiner's exhibition is a way to shed the passivity triggered by information overload and develop a lasting curiosity. It gives the imagination access to other beings and cosmologies and allows us to rethink our near and distant surroundings.

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How efficient is art as a tool for the production of alternative forms of knowledge?

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