VOLATILITY

Making Other Worlds against the Extractive Logics of the Capitalocene

The Global Extraction Observatory will be exploring the fables of energy and its impacts and entanglements through a performative lecture. Using images and text, GEO shares their distinctive practice in art and architecture that seek new forms of representation in our era of climatic breakdown.

GEO is in Germany as the first Planetary Transitions Artists in Residence at the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS), supported by the City of Potsdam and the DAAD. They are currently working on the material, cultural and spatial aspects of lithium extraction.

GEO is an Australian spatial research collective examining the effects of energy production and resource extraction through creative practice, scholarship and public engagement. Led by Dr Eduardo Kairuz and Dr Sam Spurr, GEO positions architecture in an expanded field which incorporates diverse methods, narratives and perspectives. This position affords alternative creative approaches to producing new knowledge and amplifying visual culture.

daadgalerie
Oranienstraße 161
10696 Berlin

Admission free

The DAAD Arts and Media program, the City of Potsdam and the Research Institute for Sustainability – Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (RIFS) have launched a new fellowship programme, the ‘Planetary Transitions: Potsdam Artist Residency’. The fellowship is open to artists from abroad or those who have only recently moved to Germany and will be realised at the RIFS. The fellows work on their projects on campus and are supported in networking with researchers at RIFS as well as cultural and scientific institutions in the greater Potsdam/Berlin area.